I heard about the newly released iPad 3 or HD or whatever its called and I was thinking to myself, "How excited should I be getting for this thing?" Wasn't the iPad 2 released just a couple of months ago? Maybe I should wait until the iPad 4 comes out before I get really excited or should I wait for the iPad 5 or maybe the 6...
So many Pads or tablets are released and then re-released and then they release a better one under a different name and I just wonder whether it's all worth it? I have been toying with the idea of getting one of these things for a while now but I just can't decide whether getting it would add anything to my productivity at all. A tablet isn't a laptop in that you can't do the same stuff on there that you do on your laptop. I like the idea of watching movies on there but I can do that on my laptop too. It is bigger but I can live with that. Its basically a BIG phone and I like that because sometimes there are things that don't display quite as well on your phone and a bigger screen would be great. But I can use my laptop for that too. It's bigger and bulkier but I can live with that.
What I really, truly want is an ebook reader that I can whip out on a long flight or a quiet afternoon on the couch and immerse myself in a good book. I have quite a lot of ebooks to read now that I have joined LibraryThing Early Reviewers but without one of those ebook readers I have to resort to reading it off my laptop screen or printing it out. The former isn't that great for my eyes and the latter isn't that great for the environment since I chuck away the pages once I'm done with the book (hope there'll be no lynch-mob outside my house after that admission). So is the iPad a good ebook reader or should I get maybe a Kindle or a Gobii or an iRiver... I was going through the specs on the Apple website this morning and it seems like it could be a pretty decent reader but what about that glare. And the size... I can whip out the Kindle on a flight and get stuck into a book while the hostess or stewardess, or whatever they're called these days, drones on about the in-flight safety and the temperature at our destination but whipping out the iPad might result in the maiming of my fellow passenger. It's quite large. Could be quite messy. Mmmm...
iPad...Kindle...Gobii? I think I'll wait for the 5 or 6 and in the meantime I'll get the ebook reader I want because as a niche product it does the one thing I want it to do really well and that's good enough for me.
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