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This looks neat but I find it weird that they targeted the iPhone first instead of the iPad. Isn't reading on iPhone hard?

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I read the entire "Game of Thrones" book series and "The Count of Monte-Cristo" (and most of the other reading I've done in the last two years) on a iPod touch.

The new 5th Generation screen is quite nice in Landscape mode.

Wow... I tried reading with the Kindle app on my Samsung Note. I couldn't do it. The 7 inch tablet on the other hand...

I do most of my reading on mass transit, so carrying 100 books in my shirt pocket means I always have something to read.

I initially read on a Kindle 3rd Generation eReader, but they were pretty fragile (I had three break on me in 18-months time), so I got used to using my iPod Touch. I'm so used to it now, I've lost interest in reading physical books.

The retina display makes a big difference.

Not to me. But then, I used to read audiobooks on my Palm Pilot in 2001.

you read "audio" books?

How can a book itself be "audio", anyway? And if books become audio by default someday, what will current books be called? "Written" books?

I propose: "I audio-read an audio-book".

psah, haven't lived unless you did it on the 1k.

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