Ken Nelson

I read using the iPad Kindle app last evening. It works pretty well, and it is nice in that I can read with the light turned off.  The fonts rendered nicely and turning pages was easy (just tap the left or right side of the page).

My daughter enjoyed the iPad, she “customized it” with new wallpaper, and put a few games on it.

I’ll look forward to the case for it arriving, as it feels very fragile  and vulnerable as is.

I browsed around the Internet and found the lack of Flash moderately irritating. I don’t recall the sites, just stuff found off popurls.com and other aggregator sites, but every so often I’d hit a page and nothing would happen and I’d see “you need to download flash”.   Desktop users are usually the collateral damage in desktop share wars, as those using the desktop seem to be the last consideration of the vendors.

So it remains a decent reader. But I don’t see me making content on it.  Perhaps light e-mailing, but that is about it.

And I still hate the “no trial” policy of the iTunes store.