Question by : When it comes to reading electronically, Apple iPad vs. Amazon Kindle?
Title says it all.
When it comes to reading a book electronically, in your opinion, which is better? The Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad?
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Answer by JaKi
It depends what you’re reading. If just black & white novels then the better one would be Kindle or e-Ink Nook from Barnes & Noble. If you read electronic magazines or college text books with a lot of color graphs and charts or childrens’ books with a lot of pictures then the better would be iPad or Nook Color from Barnes & Noble.
You should understand the limitations of e-Ink eReaders – they are limited to be black & white for now and they cannot handle videos, they “blink” at each ebook’s page turn.
You should understand the limitations of iPad as it doesn’t have USB port and it’s screen is highly reflective and is very bad for reading in many lighting conditions and it’s very expensive.
Thus the better would be a hybrid device which combines the better parts of both worlds. Such device is Nook Color from Barnes & Noble which is a hybrid Android eReader/tablet and has USB port (unlike iPad). Nook Color has a new generation screen which is anti-glare coated and is better performing in sunlight and for reducing eye strain than iPad’s. The screen is one of the best and sharpest on the market and it’s viewable at wide angles. It is great for PDF’s, much better than Kindle. From the cost side, you can buy two Nook Color’s for the price of one iPad.
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In spite of what Barnes and Noble claims about their “new” LCD screen, it’s still an LCD, which, for many people, is not the best choice for long-form reading. NookColor’s display isn’t any better than iPad’s. For long-form reading, e-ink is more like paper and therefore *most* people find it a better choice. Check them out side-by-side at Best Buy and then factor in the way that you read. If you read mostly books that are in black and white and you have no other use for iPad’s multi-purpose platform, the huge savings alone would probably make Kindle the better way to go. That $300+ could buy a lot of e-books and accessories.