That’s the title of an article by Macworld’s Jonathan Seff.
The iPad is a curious device—not quite an iPod, not quite a laptop. I typically bring it to work with me during the day, and keep it on my nightstand at home at other times. And although I use it for many different purposes—checking e-mail, ordering from Amazon, catching up on Twitter, controlling one of the Macs in the other room—what I’ve really noticed is how the iPad has changed how and what I read.
The author discusses how the iPad has made a big difference to him as far as magazine reading goes – it’s even caused him to subscribe to Rolling Stone (via Zinio) and he intends to switch to Zinio for at least one other magazine.
He likes it for reading books and doesn’t find it too heavy or too glarey. (Just shows you how people are different. I definitely find it too heavy and too glarey.)
He hasn’t bought any comics yet, but really likes the Marvel app.
Hey Paul have you tried turning down the brightness ? Using white on black ? I myself use white on black for all eBook reading but normal for email.
Yes, I’ve done all that. The weight is a big factor as well.
Weight is always a factor I agree. About ten years ago I made a firm decision never ever to buy any more of these modern large format paperbacks that dominate the bookshops now (do they call them A5 ?). They are humungous and a pain in the neck (arms actually) to hold open and read for any length of time. Since then I have only ever purchased traditional small format.
With the iPad I don’t have to turn the pages so it’s easier to cradle imho.
I bought a Rolling Stone subscription too. You can listen to their top 500 songs on the iPad while reading about the creation of it.
I also subscribed to National Geographic the pictures rock in the iPad.