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Comment by Derbasti | Hacker News Reader

So, would I still be able to read my whole library of books offline on my iPad?

Seriously, if the Kindle app would get pulled from my iPad, the iPad would lose half its value for me. That would be a terrible shame.

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You own a Kindle and prefer to read Kindle books on the iPad?

When I didn't own a kindle I used to buy and read a lot of kindle books on my iPod touch. Even now that I own a kindle I share it with the wife, and we might both be on a bus/airplane without internet wanting to read.

I really hope this is not the way forward.

It entirely depends on the book.

My second-generation Kindle sees a lot of use for novels. My iPad+Kindle.app get a lot of use for software books, textbooks, and other things with a lot of fixed-flow content and tables that benefit from the much larger screen.

I've been using my iPad for software books. The speed of search/navigation is critical for that.

I own a K2 and K3, in addition to my iPad. If I'm reading linear text outdoors in bright sunlight, or at the beach, I prefer the kindles. For all other situations (Office, Home, Bed, textbooks, random-text (references) - I use my iPad. I've got about 15 textbooks (though I ended up having to buy Radia Perlman's Interconnections from O'Reilly's "Safari Books Online" one PDF chapter at a time and read it through goodreader) and about thirty linear-text books. I'd say the ratio is about 70/30 right now in favor of the iPad.

I don't own a Kindle, but I still occasionally buy books in the Kindle store to read them on my iPad. I like the iPad for technical books and occasionally fiction. But reading on the iPad is slightly more straining than reading from paper, so for leasure reading I prefer paper.

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