Wired’s Geek Dad discusses his ereading experience; comments on the iPad

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By Paul Biba

In an article on Wired.com entitled Six Months with an eBook Reader: Yeah or Meh?, Geek Dad Brad Moon discusses his entry into the ebook domain.

Brad’s feeling about the iPad is almost the same as mine, so I’ll excerpt that short section of the article:

… I think I’ll hold off. I want an eBook reader that I can carry around and read on the beach. I want a display that I can easily read in the daylight and a battery that lasts for weeks between charges. I read novels for the most part, and they’re black text on a white page, so color is moot, unless you count nice displays of the book’s cover. When I do take the plunge on an iPad, I may do some reading on it, but I can’t see the day when a tablet that’s too big to pocket, expensive enough to make me cringe if I accidentally dropped it, not the greatest for reading in daylight and with battery life measured in hours instead of days, becomes my daily go-to device for reading eBooks; eComics, sure, but that’s something for another day. The iPad may eventually replace my MacBook Air as the lightweight device I use to stay in touch and dabble at writing while I’m off camping, but only if/when Apple caves and allows multiple applications to run simultaneously.

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