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Originally Posted by neilmarr
With the best will in the world to Apple and those who need or want the iPad, my dream when I first started with ebooks twelve years ago was a simple, single-function, ebook-dedicated reading device no bigger than a paperback.
My dream came true. I already have a powerful PC with a huge monitor, a 17" laptop and a netbook. And -- for recreational reading -- I have my wee, easy-on-the-eye Sony PRS 505 with a whole library in there.
For me (sorry, Harry -- but surely a forum is about personal views -- the iPad is actually a step backwards for ebook reading, taking the onus off ebooks and offering a dozen distrations ... at a price.
Give the world something like the 505 -- even the Kindle -- bubble-wrapped at the supermarket checkout for sixty bucks, price ebooks fairly, and there will be an explosion in reading.
Cheers. Neil
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whilst I agree in theory and love my sony 300 for NOVEL reading it sucks at technical ereading, comic ereadingMagazine reading and web ereading.
Ereading isnt just novels.
so for ereading the iPad is better and more flexible.
for reading my next novel i will be using my PRS300