I could see some lush addictions taking off with that little device.36zveZVaACe163Z9
I heard it's good for reading ebooks and games.
What do you gals think of it being called an iPad?
honestly ... seems cool! not sure how it would do with my long nails though .... and I hate the smudges on my cell phone as is!
but per Nic's comment - I love paper ... I love the written word, turning a page, the beauty of a page illustrated, the feel of a great book in my lap ... and then, giving my books to someone else who will enjoy it - and keeping my favourites with my ever-increasing home library.
Don't you love the look of a bookcase filled with treasured books??
I do!
I agree Van. Nothing beats the look and feel of a good book. I have a few treasures that were pronted in the early 1920's and 30's and I love to think that someone long ago, read and touched the same pages as I have.
While I could never use it for reading fiction (I love curling up all snuggly with a paperback in bed)...
I wonder if it would make college textbooks cheaper? Some books I'd still like the paper copy for, but the books I know I'm only going to use that semester? It has definite possibilities. And think about how much lighter my backpack would be!
Right there. Oh yeah baby. Right there.
No, I don't think a tampon would be the iPad. It would be an iCram®.
Yes I am a geek freak. And yes I have been using Apple products for 25 years. My house is fully wired, I have three WiFI routers and two separate high-speed broadband connections coming into my house. There are 3 17-inch Powerbooks, A G5 tower, a Mac mini that I use as a media server and network hub, 3 iPhones, two touches, and a PC tower running Windows that I test webstuff on. It was inevitable that I would be getting one of these iPads.
All of that being said. One of my publishers called me three weeks ago asking me begin working on (illustrating) a Children's book for this device. My publishers are no small time players. They laughed at Sony's offering. They were intrigued by the Kindle but could not fully wrap their head around it. None of them would ever read a book on the computer. The project manager, who I do work with said "When the iPad hit our boardroom and we paged through the interface, and the digital books, they said 'This is it.' Then one of the board members said an interesting thing. "The iPhones were a training device. Millions and millions of users who will know how the iPad works without ever having laid hands on one -- little to no leaning curve. They have been pre-schooled by cultural meme." As conspiratorial as that might sound, That pretty much clinched the deal for the publishers who after watching the nuclear meltdown of the music industry where anxious not to let this happen to them.
My wife, who is a book junkie as well as a chronic "TV-on while sitting in front of the laptop googling" echoed this comment. She understood right away what the implications meant and it had nothing to do with her iPhone. My six year old who plays "Pocket god" on my iPhone will get it too.
The device also has broad implications for independent publishers. The Apple iPad app for reading books is based on open source epub standards. This means anybody can publish written content to this machine. The Apps are controlled by Apple but the content is controlled by who ever is publishing it.
Interesting NobeUddy.
What do you typically write?
I commute a fair distance and this would be ideal because I always fill my back pack up with books...
Personally myself I love to read a good book I just don't like reading stuff on a computer that much yeah sure I come to Lush to read short stories and go to various forums to read the posts but anything as long as a book no give me pen and paper thank you very much. As said nothing like the smell of the paper and just the feel of the pages and the sound of them as you trun each page. Just me I think it's nothing more than a new toy is all. And the other point I HATE FINGER PRINTS on an LCD screen annoys the living shit out of me.
If anyone is thinking of buying one, I'd seriously wait at least 3 months until all the live field testing is done.
Why anybody buys new technology stuff when it first comes out is beyond me. Its always super expensive and lots of times it doesnt work right yet. My friend got an iphone when it first came out- piece-0-crap, lol. I have one now, not one problem, and for less $$$ too.
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