I’ve finally had the chance to debate iPad and Kindle between myself really.  I probably spent about a week with an iPad (it wasn’t mine), and I now own a Kindle, so obviously I made my decision as to which device I would like, but for heaven’s sake, why did I choose a Kindle over an iPad?

Truth be told, I didn’t.  I debated between the two devices taking a number of factors into account, and how much I really value each aspect of each device.  When I ended up borrowing the iPad, I found that I was primarily using it as an e-reader.  The Apple iBooks app was quite nice and it had the store built into it.  Heck, I started getting into comic books with the iPad as well and quite enjoyed that, but since I spent about 95% of my time on it as as e-reader, I would use that as the basis of my decision. Read more