Comments on: How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide

By: Parker

Parker — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:45:28 +0000

Kindle, hands down! Perfect!!
Book choices magazines and newspapers!! What else do you need.
I love the “dictionary” feature and the ability to take notes or highlight interesting text.
Get one and read already, you are wasting time comparing!

By: arrbeejay

arrbeejay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:54:01 +0000

It seems odd to have the iPad weight listed in pounds (1.5) and the rest in ounces (up to 18+). Why not convert all to the same unit for easy comparison?

By: DovS

DovS — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:59:40 +0000

More than just “grayscale”, it would be useful to know how many shades of greyscale each display supports. The difference between 4, 16, or 256 shades of grayscale can be huge in terms of readability or photo display.

By: rudy

rudy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:42:52 +0000

Where is the device that is closest to the future of any e-reader to date? By which I mean Hearst’s Skiff? Also, a backlit screen with no e-ink is a very serious disadvantage for the Apple device, though this point has not yet been grasped by the digerati or the market. It’s only a matter of time, however, until it becomes clear that an e-reader’s job is READING.

By: Roger Black

Roger Black — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:13:37 +0000

Have to agree with Walt French. The comparison is not only between the purpose-built tablets, which some in the media are clinging to like Linus and his blanket. The question is: Which ones have browsers? HTML is the universal format of the moment. Only the iPad on this list accepts it.

By: Walt French

Walt French — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:19:03 +0000

It seems like your mindset was to start with Kindle’s definition of an e-reader, then add others’ closest efforts. Fair enough; they’re the standard-setter.

But if you’re going to throw out 95% of multiple-purpose devices’ capabilities such as video, standalone apps and music, why is it relevant that the Kindle plays MP3s and that Amazon has released a toolkit for creating standalone apps? Why is PDF missing from the iPad, when support was announced in the keynote and it’s one of dozens of formats listed on Apple’s tech specs site?

I understand many of the smaller e-book platforms share third-party DRM that might give you some confidence in being able to read your DRM’d books after your BrandX reader dies and is no longer for sale. That was a killer for the few people who bought Microsoft’s PlaysForSure content: the whole platform imploded at once. But it could be reassuring for people who favor minor market players.

Finally, this iPad thing is pretty new, but there are some likely guesses that I’ll venture: iBooks will allow some sharing across multiple devices à la iTunes; that it’ll read unencrypted ePubs and PDFs just fine; that thanks to “market evolution,” revenue splits and costs of data transfer will shift rapidly away from Amazon and towards its developers and publishers. You might put in “Stay Tuned” items for how much of a splash the iPad will make, in ways that will dramatically change what’s important in this table.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:23:32 +0000

Note: Kindles don’t have WiFi (as indicated in your battery life spec). Also, with the latest firmware update the screens do rotate,

By: LD

LD — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:00:04 +0000

What is “open” about the Sony Daily Edition? I’m not aware of a developer SDK of any kind.

By: cwbago

cwbago — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:13:02 +0000

Barnes and Noble is going to have over a million titles available for Nook. And I really don’t think the iPad should even be compared, no one is going to want to read for hours on end with a backlit screen. You might as well read on your computer.

By: samddisuzoa

samddisuzoa — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:07:31 +0000

what a sick comparison.

cant you make enough efforts at paidcontent to make sure that units and parameters are correct