E-Book Talk: iPad Usability, Google Books

It's easy to dismiss the iPad as a giant iPhone, and it's certainly easy to find fault in Apple's growing might as a mega-tech company. In other words, Steve Jobs is kind of crazy lately.

What we can't deny, though, is the significant change that the iPad heralds in usability. The fact that the device is the size of a book, and sits in the hands in similar ways to a closed book, is of note. And yes, incidentally, you can also read a book on the iPad. You can also do thousands of other tasks...