Sigh its so poor. I understand that you can argue about backlight some people seem to have and some people don't seem to have. But there is one issue what makes the iPad the biggest looser in every reader contest which is just fact.
Yesterday we had the best weather here. Sunshine all along. DREAMWEATHER. So you move outside and you see NOTHING. Pretty sure the usual people will swear they can see everything in the direct sun just have to change the viewing angle but this is just BS.
The other will tell you that they never read in direct sunlight. Fine. Good for the vampires between us but when there is good weather and i have much time for reading i don't want to sit inside the house cause of my super duper reader. Would be really ironic if after Steve Jobs tries to tell me what to read he now also should be able to tell me where and when to read
So the one thing which can not argued away is iPad outside + sun = no go.
Don't want to sound harsh but anybody who denies that fact has to be a fanatic fanboy.
That would maybe be the nr. 1 reason for me to always prefer the DX over the iPad.
But if i am honest, i like my iPad very much. So if you can afford the best will be keep your DX for reading and get a cheap 16GB Wifi iPad.