Can my Wife and I share an iPad?

My Wife and I both have an iPhone 4, and have our own set of Apps, E-mail, photos music, etc. We have pre-ordered the New iPad. My question is - can we use multiple accounts on the same iPad - or does it have to be either/or?
More specifically, the only thing I'd like to have shared is our photos - can I set up the iPad so that pictures from both our photostreams appear on the one iPad?
Thanks!

re: Sharing...
I can't speak to what is different with iOS 5 and iCloud because we're still on 4.3.4, but I'll soon update to 5.1, since it fixes some concerns we had with 5.0 and 5.0.1. (And I want to get the new iPhoto app!)
We have a 64GB iPad 2 WiFi-only.
My wife and I 'share' an iPad in this way:
My wife has always been 'PC-averse'. She hated using Windows and MS Office at work. She recently retired, and needed 'something' to send and receive email and occasionally browse the web, and shop online.  A netbook would have sufficed, but still had Windows. The iPad 2 is perfect for her, because it is 'instant on' in standby with a smart cover, has huge battery life for her occasional use (she checks email once a day, and we charge it every couple of weeks), and still has lots of functionality, (and free apps for me to play with!) well beyond her basic needs.
Email:
She retrieves all her email exclusively on her iPad.
I get all my email on my MacBook.
Apps:
You do not need to sign-in/sign-out to use the Apps you've downloaded.
All apps are available to everyone, but...
we don't usually use social networking apps on the iPad, and I did notice that the Twitter free app stays 'signed-in' all the time, if you let it.
AND... Update requires signing out of one Apple ID and signing-in with the other Apple ID in order to update ALL the Apps. It's not difficult. If you're in one Apple ID and Update requires the other Apple ID, you are simply shown the Apple ID that 'purchased' the App, and prompted for that password.  If you cancel, you can let the other person do 'update' when they're signed in.
My wife uses almost exclusively 'Home Page' apps: Mail, Maps, Safari, IMDB, WeatherBug, a Bible app, and iPod (Music Player).
I've downloaded apps I'm interested in and put them in folders on additional Apps pages, separate from the 'Home page' that she uses. My apps are a few games, almost 100 photo apps, a few music apps, and one magazine app subscription that was free with a print subscription.
Music, Video, podcasts
All the music on the iPad are her songs. We've downloaded a few free TV episodes, but don't rent or buy movies on the iPad.
All my music and podcasts are on my MacBook exclusively.
Photos:
I shoot most photos with a Canon point & shoot and upload everything to my MacBook iPhoto.
I upload family event photos directly from the SD memory cards to her iPad 2 with the camera connection kit. I've used the built-in iPad cameras to 'play' with the photo apps I've downloaded, and occasionally I manipulate some of the Canon images. If I want a copy of one or two back on my Mac, I email them from the iPad.
Backup/Sync:
Since we're still on iOS 4, backup and sync are done on two user identities on my MacBook, rather than iCloud. Neither account is set to automatically sync. I do only manual backups on both accounts.
Problems?
Not really. It took a while to 'grow' organically into this arrangement. Once I accidentally synced to my account, and all the apps I had downloaded moved out of the folders I had created, so I had to re-create and re-arrange them. Time consuming, but no apps or data was lost.
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