Thoughts on the Apple iPad and the Kindle
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First things first, I have not seen the Apple iPad. I am an enthusiastic owner of an Amazon Kindle. I honestly don’t see what the hype is about. Granted, I never do with Apple products, but I can’t even see it from Apple’s point of view this time. The Kindle is perfect at what it does, largely because it doesn’t do that much. You read order, download, and read books on it. Period. The Kindle does that effortlessly and the e-ink is easier to read than paper. The pages are consistently sized (an under-reported feature of the Kindle that helps quite a bit) and the battery lasts forever. The Kindle also weighs almost nothing and you do not have to choose between it and a laptop in terms of weight or space. In sum, the Kindle solves the problem of “I want to read something” quite well.
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