iPad Anyone else NOT like reading on their iPad?

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by Bremen Cole

Good luck 5 years from now finding a device that is just an eBook reader....

you will. the bargain bin at best buy..

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Tamara

Hmmm. I can read electronic books on my iPad so it seems to function as an ereader.

Actually, it could run eReader. But that app has not be updated for the iPad and I don't think it ever will.

I can read a book on a digital photo frame by making images of a book. But that still doesn't make it a reader. I can read eBook using my desktop computer. Its still not a reader.

[Trubu]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, it could run eReader. But that app has not be updated for the iPad and I don't think it ever will.

I can read a book on a digital photo frame by making images of a book. But that still doesn't make it a reader. I can read eBook using my desktop computer. Its still not a reader.

I hope that if you ever refer to xeroxing or kleenex or linoleum or a trampoline or aspirin that you are ONLY referring to the properly trademarked brand names of those products. And I'm sure you know better than to refer to electronic messages as e-mail - a term that was trademarked by CompuServe and should never be used in a generic fashion.

Life is hard for the literally-minded.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Trubu

...

Life is hard for the literally-minded.

Yes it is.

[Bremen Cole]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, it could run eReader. But that app has not be updated for the iPad and I don't think it ever will.

I can read a book on a digital photo frame by making images of a book. But that still doesn't make it a reader. I can read eBook using my desktop computer. Its still not a reader.

Something that I learned long ago is the it can be extremely difficult to define something. We use our word symbols to name objects, but often they collapse under even a little scrutiny. Now in our electronic age, the same thing is true of our devices. Used to be a TV was, well, a TV. Today it may be a TV, a movie viewer, a picture viewer, a video game monitor, a computer monitor............

[Sonist]

Originally Posted by scottjl

oh it functions as one, and a word processor, an email client, a web browser. as I've said, i'd call it a media tablet long before I'd call it an ereader.

So, should we vote for getting rid of the iPad section on mobileread, since this is an ereader forum...?

[Bremen Cole]

Originally Posted by Sonist

So, should we vote for getting rid of the iPad section on mobileread, since this is an ereader forum...?

True, except.... what is an eBook reader? Is Kindle a eBook reader? If so, than an eBook reader is defined as a portable electron device that plays MP3 music, has internet connectivity, plays some games and has a physical keyboard......

Perhaps it would be better to call the forums here at MR something like .... forums for portable electronic devices that can be used to view the content of what is commonly called eBooks......

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by Sonist

So, should we vote for getting rid of the iPad section on mobileread, since this is an ereader forum...?

if you want to lead the campaign for it, go right ahead. that's your call.

better ban the kindle too.. oh.. and the nook.. hmm. my 600 played mp3 files.. dirty, filthy thing.. guess you won't be getting any forums for those android tablets you champion.

[kjk]

Wait, there is an iPad section here?

[Rique]

Originally Posted by scottjl

if you want to lead the campaign for it, go right ahead. that's your call.

better ban the kindle too.. oh.. and the nook.. hmm. my 600 played mp3 files.. dirty, filthy thing.. guess you won't be getting any forums for those android tablets you champion.

Well, it's mobile read forums and I use my Sony or my iPad to read when I'm, ahem, mobile.

Enough said!

-- Riq

[Rique]

Originally Posted by kjk

Wait, there is an iPad section here?

There should be!

[kjk]

And, all joking aside...of the 20-some device forums on Mobileread-how many of the manufacturers/products have their own dedicated eBook store?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kjk

And, all joking aside...of the 20-some device forums on Mobileread-how many of the manufacturers/products have their own dedicated eBook store?

Let see... Sony, Kindle, Nook, Asktak, txtr, iRex, eBookwise, oh and the iPad thingy.

BOb

[Bremen Cole]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Let see... Sony, Kindle, Nook, Asktak, txtr, iRex, eBookwise, oh and the iPad thingy.

BOb

Wow, is that all? I thought all of them did.... but I have only had experience with Kindle, Sony and iPad........

[kjk]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Let see... Sony, Kindle, Nook, Asktak, txtr, iRex, eBookwise, oh and the iPad thingy.

BOb

So now we know which other forums to kick off