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Originally Posted by HarryT
The iPad is a joke? Why do you say that? The iPad is perhaps the most versatile reader around at the moment from the viewpoint of the number of different reading applications available for it. For reading and annotating PDFs it's especially good. The screen is superb. I'd honestly suggest that you use one before writing it off in that way.
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Forbes gives 5 reasons why the Ipad is a joke compared to the Amazon Kindle, for instance, but the main one that stands out to me is this one :
"--IPad's LCD vs. Kindle's ugly, practical screen
Sure, the E-Ink that the Kindle's black and grey screen uses is likely years away from the video and color capabilities of the iPad. But for reading, it works--in some ways better than the iPad's LCD screen. The Kindle's passive, reflective screen technology uses only ambient light and is readable in bright sunlight. Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos has described reading on an LCD backlit screen, by contrast, as "shining a flashlight in your eyes." That's fine for composing an e-mail, browsing photos or surfing blogs, but doesn't work as well for hours of immersive reading. "
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/27/ama...rk-kindle.html
Sorry, but no serious reader of ebooks can consider an LCD based reader as anything but an utter complete joke. So, yes, if you intend to read full books, made up of hundreds of pages, like I do, the Ipad is a shiny, flashy, multimedia piece of crap. I can't see how ebook readers can take it seriously since it can't compete on the same level. The thing is obviously not made for book reading but for multimedia and stuff. Steve Jobs' outlook is or was that "no one reads books anymore". That idiot couldn't be anymore wrong. Most of us here are a living testament against that proposition. I'm currently reading a 281 page book on my prs-505 and just finished a 500 some page one. The next book I plan to read is a practical one over 1,000 pages. Try doing that on an Ipad and you will quickly change your tune.