I think of editpad as the "stays out of my way" text editor -does not have the limitations and quirks of notepad and the compatatively small feature set is great when you are not going to be using those features anyway. Would not use it for heavy coding , but great if you are writing a 25 line scrip. Would not use it for full featured note taking, but great to write the equivalent of an electronic sticky note.

Does anyone here have some USB hubs that they really like and that can provide a decent amount of power? I'd like one that has at least 7 ports, and probably more like 10+ and that can handle at least two iPhones and four iPads and then still handle a couple of jump drives or portable hard drives when needed.

Commodore 64 transformed into hybrid bass keytar.

Wow.

So I bought an iPad on Saturday. My initial reaction is "It's very pretty!"

Then I bought an ebook for the iBooks reader, which was cool except I then discovered that Apple doesn't have an iBooks reader for OS X--apparently in order to get more iPad sales.

For folks who have iPads, what ebook reader do you use?

For folks who have iPads, what ebook reader do you use?

I have several installed, but mostly I use the Kindle app because that's where all my ebooks are from.

If you didn't have an investment in Kindle ebooks, which reader do you think is better?

I'm not just concerned about how the reader works, but how the whole ebook ecosystem (price, book availability, DRM, etc) works on a particular reader.

I think I'm mostly going to by ebooks (instead of dead-tree books) from now on, and I wanna find a good platform before I start investing $ in lots of books.

I don't use our iPad 3 for reading much, since for me it's too heavy.

I've been using an iPod touch for reading for a while, mostly with the Kindle app or occasionally iBooks for stuff I can get without DRM.

That said, I think I'm going to be switching to the Nexus 7. It's light enough to hold while reading and the Kindle application on it is allowed to let me buy a book from the end of the free sample, which the iPod Touch Kindle application cannot.

The only DRM-controlled ecosystem I would consider investing in is Amazon's. No one else comes close in amount of content and availability of reader applications.

I recently bought a number of technical ebooks and was pleasantly surprised to find that the publishers offered DRM-free ebooks that worked very well on iOS and Android readers. One was from Manning and another from O'Reilly.

tommy, I would either use Amazon or B&N and stick with it. The selection is pretty comparable and similarly priced, and they each support basically every device out there. You won't get an ideal DRM world at the moment - the publishing industry is still pushing for DRM that is sillily restrictive. There are small publishing worlds that aren't awful - SmashWords, Baen, etc - but the main books are still locked down. I think B&N's ePubs are slightly more open, but just slightly.

Perhaps the best thing to do, if you don't mind doing things that might be illegal, is learn how to break the DRM from Kindle books or Nook epubs. That will give you security against the future. I turn my Kindle books into DRM-free Mobi files backed up on my computer, which I will be able to convert into any format I want in the future if need be.

The userbase of both Kindle and Nook books is high enough that I think you're pretty secure in their usability for the foreseeable future.