09-07-2012, 09:02 PM
M A V I C wrote:
The Fire has a hard time with PDFs and doesn't support epubs. Plus, the quality of their content is much lower than Apple's.
Are you talking about the native app support for ePub and PDF? The iPad can't read ePubs without installing an app as far as I know, so why knock the Fire because of the same limitation? You will need to add an app for ePub support on either device. Similarly, while the iPad can read PDFs natively, there's no easy way to deal with a collection of PDFs without downloading an app. The out of the box experience for PDF would seem to be similarly disappointing on either device; perhaps, for different reasons, but disappointing none the less.
As an aside, why does the native PDF viewer on my iPad properly display a PDF so it fills the screen, but iBooks defaults to a zoomed out tiny view? Also frustrating, after manipulating the PDF to fill the screen, iBooks resets the default view once I swipe to previous or next pages. A quick double tap to zoom doesn't work, because it zooms in way too far to see the whole page. I'm guessing I missed a setting somewhere; so yes, I will need to revisit the config to be sure iBooks is not acting funky by design.
M A V I C wrote: The higher resolution screen doesn't somehow make the content better. If anything, it'll just make the quality problems more obvious. I'd give specifics but I'd probably be violating a NDA or two.
You don't mean PDFs, right? I don't believe Apple sell PDFs? Can you point to a published report accessible to the general public that states why iBooks is a better store than Kindle store? By better, how does iBooks surpass the Kindle in quality or selection of "book" content.