I want to get the best platform for my wife for her 30th. She loves to read. Looking for the best experience for her. I know that the iPad is significantly more expensive, but does it deliver more for the price? Or should I go for an established and lit-specific device like the Kindle?
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Diane Says:
This is a tough question for me to answer but I will try. I never purchased the kindle but I have a friend who has one. She has both the Kindle and the iPad and she said that she has shelved her kindle for now. She is thinking about selling it on ebay in fact.
I have an iPad. given as a gift to me from my husband. I LOVE IT! I carry it every where I go. The biggest plus is all the material I now have access to. By that I mean, books! I recently subscribed to a service where I get all the books I will ever need and I only had to pay a small ONE TIME fee.
If you purchase the iPad along with this service she will love it, especially if she is a bookwork like I am. Another note about the iPad, when you use it to read the interface feels like you are reading an actually book. You can turn pages and increase fonts its truly amazing, I don’t know how I ever got along without it.
You can read a full review about myPadMedia here:
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Natural Says:
For reading purpose, I’ll say the Kindle ebook reader will definitely be better.
I’ve given a detailed comparison between the iPad and the Kindle, in a previous answer here. Guess you’ll be interested:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100418192044AApwxy2
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Rony Says:
For reading I would recommend you Kindle. You can buy Ipad as a entertainment package like for music, watching videos,games etc. Kindle also uses the E-INK screen technology so you dont harm your eyes, reading for hours. Kindle also has a free basic web browsing.The battery life is really good for kindle also you will find a wide range of books on kindle.
Some of the good features of Ipad are they support 16GB of memory also supports Wi-Fi + 3G
whereas Kindle jst supports 3G.
So in my option if you want a device for reading than go for Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015T963C?ie=UTF8&tag=gaminglinks-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015T963CHope I Helped
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Smarto Says:
For reading use, I think you should definitely go for the Kindle instead of iPad. The iBookStore of iPad is too unmature at this moment. And there has been many users complaining that if you look into the screen of iPad for reading over an hour, your eyes will get very tired because of the backlight. See an article about this here:
And I’ve given a comparison between the models of Kindle reader here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100422112423AAYwBBx
Hope this helps your decision.
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kitty Says:
If you want a reading device than go for kindle. Ipad is jst for an entertainment. Kindle is sure a worth buying. Wireless is a unique feature I will say and that’s make really value for money. 3G wireless and global coverage, I personally travel a lot and really worthy for me. You can have any newspaper at any place and also they are cheaper. The best selling value for the Kindle is convenience for the travel, it’s pretty handy and easy to carry anywhere with you. The other important thing matters to me are speedy for downloading books and reading material. Also it allow around average size of 1500 books and reading material to store, so is a significant amount of storage space to bring with you. In one line I can say “you are carrying your book shelf with you”.
Also one of the other feature of Kindle is it’s E-INK screen technology that don’t glare in any light so no strain to eyes and you can read for hours.Also you save a lot in compare to the actual books, the books on kindle are really cheaper so I have saved a lot till now. Also there are plenty of books on kindle to choose. Also it has so good features such as Text-To-Speech which is really useful when you get bored or doing some other activity.
Amazon Kindle Home for more info,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015T963C?ie=UTF8&tag=bestdeals-y-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015T963Cyou can read the review here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2V7EJ7AM22CLF%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dcm%5Fcr%5Frdp%5Fperm&tag=bestdeals-y-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 -
Danko Says:
I would get her an iPad, because in terms of what she will really want, she will always want an iPad, but the Kindle and nook, she might want might not want. If that makes sense. Basically its a guarantee that she will love the iPad, she might love the kindle and nook more, but at the same time you risk that she might like them less than the iPad.
Just a heads up, make sure you get a screen protector and case! I got an anti glare from BoxWave, and a Case from Long Live Books
BoxWave AG: http://www.boxwave.com/products/cleartouch/cleartouch-screen-protector-apple-ipad_3779.htm
Long Live Books: http://longlivebooks.com/
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Dahema Says:
yes, buy a iPad is better for ebooks reading, you probably need a pdf to ipad epub converter http://www.dvdipadconverter.org/pdf_to_ipad_epub_converter__-22-software.html it will help you convert pdf, world, jpeg etc files format into ipad readable epub format…
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13131jonny Says:
I think they are about the same for reading books but there is a site called mypadmedia where you can get free ibooks. Mypadmedia will probably work for the kindle as well but I am not sure. I think that the ipad is better because it has loads of apps
