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Here's video of the iPad's e-reader -- it's about a minute in. I loved the image of books on a shelf -- nice comibination of new/old schools. Nancy has dismissed the iPad as a heavier, bulkier Kindle. Others say the iPad will be the death of the Kindle. So who's right?
Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme. 
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I'm not sure. It's a lot more expensive than a Kindle. One thing in the Kindle's favor is that I've had great luck with customer service with amazon, but not so much with Apple.
Posted by: Kathy R (Bermudaonion) | January 27, 2010 8:06 PM
I remember using a Ronco product once that was designed like this- for a high apartment window? you would put 1/2- the half w the sponge outside the window and a magnet was supposed to hold it while you swiped? Imagine how well that worked.
But wait there's more.
What I'm trying to say is-
a big gadget- like the computer- well, it has helped me word process- but (especially in my case)
it's garbage in, garbage out.
I'm not saying this new gadget will hurt you- but will it really help? Too much of the media is just selling things, thinly disguised.
Do we get steak knives with this- but wait there's more.
Will this help glacially slow politicians move forward in DC? or Annapolis?
Puhleez.... it's bowflex, it's roller derby vacuums- but wait...
o o here comes the capcha where words bleed over in balck into white and you can't eread them- i think it's our coolly- but it could be our caolly?
Posted by: david eberhardt | January 28, 2010 6:36 AM
Actually, I could download my favorite book- posssibly the most beautiful one in the world- to it- Redoute's A Choice of the Best Fruits and Flowers
capcha:
peltz winces
(shouldn't it be "pelts" winces?
Posted by: david eberhardt | January 29, 2010 7:22 AM