I like reading on iPad.

June 23 2010, 12:32pm

My iPad has been with me all the time since its debut seven weeks ago. And I have to say, I like to read on it. So do Tim Van Damme, Shawn Blanc and Mike Rohde. I expected iPad to be a great device for casual consumption of “new media”. You don’t need a big device to listen to audio, but video podcasts and the like are an area where iPad really shines. Make yourself comfortable on a couch or in the garden and watch presentations without dragging around your fat TV or a bulky laptop that’s uncomfortable to hold lying in the grass. iPad rocks as a video consumption device and tools like Air Video make it even more comfortable since they remove the need to sync new stuff onto the device. I’ve found myself watching and sharing more video content lately. Reading in the ipad is a joy. Period. (@maxvoltar) I’ve had Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy1 in the rack next to my desk for seven or eight months now, I barely touched it. I’ve been a bookworm since I learned to decipher the first characters in primary school, but carrying around another 900 page book on campus everyday…well, my bag got too heavy. I bought all three books in the iBook store and read one after another over the course of the last three weeks. A Joy. Today finally brought Ashes, a companion application for Shaun Inman’s feedreader Fever°, which runs on iPad. Though browsing the web is a great experience, using Fever° on iPad is plain impossible. I tried it once, it sucked. With Ashes, all my feed reading happens on my iPad as well. Whoops. I like reading on iPad. And I didn’t even start to tell you about Instapaper, a service which makes you click a bookmarklet each and everytime you want to read an article on the web. Because you actually want to read it inside of Instapaper, on your iPad. Oh, and don’t get me started on the whole Flash discussion. I don’t miss it, it’s blocked on my Macs as well. 1) Now go buy these books, they’re amazing: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy Bundle: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest