iPad Vs Kindle: My Top Tech To Help You Read More Books !
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- It's time to address the classic iPad Vs Kindle (Vs Books Vs Audiobooks Vs AI Tools) question! This video will find you the best tech to help you read more books, read more consistently & actually remember more of what you read! 📣 Get a 20% discount at shortform.com/bettercreating to start learning more, faster, and remember everything you learn + 🎬 WATCH THIS NEXT: • How To Collect Knowled... to learn How to Collect Knowledge In A Notion Second Brain.
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🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 iPad Vs Kindle Vs Books Vs Audiobooks Vs AI?!
01:15 Pros & Cons of Physical Books
02:10 The Kindle and building a Knowledge Capture System
05:35 iPad for Reading & Note-taking
08:12 Book Summary Tech
10:07 E-Ink Tablets & Alternative Reading Devices
12:18 Audiobooks, AI Text To Speech and The Future of Reading
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I use my kindle for reading at home specially before bed, and I carry my iPad Mini everywhere using focus which turn on automatic greyscale mode
Ah nice approach! Thanks for sharing :)
YES !! for the iPad mini 6. its is absolutely fantastic for me. Plus being able to listen to audiobooks without needing ear phones like you do on Kindle.
I have mine with matte screen protector, grayscale mode, auto-brightness and reduced white point. These have actually helped a lot! I made a Shortcut button so I can automate it and toggle them in case I want to use my iPad Mini for other purposes.
My favorite thing is to use my iPad mini 6. I use it to read and also audiobooks. plus I am read and listen and read at the same time on my mini and it follows along with you while reading!! I do not use physical books very often anymore. I do buy them for my shelf still lol. I would say the iPad is for real the best way to read. My kindle I use for ebooks only, KU, or if I have a slight headache but want to read.
Terrific video. I agree with virtually all of what you had to say. If a book is particularly important to you it may be good idea to buy a physical copy, if only as backup should the digital world somehow evaporate and steel your books with it. But, I think that is a small risk indeed, and even physical books are vulnerable to fire, flood and going lost. I use a Kindle and iPad. The Kindle is certainly easier to read in all kinds of lighting and has a wonderfully long battery life. My iPad is largely relegated to reading articles and the like or for short periods. In the end, in this loud and HD world of ours, those of us who have succumbed to its charms are left to try to regain the joys of simply reading, whether by way of physical books or your device of choice.
I have a kindle and an ipad. I read and listen to a lot of ebooks on Libby and BorrowBox which can’t be done on the kindle (unless you live in the USA) so I read more on my iPad and for this reason am thinking of ditching the kindle in favour of a mini ipad which i can carry with me and read whenever.
Another thing that really helps me as I get older is the ability to enlarge font on tablets. Print books' text is too small for me anymore. I guess authors and publishers are incentivized to make font small so that it's less cost to print (less pages, less ink etc.) and maximizing profit.
Nice perspective thanks :)
For purely reading purposes, nothing beats Kindle Paperwhite. But I do read books on iPad mini 6.
I love my kindle and my I pad! I got my I pad 9th gen for school but I also like to use it for reading if I need some color when reading!
Yes, I’m a “split-screen iPad: Kindle app on the left, Notability app on the right” kind of guy.
Kindle reader is great, but many tech books won’t even load. And black-and-white graphics/images often don’t cut it, if the tech book can load.
Thanks for sharing, interesting about the tech books!
Love the video, also would love your suggestion on buying an ebook from Amazon or apple books? which one would you prefer?
Thanks 🤗 I tend, rightly or wrongly, towards Amazon since I can combine kindle and audible at moment. But I would love Speechify to make their audiobook system be one where any book can be added, then I would buy from the platform I most like / agree with :)
I started with a Kindle 2 in 2009 and read 100s of books on it while also eventually using the kindle app on iPhone and MacBook. Currently I no longer use the kindle and use kindle app on iPad 10th and iPhone. People are often surprised to see me reading on my iPhone but I’ve read dozens of books start to finish on my phone.
Can i make handwritten notes (with a stylus pen) in the ebooks in Kindle?
I use my kindle for books and my ipad for reading comic/graphic novels and general productivity.
Love that :)
iPad mini in do not disturb focus mode. Also cuts down on my number of devices.
Yes! I’m so tempted by the mini. Sounds like a great option. :)
@@BetterCreating got my wife one as well. She loves it.
same here. the iPad mini is the best reading experience in my opinion. but I also listen/read books together and that function is fantastic because it reads it to you and highlight the words and changes the pages for you for ease of use to reading.
This is so helpful. I have had 2 Kindles and I just don't like the tech. I have an Apple trade-in gift card to spend and I'm giving the iPad a try!
For fiction a Kindle is great though I would go for a Tolino (I have no idea if those are available outside of Germany), because you aren‘t limited to the Kindle store and adding any other ebook is really easy.
For non-fiction the IPad is superior over any eink reader. I like to work with Zotero. Easy note taking, it‘s kind of free, easy citation if you have to write scientific stuff. But, get a small one. My IPad 12.9 is quite big. Since I use it as a computer replacment it‘s ok and if you do scientific reading you usually don‘t hold books in your hand, because it‘s inefficient for note taking. Distraction might be a disavantage, but just delete anything distractive. Problem solved.
Excellent video, Simon. I am a bit of a mess as to what method to follow at reading, because I basically use them almost all 🤭 As a bookworm, I always prefer physical books, which I only read at home because I can easily take notes in my notes app in the iPhone. While commuting, I carry my kindle because it is light. And as an addition, I love listening to audiobooks in BookBeat, which has been an amazing discovery for me. I own an iPad, which is my replacement for my last Macbook, but I find reading with it tiring and inconvenient when I read for fun. Reading for learning I do prefer to do in the iPad for the possibility of taking notes at the same time with my Magic Keyboard. As for distractions…well I get distracted with every single device I use, so…😅😅
Haha, sounds like all is well really in your reading world! Thanks for sharing: will look up bookbeat!
Haha, sounds like all is well really in your reading world! Thanks for sharing: will look up bookbeat!
What iPad case does this guy have?
most of these videos focus on reading books. Few say anything about reading pdfs. When reading a pdf I want to scroll, not go page by page. Unfortunately scrolling doesn't work with the E-inks. Also, I would like to have a pdf reader without those annoying editing functions constantly being activated when scrolling.
If you haven't already, you should consider reading "The Creative Act: A Way Of Being" by the author Rick Rubin. As creatives, this is a awesome read!
Thanks for the recommendation - another UA-camr friend at the studios I work at also recommending this - I’ll put it on the reading list thanks! :)
What about just going to the library and renting books,
I appreciate this but definitely should have at least mentioned a library mixed with computer/iPhone to do a lot of the same stuff and no additional products
Yes, of course, it's a good remember - there is always the local library. Honestly - the focus of this video is on type of books and how you best read for you, not where you source them from. But definitely also consider, second hand bookshops, local businesses, local libraries, going to large city libraries and Archives, charity shops and online re-sellers for physical books depending on your preferences :)
Yes. I use Libby app + Kindle app
Do you have a link for the white controller you were using to show the gaming on the ipad at 7:45?
Kindle books are often more expensive than physical books. Amazon monopoly = too little competition in the ebook market.
What I believe is ipad has really been distracting for me i dont use ipad for reading until i have an exam
I love my Kindle, but I think there are some advantages of physical books that got missed out here (and as some already mentioned, libraries are an option to help with the cost, and personally I often buy mine cheaply secondhand on abebooks): being able to leave the house with only one book rather than a whole selection in my pocket actually really helps me focus and get on with reading. Just like many of us sit down in front of Netflix and spend hours choosing what to watch, at which point we’re too tired to actually watch it, it’s an issue with me and my kindle library. Can’t imagine I’m the only one. I also find physical books really helpful when there’s lots of flicking back and referring to things mentioned earlier or graphs or tables. Much quicker and easier to find the place.
"not available on the ipad app btw".. yes, blame Apple for that for not allowing a third party store. But given recent changes, we'll see if Amazon goes through the new process for their own portal
Wrong. The UI on Kindle isn’t bad because “the e-ink screen has to refresh all the time.” It’s because the processor on the Kindle is barely fit to power a calculator. There are plenty of smooth, 60Hz, fully responsive Android e-ink devices (almost exclusively from random Chinese brands). E-readers are the best way to read, but they’re also basically an agreed upon scam, like printers and lightbulbs. The tech for an e-reader is absolutely pitiful, but because they’re a niche market and there is virtually no competition outside of 2 or 3 brands, they can get away with selling a device that uses bargain bin components for hundreds of dollars.
Sorry, but the Kindle UX (user experience) is pathetic. Slow and erratic touch responsiveness, buggy, poorly designed and limited software, and pitiful handling of PDFs. Bringing back the physical page buttons would help so you aren't forced to touch the retched screen. And don't get me started on the useless built-in browser, and equally buggy and compromised piece of code. An iPad Mini running the Kindle app is infinitely better. And this is coming from a life-long book lover! I also have the latest Kindle Paperwhite.
Just buy physical books. If and when your platform decides to not support the license for your book you lose access to your library because its digital. Having a physical library means you can always have access to your books later if you decide to reread, sell, or donate a book of your choosing. Plus they look nice on a shelf!
that is why you sail the high sea 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I use the Libby app which is just a digital library app. Haven’t bought a book in years.
Hahahahaha “buying ebooks.” You should take a serious look in the mirror and consider whether you should ever say anything in public again.
I like just having an ipad then using the inferior device.