Why My iPad Rocks

So I have about seven blog posts to write, all of which hopefully will come out in the next week, because I have had a ton going on and I want to tell you about absolutely all of it.  First and foremost of which, why I am very impressed with my iPad.

Now, some of you will remember that I've wanted an iPad for a while, and I kind of couldn't justify it for a long time, until I got swamped and discovered all these productivity apps and made a slightly emotional choice to just buy one.

In the past four days (which were nightmarishly, fabulously busy) I've:

1.  Used my iPad as a portable credit card machine.  By virtue of Paypal, we were able to let all attendees of the IGNITE the NITE fundraiser pay for tickets, donations, and silent auction items with their credit cards via my iPad.  Umm, how insanely cool is that?  I'm still impressed with myself for thinking of it.  And I will go ahead and say we got a lot more money because of it.  (More to come on the wild success of the fundraiser at a later date).

2.  Read a book while waiting in line for Lois Lowry to sign my books.  It was ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, which I loved.  For so many reasons.  Hopefully will put a Goodreads review up soon.

3.  Browsed the web from my hotel room, hotel lobby, and even the streets of New York.

4. Used it to pull up my electronic bus pass that wouldn't come up on my phone

5.  Found a restaurant near my hotel.

6.  Took notes on the editor sessions that I attended and then synced and archived the notes back to my home computer wirelessly.

7.  Live tweeted during the conference.

8.  Played Angry Birds when I got just a wee bit bored.

9.  Watched several episodes of Greys Anatomy from Netflix on the bus ride.

Ummm….that's a pretty groovy four days, if I do say so myself.  So overall?  iPad rocks!  One of the best investments I've made for my personal sanity.