Am 03.03.2011 um 13:01 schrieb a@aboq.org:

On Thursday, March 2011 at 11:21:39 (GMT +0100), Keith J. Schultz:

I personally will not shell out no more that $ 50 for a dedicated reading device.

I believe that's being rather petty and unreasonable, at the cost of your own
reading pleasure, and very likely also your eye-sight, which is a precious thing.
Reading on a Kindle device strains your eyes far less than staring at an LCD screen.

It depends on your screen and settings. I have had glasses since I was a young

I'm not wealthy by any means, but I happily shelled out hundreds of dollars
for earlier Kindle versions. Therefore, the current low price of $139 seems
like bread-crumbs to me, and I can't understand how anyone who truly
loves literature can fail to pay that low price to get a Kindle. ;-)

I am not into literature as one might say. The price has do with thier

function. DVD-players and Blu-rays are cheaper!

Take a look what you can do with an iPad what you can not

do with a Kindle! Then you will understand. That screen of theirs

is not worth that much!! Yes, I know the screen are the most expensive

part!

Yes, $139 is for the small-screen Kindle, but that's still radically better
than reading on a laptop. And, for reading on-the-go or in direct sunlight
outside your home, the $139 Kindle is an unbeatable deal. (I do prefer
the large Kindle DX for reading at home, because there I can also set
the font to be of a comfortably large, but not huge, size -- which is
another boon for your eye-sight.)

Thanx for proving my point about small screens!

Personally, I would suggest the iPad.

The iPad is great for reading after it gets dark. But, in daylight,
nothing beats a Kindle, while it would seem kind of silly to me
to stare at a back-lit screen for many hours every day while there
is ample light all around you, from natural sources.

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The Kindle app is still available

But the Kindle app for the iPad/iPhone is extremely low-quality.
I don't recommend it; just use Stanza instead. In addition to the
outrageously wide margins, wasting lots of the iPad's screen real
estate, the Kindle app does *not* offer the same functionality as
the hardware Kindle. As a good example, when you want to highlight
a passage in the Kindle app stretching over several pages, this is not
possible in the Kindle app, and the passage you highlighted will break
into 2. In contrast, on the hardware Kindle, highlighting a passage
across pages works flawlessly.