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		peteretep on Jan 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinve... And this is the reason that I as a Mac fanboi still don't have an iPad. However, I have no trouble reading the Kindle on my iPhone when I forget my real Kindle, leading me to believe I'm going to enjoy reading on an iPad 3, a lot, especially NYT and The Economist, which suck on Kindles.

betterth on Jan 19, 2012 [–]

Kindle is better for TEXT only.

iPad is incomparably better for anything that uses more than straight text.

Even today's textbooks would be very poor on Kindle compared to iPad.

But today's bestsellers are much better on Kindle than iPad, in my opinion. I like the e-ink for long periods of text reading.

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