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TidBITS compares Kindle and iPad
February 8, 2010 | 5:35 pm
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By Chris Meadows
I’m a little late noticing this, but on January 31st TidBITS posted a detailed head-to-head comparison of the Kindle versus the iPad as e-book reading platforms. There is also some discussion of the Amazon/Macmillan dispute, though the outcome was unknown at that point.
TidBITS‘s Glenn Fleishman concludes:
In the end, Amazon is a bookseller, and its foray into hardware shows that it’s better at moving media than making machines. The Kindle has evolved into a nice piece of hardware that gets great reviews from those who keep it.
But, put bluntly, the Kindle DX just doesn’t compare favorably with the iPad in any way other than battery life and screen visibility in sunlight; the Kindle 2 benefits from being smaller and cheaper. And the Kindle ebook library may offer titles at a lower price, though Amazon may be forced to capitulate on that.
The article includes plenty of comparison photos and charts, and makes very interesting reading. As Fleishman, like me, has no difficulty reading from a lit LCD screen, his conclusions may not be valid for everyone, but I think he makes some very good points.
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Comments:
I find this article to be quite biased against the Kindle. For many serious readers, the dictionary feature is one of the most important features of an e-book reader. This article makes no mention of a dictionary feature on the iPad, and it dismisses the Kindle’s dictionary as awkward. This simply is not the case — the Kindle’s dictionary feature is far superior to that of any other e-book reader. The way the Kindle saves “clipped” articles and highlighted text to a text file is another useful feature. I’m one Kindle user who has yet to hear something about the iPad that makes me want one.
I don’t like reading fiction on an LCD screen, and I don’t want to read on a screen as big as the iPad’s. And I don’t need my reader to do anything but read. I’ll stick with my Nook.