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To shop for Kindle books, you must use a Web browser to shop at Amazon’s Kindle Bookstore fortunately, Mobile Safari on the iPad is great at that. Each is free, and each is linked to its own dedicated store. The two e-reading apps I use most on my iPad are Amazon’s Kindle app and Apple’s iBooks app. In fact, the biggest question now isn’t whether or not I should use the iPad to read, but which app should I use? I now enjoy reading books on my iPad almost as much as enjoy doing so on my Kindle 3 in certain situations, the iPad actually has some advantages. Compared to the Kindle, with its paper-like e-Ink technology and super light weight, I thought the iPad would be hard on the eyes and clunky.īoy, was I wrong. Unfortunately, the Kindle keyboard does not come with any number keys so you will have to select the Sym key and select the numbers from the pop-up box.Before Apple released the first iPad, I doubted that I’d ever want to use it as my primary reading device. In the message box you must enter the location number you want to jump to. You can jump to a particular location in the book by selecting Menu and Go to… If you look at the bottom of a book you can see the location points displayed. To alleviate this problem Amazon uses the “ Location” feature to allow jumping to sections of a book. If the book is very long it can be a pain to use the Next/Previous buttons to jump through the pages. Unfortunately, this is impossible to do on a Kindle and at times it can be a problem if you need to jump to a certain section of a book. ClippingsĪfter selecting text, making notes within a book, or bookmarking a particular page you will find a My Clippings option on the home page of your Kindle.Īll your notes are displayed here but the separation between the sections is not always clear and it is a little difficult to navigate your various clippings.Ī friend mentioned to me that she did not want to give up reading books because she loved the ability to flip through the pages.

Nevertheless, this is a good way of sharing a passage that is particularly interesting or striking. This feature would be more useful if the title and author of the book was also displayed. You can now see the selected quote and your message displayed on your Facebook and Twitter profiles.Ĭlicking the custom link displays the selected text. This will open a small text box allowing you to input a small message of your choice. Next, select the Alt and Enter key to share the text. This will reformat the article into a book format, allowing you to read through it as though it were another book on the Kindle. Once the article has opened select Menu and select Article Mode. Once you have zoomed in select the article. Then use the Enter key to zoom into the section of the page which has the article you want to read. If you browse to a website with a lot of articles (such as ) you can use the “ Article Mode” to read the article without any of the other distractions on the web site.įirst, browse to the web site of your choice. There is one other useful trick that the Kindle’s browser has.

Nevertheless, as you can see the page itself looks relatively clear and there is no content that is hidden or blocked.

However, for something with dynamic content, such as a web site, it makes navigations and usability difficult. Further, since the display is not touch-screen moving the cursor requires you to use the D-Pad.

This is great for reading as you are generally looking at a static page. Selecting one of these launches the site immediately, or you can select Menu and Enter URL to browse to a web site not on the list.Īs I have mentioned in my previous article, the Kindle uses a special display technology called E-Ink.