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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
An iPad tablet runs $629 with 3G; a Kindle for less than half that. An iPad tablet runs $499 with just WiFi; a Kobo for a third of that. Plus most people I've talked to are opting for the 32 GB model iPad (it is for multimedia playback primarily); so add at least $100 to the price above. And, in the medium term, the gap will grow.
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True, but the price comparisons only work if one is buying the iPad to do nothing but read on.
And I think very few people are buying iPads only to read on, or even primarily as readers.
I want a Tablet for a variety of reasons. Reading is part of it--especially reading letter sized PDFs for work. But more of my use would be net surfing, e-mail, videos etc. I'd just also use it as my novel reader as I just don't really need to keep a dedicated reader around to read a book or two a month.
But yeah, if someone just wants to read straight text, the iPad doesn't make a lot of since price wise. If they want to do some reading, surf the net, watch videos, read magazines, comics, newspapers, PDFs etc. in addition to straight text novels, then it (or a future tablet) may be worth the extra cost.