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Originally Posted by jocampo
@mgmueller
I don't know exactly what kind of books you read or like, but one of things I did not enjoy of that Kindle for webOs version is that there is no "true landscape" mode. In other words, when you are in landscape mode, the page is divided and gives the illusion of a real book with two pages side by side. For a novel, that's fine. But if you read computer or programming books, that basically defeats the purpose of the landscape mode and makes really difficult to read the code.
I will cry really loud, if Kindle decided to do the same on the iPad application. If that ever happens I guess I will have to go back an get a Kindle DXG or a 10" Android tablet.
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What you describe is one of the (many) reasons, why I've never been able to decide for a single reader.
Basically, I read 2 types of books:
a.) Casual reads, your average Jeffery Deaver and such.
b.) "Professional" books, such as management books, self help, psychology, ...
For a.) I don't care that much about format or layout or display size of the reader. For now, I mainly read those on BlackBerry PlayBook, as I simply love the form factor, weight, display quality and the likes. Before that, it was Kindle DX. I always liked Kindle DX better than its smaller sibling, although the bigger display wouldn't be necessary for the kind of books I've read on it.
For b.) I care more about layout of the pages or how to sort the content. I've loved the concept of iRex, touch screens can be helpful for marking text passages or using the dictionary.
For neither books I like the column view, I don't see any use for it.
Sony 900 praised it, but I never could make any use of it.
I'm not side loading into the Kindle app. For the type of books I buy from Amazon, the cloud reader is great. But I don't want to rely on a single reader app and a single source for buying books.
For now, I have no idea what to make of HP TouchPad. I haven't used it so far (maybe 5 hours in total for installing some apps and initially testing the OS). As a "naked" tablet, it easily beats iPad. But what good is that without apps?
And as sole ebook readers, I never got fond of tablets. I don't have a problem with glare of the display. But I don't like the battery duration and the weight. And I don't see any advantage of, let's say, iPad2 as a reader in comparison to, let's say, Kindle DX.
I accept the argument "I've got my tablet with me anyway, so I might as well read on it". But if I don't have any additional use for the tablet, this kind of defeats the purpose and the argument...