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I'm looking forward to the iPad mainly as a remote administration tool. There are some really amazing Remote Desktop and VNC apps for the iPhone/iPod touch - the iTap apps in particular use some very clever methods to make RDP/VNC useable with such limited screen real estate - but it should be a much better experience on the iPad's larger display. I work from home part-time and it'll be great to have an instant-on device with a large screen that I can use to jump on servers or user's desktops without always having to be tethered to my desk or dragging a laptop around. This is especially attractive considering that I spend part of each day watching a toddler, and will soon be adding a newborn to the mix - I need something easily portable with no wires and a minimum of moving parts to deal with.
On a semi-random sidenote, I love the case that Apple came up with - it allows you to sit the iPad either vertically or reclined in both portrait and landscape modes, so you can adapt it to whatever you're doing at the moment. Really clever design.
I'm also looking forward to using the iPad as a PDF and comics viewer, and an audio/video player, and a recipe book in the kitchen, and a games machine, and a couch-surfing device, and a digital photo frame, and a portable iWork machine, and on and on. Despite the naysayers, I think it's going to be really flexible and capable device, especially once developers have had time to really tune their apps for it.
For reading books, though, I'll probably use the iPad much like I use the iPhone now - reading a few pages here or there and then picking it back up on the Kindle later when I have time to devote more than few minutes to reading. (Sync to Furthest Read Point FTW! God, I love that feature.) There's still something about the resolutely single-purpose devices like the Kindle, with their dull gray screens and lack of distractions, that appeals to me for reading.
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