[peakdarkpattern]

Reference or casual/fiction reading?

I ask because I found the standard sized Ipad to be slightly heavy for bedtime and commute reading, whereas the small Ipad (no retina) was more pleasant experience.

I would really love a Retina quality smaller sized Ipad as long as it maintains battery life quality but considering just going Kindle for day to day and full sized Ipad as textbook / video replacement.

[ChuckMcM]

Primarily reference, although I recently read the Daemon/Freedom series on it and it was sufficient for that application, my wife much prefers the Nook e-paper device for fiction. I agree it can be heavy for bedtime reading but for commuting I usually have my bag on my lap and read with the ipad on top of it so I don't get any weight at all (other than the bag of course)

[sliverstorm]

Personally I strongly prefer my Kindle for linear text (e.g. novels). The tablet is primarily for nonlinear and/or mixed-media reading (e.g. reference, magazines, etc)