Thread: What does the iPad mean to the eReader market?
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Old 01-29-2010, 05:41 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by astra View Post
If I were to buy ebook reader with 10" screen to read tons of IT ebooks in PDF it would be eInk only. I cannot read those PDFs on my laptop, netbook, desktop because I get eye strain.
Forget about battery.
The display technology in the iPad is better than that in your laptop or desktop monitor (most likely). It's LED backlit IPS. By all accounts (everyone who has had hands on loves the screen) it looks incredible, so if eye strain was the main reason for skipping it, perhaps go into an Apple store and look at the different in quality first. It's a far better screen than most LCD monitors.

http://www.displaysearchblog.com/201...he-apple-ipad/

That being said, if you need a device for IT books, e-readers are terrible already. I usually just read them on the laptop because I usually need to play with the code in the books and copy chunks of text.
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