This post and all the replies are full of misconceptions. I suspect the average book price is way off. I have 98 digital books in my kindle library. My avera

This post and all the replies are full of misconceptions. I suspect the average book price is way off. I have 98 digital books in my kindle library. My average book price for the 98 books was $3.46. 39 books were free. The average book price for my non-free books was $5.87. As far as kindle vs iPad, I have both. The kindle is MUCH better for actual reading. It's possible when you're 10 years old that you can read novels by moonlight, but as you get older having a well-lit book is a much better experience. Reading on the kindle, with a bright light over your shoulder is wonderful. The kindle does have a clunky interface, but I don't have to use it much. I usually peruse books in the amazon store on my computer (or sometimes on my iphone). I can buy and send it to my kindle in one click. But mostly, I send books to my kindle using the "send sample" feature. I don't buy books until I'm sure I want to buy them. I send a sample. Then when I go to my kindle, there's a big queue of books that might or might not be interesting. I start reading them, and if I like it I get to the end of the sample and click the buy button they embedded there. Oh, one more thing -- in the beginning I got a lot of free books for my kindle. My library is now cluttered up with a bunch of books that seemed good at the time, but now I can't get rid of. In the end, the kindle may have a clunky interface, but it excels at being a book. It's my preferred way to read. I also have an iPad, and it's just not as good a reading experience for text. You can see the pixels in the characters, and the LCD display isn't as easy to read. I'm sure apple will remedy this going forward as their display gets brighter and higher-resolution. However, I don't know if it can get as good as the kindle with a good reading light. The iPad will never compare to the kindle in sunlight. However, the iPad excels with color or animated books. For example, the kids books for the iPad are wonderful (look at the free Alice in Wonderland or Toy Story books). For textbooks, I can imagine it can only get better, maybe redefining what a book is. I can imagine physics textbooks with built-in calculations, graphing and demonstrations. The line between app and book is getting pretty fuzzy.