On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:34:38AM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > And don't try reading a 100+ MByte color PDF or DJVU on a Kindle. > > > Nevermind that a DIY library will be most likely have a web interface, > > > with WLAN or 3/4G access. > > > > > > > Reading PDFs on the basic Kindle is not a great experience. I found that > > What I meant that these are scans of large books, typically with > color illustrations. I do not think Kindle can even render these at > all. DJVU Kindle cannot render at all, IIRC. > My eight year old often reads to me at night from my iPad. We download books from Amazon to the Kindle app (the iBooks store has a much smaller selection of books). She loves it.
I think that the screen is pleasant to read but I think the main attractions for her are: a) It's novel. b) It makes her feel like an adult to be reading from the iPad. c) There are a lot of choices for what to read. We also get books from the local library so she has a mix of real and ebook reading experiences. It's also good for her to see the choices that you are presented from entering searches vs. walking down a library aisle and seeing what books are clustered near the one you were looking for. The pictures on the iPad are just fine for the books she has been reading. We look at color PDFs in iBooks or the Goodreader app (I started using Goodreader before iBooks became available and I like it). >From a father's point of view - if I'm trying to get her to read out loud to me she is much more enthusiastic using the iPad for reasons (a) and (b) above. I expect this to wear off over time. I haven't used the real Kindle for more than a minute or two so I can't comment on eyestrain. I've been happy with the iPad - I tested it as an e-reader by reading the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (I hadn't read any of these before - I guess I shouldn't admit this on this list) and it was a wonderful immersive novel-reading experience. The main argument I've heard from people who own both an iPad and a Kindle is that the Kindle is preferable as an e-reader on the NYC subway. You can read with one hand as you're holding onto the strap or pole. > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > >
