ipad vs kindle: CAGE MATCH!

[rmd]

OKAY YOU OVERLY OPINIONATED INTERNET PEOPLE! CONVINCE ME! OR SOMETHING.

I need to choose a $SIGNIFICANT_MILESTONE gift for someone. iPad? or Kindle?

iPad has the advantage of doing much more - apps! widgets! other stuff!
Kindle has the advantage of not requiring a separate pay-by-the-month data plan for cell access. Plus more battery life.

thoughts?

I figure either an ipad and a small itunes store gift card (and possibly a small amazon gift card for ebooks), or a kindle and a larger amazon gift card.

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[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

Oh. One thing might tip this irrevocably into the iPad camp, depending on who you're buying it for.

Do they like comic books?

If so, you owe it to yourself to check out the various comic-reading apps for the iPad. OMG purty. This display really, really works for comic art, and the comic readers are using this really cool tech that permits you to zoom in while following an "optimum path for the eye to follow" that's encoded into the comic book data files.

I've got a bunch of free comics (there are a lot, and the set keeps changing from week to week for promotional reasons), and bought the first issue of "Sandman" as an in-app purchase. OMG purty.