i just don't understand how people think the iPad is a viable alternative to e-readers or regular books.
who wants to read entire novels on an LCD? i've done it before (and will most likely do it again for out of print and/or impossible to find books) and it is a royal pain.
I can't believe that Kindle owners think that the everyone wants to just read novels in ebook form. There is a reason that any Borders or other brick and morter bookstore is probably 1/3 text only volumes and the other 2/3 are childrens books, books on tourism, photo books on the life of Elvis and self help books on building a new deck on your house. All of which are next to worthless on the Kindle but will actually be decent on an LCD based reader. Not everyone cares if you can do a 12 reading session on the thing, and I'd be willing to be that Amazon can track reading habits on the Kindle devices and finds the average readering session is relatively low in comparison to what people try to make it out to be.
While most people will only read 500 page novels on a Kindle... I personally am more excited about the possibly of consuming *other* types of media on something like the iPad. Non-fiction books, full-color magazines, how-to books, videos, etc.
For novels... buy a Kindle. For everything else, enjoy the iPad.
The whole line-up consists of the $60 Amps in-ears and $100 Tracks on-ear headphones, which both also come in slightly souped-up and pricier HD variations at $100 and $130, respectively.
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i just don't understand how people think the iPad is a viable alternative to e-readers or regular books.
who wants to read entire novels on an LCD? i've done it before (and will most likely do it again for out of print and/or impossible to find books) and it is a royal pain.
@willowtwf
it's a viable alternative when the one-trick pony Kindle DX is $489.
@TomSawyer Regular Kindle is $260 and that's the real iPad competition. But if you're arguing the iPad is going kill the DX then sure.
@willowtwf
I can't believe that Kindle owners think that the everyone wants to just read novels in ebook form. There is a reason that any Borders or other brick and morter bookstore is probably 1/3 text only volumes and the other 2/3 are childrens books, books on tourism, photo books on the life of Elvis and self help books on building a new deck on your house. All of which are next to worthless on the Kindle but will actually be decent on an LCD based reader. Not everyone cares if you can do a 12 reading session on the thing, and I'd be willing to be that Amazon can track reading habits on the Kindle devices and finds the average readering session is relatively low in comparison to what people try to make it out to be.
@dennisheadley
Here here!
While most people will only read 500 page novels on a Kindle... I personally am more excited about the possibly of consuming *other* types of media on something like the iPad. Non-fiction books, full-color magazines, how-to books, videos, etc.
For novels... buy a Kindle. For everything else, enjoy the iPad.