If you are someone who likes to buy new books quite frequently, then having a Kindle will save you on a great deal of money, as it'll become your own handheld personal library. Up until fairly recently, there was no real contender to the Kindle, but with the introduction of the iPad by Apple, we can now hold that device up as competition.

One of the advantages that Amazon has over its competition is that it's one of the largest bookstores in the world, with a clientele that is already willing to purchase their device. The iPad device has Apple backing it, which speaks for something, when you consider their track record.

When we look at the performances of both devices, we see that they are quite different. The Kindle is basically an eBook reader that is unable to do anything outside of display eBooks to you. Although the recent

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