ebook device

[rkce]

Dear Mr. faros3000,

Yes iPad i great for reading the book, surfing the internet, Music listening, Watch Video....
Better buy the iPad2, the price is start from 499$ to 829$ (depend on the size of storage).

I'm ordering the iPad2 3G-WI-FI 64GB, expect to arrive in July. In my home country it's very expansive, because they import from USA, Singapore, Hong Kong.

iBook is great soft to read ebook, we could load our pdf book download from our great forum. Nowadays I use iBook in my iPhone 3GS, however the 3.5" screen is too small to read the book, need to zoom and pan, so I decide to order the iPad2 for this purpose.

With regards,

rkce

[ynopum]

For this price you can buy a Winodws7 (or XP) tablet PC (1.66Ghz, 1GB RAM - parameters as netbook, but much thinner without the hardware keyboard). You can run on it almost every Windows compatible software.

For good reading you need as big screen as possible (> 4"), high resolution (>VGA), software to read. The last one is the problem for complex PDF files, scanned JBIG compressed PDFs, DjVu. Ordinary ASCII TXT files are not problem at all on any device. Specialized black-white screen readers are not supposed to display proprietary formats, as the compression ant formatting needs an OS to run the process.

i would recommend you to buy a Tablet PC (Windows 7 based) as the price is below 400 USD, and it can substitute a notebook, is you already don't have such. You can start Autocad, MS Excel etc. on it. The big problem of those tablets is that you have not more than few ours battery life. Usually a little bit worse than a netbook, as the batteries are smaller. Those batteries of most of the models are not fast changeable, so you're sticked to the wall socket. Here is the greatest advantage of the ebook-readers - they have superb B/W screens and great battery life.

[concreteok]

By the way, my kindle dx 1st generation start to be unable to read more more pdf. For example the orion manual for R16. Used to be alrite with those from R15. Its time to look at an ipad.

@ipad user, how long the battery last if u use it as reader in a single charge?

[usman]

another option is ASUS EEE SLATE EP121

its thicker, heavier, less battery, costly than ipad
but it has full windows 7 with optional BT KB, upto 64GB SSHD, usb, hdmi...

google it for detailed specs and price