this is going to be a FANTASTIC little device and an amazing eBook reader. you'll have both Stanza, Kindle and Nook (barnes & noble) applications on their to read most of your books and if there are any left out, i'd bet very good money that they'll be added and supported by yet-to-be-released apps. there's NO WAY that apple would not approve iPad apps that view other eBook formats not natively supported by the iBooks app itself on the iPad.
so you've got a gorgeous LCD screen, a top notch interface, variable backlight for reading in low light (reading in bed anyone?). how is this not a killer eBook reader?? and its only $499? any eBook readers priced $250+ are going to seriously need to slash their prices because the iPad is going to be a fantastic eBook reader and then it'll do SO SO much more that it just blows the other eBook readers out of the water.
personally, i've been eyeing several eBook readers over the past few months, but something told me i should wait until apple announced their tablet (the iPad). now i'm really glad i did. if i didn't have much money to spend, i'd probably look at a refurbished or used PRS-300. otherwise its the iPad hands down.
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Originally Posted by deltop
No flash is dissapointing but as long as I can get my collection of de-drm'ed epubs onto it and read my comics I'll be buying one. And it'll be great for browsing the web in bed.
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flash is terrible. personally i find lack of flash to be a major plus. flash sucks. if you want the iPad to crash a lot and slow way the heck down, put in flash. flash on some android phones is laughable. the iPhone and iPod Touch have been void of Flash support for 2.5+ years and they dominate the market anyway. HTML5 is also helping to bring an end to flash ubiquity on the web.