Sean I shall never, myself, be a great advocate of things like the Kindle... I > spend all day looking at a screen programming, or in my part time job at > Morrisons supporting self-scans and working on tills, so when I want to "get > away and relax" the last thing I want is an electronic screen. > > Decent Newspaper and (paper) novel will do me. > > Returning to the subject, what is the advantage of a Kindle over something > like an iPad which - to me at least - appears to be much better able to view > PDF files and is fairly decent at books too? >
In spite of my disparaging comments about the Kindle, the big advantage is the reflected light screen that has the same feel as reading paper. It is a far more pleasant experience than reading a computer screen. Before buying the Kindle I read a few reviews from people who owned both Kindles and iPads, and the concensus was that you could read a Kindle all day, but that extended reading with the iPad gave eyestrain and head aches. Graham
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