Originally Posted by asciibaron
the iPad falls short in three important ways compared to the Kindle 4 NT.
1 - screen glass glare - reading in a office setting is tough, but reading in sunlight, ugh!
2 - weight/form factor - the iPad is simply too heavy and too large to hold comfortably
3 - LCD fatigue - my eyes really start to bother me after 30 minutes of looking at the LCD.
a final, and very important issue is the inability to add a title to the collection from just about anywhere. i am in the IT industry and have to read a ton of white papers in PDF format. dropping them into Calibre, converting to MOBI and uploading them at the office onto the Kindle is as trivial as sending it an email.
getting the same PDF's on the iPad from a computer other than the one linked in iTunes requires some kludging to have them readily accessible. not a trivial matter at all.
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