Zeborah

I've played with a friend's a bit once. It's really nice, it's just that if I want a powerful device I've got my laptop which remains a lot more powerful. (Heavier than an iPad but the only reason I've stopped carrying it everywhere is for the sake of my RSI.)

Part of my aversion is to unnecessary duplication, part is that when a device is trying to be all shiny things it can't focus simply on being a really good ereader, and that's what I want. (Apple's website that takes ridiculously long to load on my poor struggling and refuses to tell you anything useful doesn't help my aversion but isn't the foundation of it.)

Another part is that I'm currently enamoured of open source, open access, and general cross-compatibility and I don't feel that Apple's endless aps really embody the spirit of that (not to even speak of its unjustly applied rules about which aps it accepts). Really the problem is the endless aps: I don't want to have to think about what ap to open, I just want to open my ereader.