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iPad Review
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Most of my reading is done on backlit LCDs -- Fanfic is bibliophile crack. Cheap, easy to find the next hit, and arguably bad for you.
I've got a Sony Reader, and it's great for what it is -- I can feed it army manuals, and find books for it in its native formats.
The problem is that content is too spendy for it most of the time -- Only Baen prices books at a price I'm generally willing to spend for a day's entertainment. Sony's ebook store is windows only, on top of excessive pricing. ($2 for a relicensed Project Gutenberg text? I think they've gone to free, but I haven't played with their store since Summer 2008, so)
Free content -- Fanfic in particular -- is a pain to read on it, 'cause it takes fifteen minutes or more to convert an HTML document or string of them into something the PRS can read, due to certain website's poor support for flat text . . .
The iPad looks like it will fit in a cargo pocket, support PDFs, web content, and epub in one form or another. Not a perfect fit, perhaps, but closer than my poor old Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 and the iPaqs that preceded it.
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Most of my reading is done on backlit LCDs -- Fanfic is bibliophile crack. Cheap, easy to find the next hit, and arguably bad for you.
I've got a Sony Reader, and it's great for what it is -- I can feed it army manuals, and find books for it in its native formats.
The problem is that content is too spendy for it most of the time -- Only Baen prices books at a price I'm generally willing to spend for a day's entertainment. Sony's ebook store is windows only, on top of excessive pricing. ($2 for a relicensed Project Gutenberg text? I think they've gone to free, but I haven't played with their store since Summer 2008, so)
Free content -- Fanfic in particular -- is a pain to read on it, 'cause it takes fifteen minutes or more to convert an HTML document or string of them into something the PRS can read, due to certain website's poor support for flat text . . .
The iPad looks like it will fit in a cargo pocket, support PDFs, web content, and epub in one form or another. Not a perfect fit, perhaps, but closer than my poor old Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 and the iPaqs that preceded it.