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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Because there were requests to open this thread, I am doing it. Hlowever, keep it on topic and stop flaming. This applies to anyone who is reading this, so don't say to yourself "Well, I certainly am not who he is talking about!" There will not be a play nice message, just closing.
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Thanks, pshrynk!
Getting back to the OP:
Reading on the iPad was the application I was hoping and yearning for - and wanted so much to like. However, when I first saw the iPad, my reaction caught me off guard... ("it is too big... weighs too much.. not sure about that backlit screen... etc. etc.). I was accustomed to my Sony and the iPad seemed unwieldly and awkward compared to that.
But my wife fell in love with it. So I bought one for her. And I discovered that I liked it too... but could not get more than five minutes with it! My persuasive powers with my wife failed me - I just couldn't get time alone with it. What to do?
So after a few weeks, I got one for myself - and gave reading another try.
And what I've learned is that, although other apps brought me to the iPad (Plants vs Zombies, Safari and later Atomic Browser & iCab, Email, New York Times, Photos, Videos, Chicktionary, etc) - reading has taken its place in my list of most favored apps.
I think you have to give it a good chance - I sampled reading with "Alice" and with "Pooh" and iBooks - and it didn't do much for me. I wasn't really reading - I was more or less just examining text on the screen - and with a critical eye!
However, when I added the Kindle app - and purchased a book I really wanted to read ("With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge), I found that great book, combined with the comfort of night mode, got me where I wanted to go - immersed.
Because when the material is good, and the environment is conducive, a good book will make the device disappear - it will make everything else disappear, also - and you're transported, as only a book can do.
And that's what I want most in a device - something that makes it easy to get to that "place" that a book can take you. The iPad does that.
I'm glad I gave it a fair trial with great material.
-- Rique