Thanks le nubian. I'll look into Hover.

ETA: I'll probably stick with my lifehacker-inspired choice of 1&1, just because I can transfer for $3.99 instead of $15. If I dislike them for some reason I'll move to Hover. Good to know they have good support.

So my new toy, Idris the iPad 2, wants a word processor. And there are people waiting for me to finish writing the fic I started before my laptop hard drive took the big dirt nap. any recommendations? Is Pages worth $10?

Pages is awesome.

I've used Pages for iPad and it'a good Word Processor. There are some issues with what will cleanly move between Pages for OS X and Pages for iOS, but nothing major.

Pages is great, but I am not sure I would call it a fully featured word processor (like Word is).

I actually tend to do most of my writing (when using the ipad) on a text program and then I bring it to the computer for formatting.

What is the difference between a text program and a word processor?

Well, let me tell you how I use the terms:

when I write (and need to write anything of length (say 500-1000 words or more), I typically will use text programs to write. On a mac, my favorite is Scrivener, but on an ipad, I use Byword, Phraseology, or Plaintext.

I don't really need to format my writing (and I find it to be a distraction to format much as I am writing beyond paragraph breaks and the like. So it is helpful to me to just write 70-80% of what I need to do and then bring it into to Word to format later.

The apps above gave very basic formatting (underline, bold, font choices, etc.) but no "keep with next" and stuff like that.

I think of a text editor as a program that edits plain text only. So no formatting at all. But I'm coming from a programming point of view, where code is always in plain text.

the apps above save in plain text, but use multi-markdown.

except scrivener!

I'd never heard of multi-markdown. Is that what the kids are into these days?

I feel old.