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Originally Posted by eGeezer
However, unless I were trying to read technical publications requiring "full size page" viewing, it would not see much use in the way of ereading.
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If you confine the definition of "ereading" to books, your point has some force. The primary argument against it would be that the Pad will most likely allow the owner to avoid file format & DRM problems because the various apps will allow him or her to get an ebook from any provider. But the cost factor, compared to the smaller ereaders, will still be in play.
But if you read more than books - if you read newspapers, magazines, blogs, articles of all sorts - then the Pad as an ereader makes much more sense.
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Personally, I think the majority of folks buying an iPad will be folks who wouldn't have purchased a dedicated ereader (and will have purchased it -- the iPad -- for other reasons), anyway, and will get into ereading because Apple will be pushing (hyping) the ability.
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I share that opinion, up to the point where you add the bit about "will have purchased it ...for other reasons." Had the Pad been available this time last year when I first acquired a dedicated ereader, I would have had the Pad. To read books on.
I think a lot of people who own dedicated ereaders right now are going to move to the Pad, thinking that they are going to continue to use the ereaders. But gradually, they'll find that more & more of their reading is done on the Pad. The Kindle readers will be most likely to use both, because of the sync factor.
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Eventually, those who would have gotten into ereading to replace paperbacks sometime in the future will realize the limitations of the iPad for ereading and will end up buying an e-inker, or whatever unforseen technology that may replace it in the next 10 years, anyway.
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I think that they will buy an iphone or a Touch rather than a dedicated ereader - assuming that they buy anything. This is because one can duplicate the reading environment - apps, books - on the Touch, which becomes a kind of stripped down satellite version of the Pad.