Ode to my iPad

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<p>Got H an IPAD about 3 weeks ago when he had surgery and was going to be home bound w/ leg in the air for two weeks. As he only has a work laptop, which is restrictive on web surfing, the IPAD was great for allowing him to get online w/o having to boot up the work computer and be frustrated or attempt to hobble to the desktop and have me frustrate him. <g> Anyway, we are a two kindle family, and after playing w/ the IPAD for a few weeks, we are still sold on our kindles for reading purposes. I read tons, and tons … one of those people who have multiple books going at once and can read a book so quickly that when I use the library I get dozens at a time. I could not handle reading on the IPAD for any length of time; I hate the backlight. I’ve tried the kindle app, but I don’t like holding the IPAD for lengthy reading. It’s just too heavy and cumbersome. I hold my kindle in one hand for hours, just like a paperback, and it fits in my purse and goes everywhere I go. I see them, as someone else mentioned, fitting totably different niches in the market. If I had to pick only one, when it comes to just reading e-books, I’d pick the Kindle. </g></p>

<p>zebes</p>

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<p>of - Ahhh, if your company does not allow, or otherwise blocks, email from being added that’s another issue. I was just commenting that the iPad does have the ability to add multiple accounts (comcast, yahoo, gmail, aol, etc.) without forwarding each individual account to a single one.</p>

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<p>Milkandsugar - the name of application is QuickOffice</p>

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<p>Oldfort: thanks! It lets you edit Office documents - I like that! Only five bucks to download if one doesn’t need the cloud fluff!</p>

<p>My company will gladly keep its employees on an email leash through their personal phones. :)</p>

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<p>I bought a “flexstand” for my iPad. I like how I can stand the iPad at any angle. </p>

<p>[ThinkGeek</a> :: iPad Flexstand](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/df5a/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/df5a/)</p>

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<p>The other advantage of Kindle over ipad (as an e-reader) is that you can easily read a kindle outside, say when at the beach or pool. </p>

<p>That being said, I think I might consider getting DH an ipad for Christmas as he often “steals” my laptop in the evenings to just “check a couple things out” and then I don’t get it back for a very long time. :)</p>