{"id":252053,"date":"2010-01-30T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/30\/infographic-costbenefit-analysis-of-the-entry-level-ipad-and-six-other-ereaders\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T22:00:38","slug":"infographic-costbenefit-analysis-of-the-entry-level-ipad-and-six-other-ereaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/252053","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Cost\/benefit analysis of the entry-level iPad and six other ereaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the tradition of the Billshrink<\/a> infographics, Darren Beckett has thrown together this nice little infographic<\/a> comparing the entry-level iPad’s cost and functions to other popular e-readers like the Amazon Kindle DX<\/a> and the Fusion Garage Joo Joo<\/a>. While the iPad ties as the most expensive on the list, I think it’s fairly obvious if you need anything more than a simple e-reader, the iPad offers the most bang for your buck.<\/p>\n

As a guy who’s just written his first novel and a long-time bookaholic, I’ve have always said I’ll never go with any kind of e-reader. I love the feel of a book in my hands. Paper books are romantic in a way electronic books could never be. Plus, you just look really educated when you’ve got scores of them lining your shelves ;) Also, when I go to the beach, I’m not worried at all about leaving my book when I go for a swim. If my $500 e-reader got lifted, that would be another story.<\/p>\n

That being said, the iPad is starting to look appealing as an e-reader based on the videos I’ve seen (love those page-flips), but what’s more is the iPad has also gotten me interested in the Kindle (which I’m hoping to find a friend with one so I can do an iPad\/Kindle e-reader-function-only review).<\/p>\n

Before the iPad, I couldn’t imagine not having hundreds of books lining my shelves. And now… well, I might need to find other things to fill those shelves with. But what say you guys and gals? If you’ve thought about getting an e-reader, would you consider going with an iPad now, since it offers a lot more functionality for not much more money?<\/p>\n

TUAW<\/a>Infographic: Cost\/benefit analysis of the entry-level iPad and six other ereaders<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the tradition of the Billshrink infographics, Darren Beckett has thrown together this nice little infographic comparing the entry-level iPad’s cost and functions to other popular e-readers like the Amazon Kindle DX and the Fusion Garage Joo Joo. While the iPad ties as the most expensive on the list, I think it’s fairly obvious if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}