I’m going to put the Sony and Kindle on eBay one of these days. I use the iPad 99.9% of the time when reading. I have to admit that the Kindle was nice on the eyes, but only in the right light. Since I read a lot at night I got a light for the Kindle but it produced a lot of glare.

I also have the B&N app and am not ashamed to say that I check all 3 (Amazon, Apple and B&N) for the cheapest price when buying a book.

Of course, I also shop used book stores so there is no real brand loyalty in the book space for me :-)

I also question Mr. Konrath’s stats or at least the usage of said stats. It would be more interesting to see if Amazon would publish how many of his books are delivered to iPhones, iPads and Kindles, however the odds of that happening are probably pretty slim. Especially if it hurts the Kindle numbers.

Obviously I’m talking about degrees here, as the iPad screen looks fine for casual viewing, but comparing it to the Kindle or a current generation iPhone screen and especially comparing the density of pixels per inch, you get pretty low numbers for the iPad. The e-ink technology of the Kindle is worse in several ways, but crispness is not one of them, and I personally believe that is the deciding factor.

The iPad and all personal computers need screens with far higher pixel density. That brings other issues like power consumption and graphics update speed, but to read on them for prolonged periods of time, you need magazine-like resolutions or beyond to be really comfortable.

I have never quite understood the e-ink debates. Like many of us, I spend almost all day in front of a monitor. After doing that for so many years, I don’t find that reading on a device such as an iPad, despite it being backlit, as anything but “natural”. If you can spend 8-10 hours a day in front of a backlit computer screen, I don’t understand how reading 100 pages or more on a backlit device is tiring.

I’m an attorney and use the iPad to read everything from comics to magazines to novels to pdfs of contracts and pleadings. I prefer the backlit (albeit set to less then sunburn brightness) and find it much more natural and relaxing then reading an e-ink device. I agree with the other comments – while iBooks has a very nice UI, the Kindle app, with all of the available content really shines on the iPhone. I’m still annoyed that it took ereader so long to make its app iPad compatible since I had such a large library of books – as a result I buy almost all my new content from Amazon.

Oh, and don’t get me started as to why I need 3 or 4 different e-readers to read all my books…unless I feel like using 3rd party programs to convert my books and then reload and hope they format correctly…sheesh!