Oh Snap! Kindle disses iPad’s sunlight reading capabilities

[respiration]

You raise good points...I like swiping the pages on the iPad too...on the Nook/Kindle you have to press the button then the screen does this horrible inverting type thing which takes like a good sec or 2 for the page to change...this is why I believe Apple is serious about releasing a 7" iPad...that shit will ultimately squash the Kindle

Thanks. Yeah man, ergonomics is a big thing for me. I see the Kindle has a mode where it will display white text on a black b/g (for reading in the dark, maybe?) Bad move.

On another note, did you ever try reading .pdf's on your Archos 605? On mine some of the page loads would take upwards of a full minute - and don't let there be images.

Shit. Feels good to have something else to use.

 

[UptempoDro]

oh, he was crying again cause he hates Apple?

 

[Negmarron]

Just watched the commercial...

...and also a Kindle demo video. I've never used a Kindle but The Kindle 3 seems definitely worth the money as an eBook reader, when all is said and done. It's unquestionably the most fully-featured eBook reader out right now - perhaps the best reader overall.

That said, I have an iPad and the first thing I noticed in that garbage commercial is how they made it look like on the iPad the page alignment is all off - the next page bleeding over onto the right margin of the current page, some unnecessary mess at the top etc.
I have never seen a page looking like that in iBooks or even the Kindle app for iPad, neither ePub or pdf. Pages are always clean.

Sunlight issue aside, book pages appear to look pretty much the same on both devices. What I personally like about reading on the iPad's iBooks app are things the Kindle doesn't have:

• realistic looking page flip animation via swiping
• ability to change orientation of the screen by simply turning the device (as opposed to a sequence of pushed buttons)
• a backlight that enhances reading in the dark
• full color for accurate display of images (magazines etc)

It's kind of funny that the thing they championed on the commercial (sunlight readability) is the opposite of what the iPad does better (readability in the dark).

An honest comparison, I have the Kindle 2 and my wife has the 3g/wifi ipad with the Kindle app. For anything beside book reading, the ipad is better. I can get on wikipedia with the kindle, but for browsing the ipad wins. Book reading, even with the kindle app, goes to the kindle hands down because of the screen. LCD = eyestrain. E-ink looks just like paper. An LCD does not. Plus I can load mp3s on my kindle and listen while I read.

Tablets are cool, but I'd rather have a netbook for the keyboard.