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The kindle uses ePaper, which as you say has the disadvantage of a slow refresh rate, but the advantage that it is better visible in strong light.

Do you find that this trade-off is in the iPad's favour? i.e. that you never read in strong light, but all the books that you read require animation?

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Easily in the ipad's favor, yes. You encounter problems with the refresh rate when trying to read somewhat more complex books, eg anything that requires flipping back/forth, or large scanned books. Then the kindle browser is horrible, & I've been downloading educational videos from iTunes, etc. Id go as far as to say the kindle is only good for novels.

But yeah, the iPad glare is pretty bad, I have to read indoors.

For me the major downside of the iPad for reading is not the lack of strong light tolerance, but the annoying glare on the screen. For me, the ipad is in the 'good-enough' league of eBooks.

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