From the review of Glaser and Son, both of them seems to satisfy with the features on this new media- iPad when they are comparing with kindle e-books. There are few things that are appreciated by them such as the easy navigation system which is similar to iPhone, games function in iPad , quick download application, color screen as compare to kindle e-books, longer battery life and also the fast start up speed which could be compete with laptop (Glaser 2010).
iPad is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a typical laptop. People see this new media as the substitute of laptop, as iPad has all the functions that can be done by a laptop. As compare to kindle e-books, iPad may preferred by most people especially children due to the colors and pictures provided in iPad. However, Kindle e-books only provide black and white screen with only words, children may eventually lost their interest in reading. Nowadays, pictures with texts are more preferable and expectable for readings where people no longer want documents which are full of texts only (Walsh 2006).
Kindle e-books has some features that are appreciated by people too. One of it will be its storage capability where it could store almost 200 books with the quick downloads of electronic contents(Pattuelli & Rabina 2009).However , iPad is much more than an e-book or digital periodical reader as it can do the tasks brilliantly where some people actually thinks that it is better than the Amazon Kindle ( Mossberg 2010). One of the factors that makes iPad superior than Kindle e-books is the games function provided in iPad. People can play games and read books at the same time using the iPad. However, kindle e-book only can use to read books without any gaming function. This may be more appeal to youngster where nowadays people want things to be integrated, namely "Many in One".
Futhermore, iPad has a bigger screen compare to kindle e-books. With bigger screen, people can view the whole story from the website where previously in iPhone, people need to scroll down to the bottom to see the remaining story. Besides, one of the advantages of this big screen is that people do not need to leave the context of main view in order to access to the extra information or tools as it will appears in semi-transparent form above the main view (Adams n.d.). However, this cannot be provide by Kindle e-books as it does not has a large enough screen where eventually broke up the images from the text where it destroys the layout of the page.
Glaser, M 2010, “ Glaser & Son review the iPad”, TheMediaShift, viewed 3 June 2010, < http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/glaser-son-review-the-ipad098.html>
Mossberg, WS 2010, “ Apple iPad review: Laptop killer? Pretty close” , The wall street journal: Digital network, viewed 3 June 2010, < http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20100331/apple-ipad-review/>
Adams, D n.d., Chapter 1: What makes a killer iPad App, media.wiley.com.
Pattuelli, MC & Rabina, D 2009, “ Forms, effects, function: LIS students’ attitudes toward portable e-book readers, Research paper, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 228-244.
Walsh, M 2006, “The ‘textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal text”, Journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37.
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