My iPad

I might have mentioned that I won an iPad thanks to the guys over at www.bitterwallet.co.uk. Now I've been using it for a few weeks I figured it was time for my thoughts.

I have to say I've been very impressed with it, it's very polished and, unlike the iPhone, the battery life is really good.

In fact my only real gripes are that ios4 still isn't available for iPad (the multitasking would be useful), apps that haven't been written to use the larger screen look blocky when zoomed 2x (not really the iPad's fault) and that I've either got to buy any books I already own again in digital form or spend along time with scanner!

/joke - that wouldn't be remotely practical in addition to the fact that, unless you scan using OCR (and then proof read every page!), it's not going to work as an ebook.

I also discovered that alot of the books I looked for don't exists as ebooks yet and that those that do exist were not significantly cheaper than a physical copy which I find difficult to swallow although I can imagine what the publishing industry's justification for this would be!

Obviously the publishing industry have an advantage over the music industry with regards to digital since it's trivial for home users to convert their existing physical media to digital.