Kindle Christmas Explosion

[ianw]

Originally Posted by asciibaron

the iPad falls short in three important ways compared to the Kindle 4 NT.

1 - screen glass glare - reading in a office setting is tough, but reading in sunlight, ugh!
2 - weight/form factor - the iPad is simply too heavy and too large to hold comfortably
3 - LCD fatigue - my eyes really start to bother me after 30 minutes of looking at the LCD.

a final, and very important issue is the inability to add a title to the collection from just about anywhere. i am in the IT industry and have to read a ton of white papers in PDF format. dropping them into Calibre, converting to MOBI and uploading them at the office onto the Kindle is as trivial as sending it an email.

getting the same PDF's on the iPad from a computer other than the one linked in iTunes requires some kludging to have them readily accessible. not a trivial matter at all.

You mean aside from emailing them to yourself, and saving.
or sticking them in drop box?

I'd say the one thing that the ipad beats the pants off the kindle is for pdfs which suck dead things on the kindle, but with quick zoom move and resize are readable on the ipad.

For the other 3, vs an ebook reader, you're spot on.

[Huey4prez]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I thought that having read the Harry Potter series and seen the movies had tought me all I needed to know about modern British slang, but I had to google "Blighty' to understand your post. We never seem stop learning! But that's a good thing.

You googling 'Blighty' has made me google it too, as I also felt I had British slang down with my overconsumption of Harry Potter. Ah, now I am in the know....

[captkjaneway]

Originally Posted by Huey4prez

You googling 'Blighty' has made me google it too, as I also felt I had British slang down with my overconsumption of Harry Potter. Ah, now I am in the know....

Sorry folks - as well as being an East Londoner, (we speak even funnier than the rest of the UK), I am also a Smiths fan, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" (1917), which is an old music hall song was sampled at the beginning of The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths and so sticks in my nut (head)