[adw]

If you can hook up a printer, this does everything my sister (she's a social worker) needs to do with a computer, cheaper and more reliably.

[rinich]

(That actually gets me thinking — do we know anything about the iPad's printer compatibility? Did I miss some announcement about that?)

[adw]

We don't. Looks like the big gap in the featureset to me.

[telemachos]

I work at a school considering a laptop program. This was our first question, and we couldn't find anything in specs that explicitly talked about this.

I have to assume that you will be able to print wirelessly, but there's that tiny fear that somehow you can't as a protective feature for the ebooks. Silly question, but can you print from a Kindle or a Nook?

[rinich]

I've never seen a way to do so from a Kindle. I'd imagine it would be risky for them to offer that service: What's there to stop you from printing your own book?

[LogicHoleFlaw]

The cost of paper and binding, for one. That's why physical books are so rarely pirated when compared to digital media. Printing a few pages sounds perfectly reasonable to me though.

[baxident]

I can print wirelessly on my MacBook, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to on an iPad.

[pyre]

Except that the iPad runs iPhone OS not Mac OS. Well, I guess you could be running the iPhone OS on your MacBook...