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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (160623)	4/21/2010 12:09:02 PM
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“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty per cent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.” Sad, if true. While I plan to get an iPad a month or two down the road, I'm not sure it is attractive as a reading device for books. Maybe. I'll keep my Kindle. Kindle's advantages -- - It has the "feel" of a real book, and extended hours of reading is not as hard on the eyes as reading from a standard LCD screen, probably due to the "ink" of Kindle; - Kindle is the right size to be able to easily haul it around; - I don't have to worry about charging it. A charge lasts as much as a week. The iPad has the advantage of being readable in low-light situations and the bigger, color screen. Since the readers who tend toward Kindles are "serious" book readers, the Kindle may hold more appeal for them. The noteable exceptions are textbooks and periodicals which are surely far better on the iPad.