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This is why I prefer reading on the iPad or a laptop as opposed to a Kindle. While a Kindle is certainly easier on the eyes, being able to quickly flip through
by SatvikBeri 15y ago
This is why I prefer reading on the iPad or a laptop as opposed to a Kindle. While a Kindle is certainly easier on the eyes, being able to quickly flip through pages and search through a book is just too great to give up.
- levesque 15y agoIs it? I never found myself wanting for such an ability. For me, the e-ink display is much more interesting than dynamic scrolling/skimming.
- SatvikBeri 15y agoSome examples of how an iPad/PDF saves me time vs a Kindle: -Let's say I'm looking up how control flow works in a programming language I have little experience with. I can skip to the index, find control flow, and click on that in a few seconds. -The current chapter covers a new technique that I think could be applied to a previous example, and I want to check that example out. With the iPad/PDF I can easily move back and forth, with a Kindle I can't. -The current page references a technique from a few pages ago where I don't remember the exact details. I can easily scroll back and forth with an iPad, not so much with a Kindle. -I want to see if a book covers a relatively obscure topic. The iPad or my computer let me do a search through a PDF for keywords and preview each section containing the keyword, a Kindle doesn't.
- nodata 15y agoI expect the OP was talking about reading fiction books. You don't skim fiction.
- yew 15y agoThe big problem with LCD screens is that they give some people headaches. I can't do any serious reading on one. The attendant battery life problems are also a pretty serious issue.
- pooriaazimi 15y agoI too like reading on iPad more then kindles, but iPad is unfortunately not very fast either. Opening an interactive ebook (the ones they introduced last month) on my iPad 2 takes about 2 seconds...