Should I get an iPad or...? - Page 3

murraypaul · 08-03-2010, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

How about books already purchased for another reader, the Sales assistants were incorrect (I think), but what app would allow them to be read if downloaded to an iPad ?

Hmm.
For Sony/generic Adept books you could read then in txtr, but that isn't a native iPad app, so doesn't look great.
Kindle books would just appear in your library when you ran the app, don't know if the same is true of the other bookseller apps.
Someone has just posted a way of sideloading into the Kindle app without jailbreaking, but apart from that there in no way to get content into the bookseller apps (other than iBooks) except through the app itself.

rblover · 08-06-2010, 03:22 AM

The iPad can do all sorts of things-email, photos, etc-that would be handy... IF I didn't already have it all on a laptop computer. Since I have such capabilities on my laptop, I don't need them on a reader. As such, I can't see paying the higher iPad price to get capabilities I won't use on the iPad because I already have them on the laptop.

From what I hear lately, the iPad screen is strongly backlit...making for glare, and eyestrain. I don't want that...surely not enough to pay extra for it.

Have any of you iPad owners spent 4 hours straight reading an e-book on it without experiencing glare, or eyestrain?

MangaEbooker · 08-06-2010, 03:45 AM

Have you looked into the Notion Ink Yet?

It has a ebook mode : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLEtIOBdRIM

Here is the info: http://gizmodo.com/5471559/notion-in...pecs-finalized

I would wait on it but it might be to late if you bought an Ipad already.

murraypaul · 08-06-2010, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murraypaul

Hmm.
For Sony/generic Adept books you could read then in txtr, but that isn't a native iPad app, so doesn't look great.

To update myself, txtr is now a native iPad app, so Adept books can be read full screen.

GeoffC · 08-06-2010, 06:21 AM

mutters quietly .... moping with my mobis ....

murraypaul · 08-06-2010, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

mutters quietly .... moping with my mobis ....

Unencrypted mobi files can be read with the Bookshelf app. Amazon-purchased Kindle books will appear in the Kindle app when you first sync it. For DRM'd mobi files from other sources, could can sideload them into the Kindle app, but only if:
a) You have a Mac, and any iPad, including non-jailbroken, or
b) You have a jailbroken iPad

GeoffC · 08-06-2010, 07:52 AM

okay, I'll go with unencrypted mobi files - if and when

nursedude · 08-06-2010, 08:10 AM

I don't have any problems reading on my iPad for sustained lengths of time. I have set iBooks to use sepia as the background instead of white and find that helps. Last night I read from the time I got home until bedtime (5 hours) and didn't hav any ill effects.

For comics I find cloudreaders to be a good app.

pina · 08-06-2010, 09:27 AM

I have my iPad now for about a week and I'm very statisfied with it. Especially since it can do so much more than my primary needs. Reading comics is really good and PDF's open very fast. It's very very multifunctional, even educational for children (solving puzzles, memory etc...).

The only thing I dislike is the way it transfer files, syncing apps with itunes etc...

I also don't encounter any problems at reading on the ipad. I guess my eyes are used to it after more than a decade using computers.

08-06-2010, 03:22 AM	#32
rblover Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 26 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none as yet	iPad Considerations The iPad can do all sorts of things-email, photos, etc-that would be handy... IF I didn't already have it all on a laptop computer. Since I have such capabilities on my laptop, I don't need them on a reader. As such, I can't see paying the higher iPad price to get capabilities I won't use on the iPad because I already have them on the laptop. From what I hear lately, the iPad screen is strongly backlit...making for glare, and eyestrain. I don't want that...surely not enough to pay extra for it. Have any of you iPad owners spent 4 hours straight reading an e-book on it without experiencing glare, or eyestrain?

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GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	okay, I'll go with unencrypted mobi files - if and when

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nursedude Zealot Posts: 131 Karma: 17102 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo (Original), KT, iPad 1, iPhone 4S, iPad 3rd gen	I don't have any problems reading on my iPad for sustained lengths of time. I have set iBooks to use sepia as the background instead of white and find that helps. Last night I read from the time I got home until bedtime (5 hours) and didn't hav any ill effects. For comics I find cloudreaders to be a good app.

08-06-2010, 09:27 AM	#39
pina Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none yet	I have my iPad now for about a week and I'm very statisfied with it. Especially since it can do so much more than my primary needs. Reading comics is really good and PDF's open very fast. It's very very multifunctional, even educational for children (solving puzzles, memory etc...). The only thing I dislike is the way it transfer files, syncing apps with itunes etc... I also don't encounter any problems at reading on the ipad. I guess my eyes are used to it after more than a decade using computers.

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