Semi-OT: Apple iPad

I checked out the Nook from Barnes & Noble, and it didn't impress me with its PDF rendering. Of course, I can't check out a Kindle since they don't have a store, but that device doesn't have an SD slot (the Nook does). Some of the devices demo'ed at CES sound interesting, and since I'm not in a burning-down-the-house hurry I'll just wait to see which of them actually makes it into the world. That way I don't have to deal with the [deleted for reasons of good taste] at the Apple Store. -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Thiemann [joachim.thiemann at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:24 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Apple iPad Why all this discussion about the iPad? For the stated purpose (reading PDFs) would not a similar-form-factor _designed specifically for that purpose_ serve much better? By now there are a bunch of "e-readers" with e-ink displays - which one of those is currently best for scanned PDFs (which is what in this context is the primary application!)? I know that many of the current ones have (fairly) low pixel density (thus bad for scanned text even if adequate for OCR'd documents) and many suffer from bad PDF support; but I'd expect that at this stage _someone_ has made one that is of a good size with high resolution. At least most of these now support slapping an SD card full of files into them, right? This way you're not tied to a network (wireless or wired). -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem