Various thoughts on the subject, not terribly well connected:
I love my iPad, but I do have to admit that if Kindle had done the Great Price Drop two weeks earlier, I probably would have bought one of those instead.
Color e-ink is coming; a color e-ink reader was just announced yesterday, though it's not a familiar brand.
Battery life is a lot less on the iPad than on the Kindle, but it's sufficiently long not to be an issue -- around 8 hours of actual use.
For the sort of reading that I do while standing in line or waiting at the doctor's office, neither the iPad or the Kindle would work, since I don't carry a purse. Right now, I read books on my Treo 680, and soon it'll be an iPhone -- my mother offered her iPhone 3 as a hand-me-down when she upgraded. I wouldn't read book on smartphones by preference, but it's certainly handy to have them.
I don't know if you read fan fiction, but if you do, there are a number of sites that let you download directly from the site to the Stanza app on my iPad. I love this feature.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
I love my iPad, but I do have to admit that if Kindle had done the Great Price Drop two weeks earlier, I probably would have bought one of those instead.
Color e-ink is coming; a color e-ink reader was just announced yesterday, though it's not a familiar brand.
Battery life is a lot less on the iPad than on the Kindle, but it's sufficiently long not to be an issue -- around 8 hours of actual use.
For the sort of reading that I do while standing in line or waiting at the doctor's office, neither the iPad or the Kindle would work, since I don't carry a purse. Right now, I read books on my Treo 680, and soon it'll be an iPhone -- my mother offered her iPhone 3 as a hand-me-down when she upgraded. I wouldn't read book on smartphones by preference, but it's certainly handy to have them.
I don't know if you read fan fiction, but if you do, there are a number of sites that let you download directly from the site to the Stanza app on my iPad. I love this feature.