When I bought my iPad, I didn’t realize how many tasks I was going use my iPad for instead of my Mac. And it makes sense – for example reading the news online is so much easier and convenient on the iPad rather than on a big fat screen, using a keyboard and a mouse. But one thing I wouldn’t think the iPad was going to replace was the book. It just didn’t make much sense to me.
But oh, I was wrong. I have started reading books on my iPad, mainly because I don’t need to carry any extra weight with me – my iPad is always in my backpack anyway. And having a 850 pages thick “Game of Thrones” in my bag all the time is not something that I’d prefer.
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Steve Gillmor at TechCrunch is having another great point in this matter in one of his posts:
So I bought or was given the John Lennon autobiography by Philip Norman a few years ago. I read it in fits and starts, right up until someone (maybe me, maybe not) spilled coffee on it and saturated the first third of a very long book. I spent an hour separating the pages and drying them individually so as not to lose too much of the narrative.
Then the iPad arrived, I downloaded the book from the Kindle app, and never touched the paper version again. Moral: you own the print version as in You Break It You Buy It. I own the coffee-stained stuck-together pages where John met Paul and decided to bring him in even though he would ultimately take over and spend weeks on Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.
I read about this on the iPad.
Do you read a lot of books on your iPad, and if so, which one are you currently enjoying on your iPad?