There is a terrific article in the current issue of The New York Review of Books. The article is by Sue Halpern and is called “The iPad Revolution“. It is a very good comparison of iPad and Kindle and the relative differences in the approaches of Apple and Amazon. Bottom line is that neither of them are perfect. (We already know that). But it is the best thing I have read on this issue so far.
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