Can the iPad realistically replace a Kindle?

Hi Everyone,
I was looking for opinions and thoughts on the iPad being used to replace a dedicated eReader like the Kindle.  I have been a Kindle owner since early 2009 and take it with me everywhere.  It is portable and the free 3G and long battery life have worked very well for me.  I just recenlty picked up an iPad (2) and have found my new best friend for web surfing from the couch.  The iPad is a fantastic tool for web browsing as well as the few games I have played on it.  I have also installed several apps to aid in productivity and it is quickly becoming my new best "friend."  Unfortunatly it is cumbersome to carry both my iPad and my Kindle when I leave the house.  So, I am currently investigating using the iPad exclusivly for my eReader.  Has anyone here done this, or have an opinions on this idea?  From what I can tell, there are only 4 advantages to the Kindle compared to the iPad (as an eReader): Size, battery life, Free 3G (I have the WiFi iPad), and TTS for Kindle books.  The Size isn't that big a deal as I can do so much more on the iPad.  There is no contest when it comes to battery lfe, but the iPad typically lasts "long enough" so this too can be blown off.  Free 3G is a non-issue as no iPad has it for free, plus mine is WiFi only anyway.  I am considering activating my Personal HotSpot on my iPhone though..  Finally TTS, I can find nothing that compares to this (for the Kindle App) on the iPad.  However, I have not really used TTS on my Kindle either so I am not sure it is a deal breaker. Thanks in advance!
Rich S.

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A very strong reason to dump Kindle is that it is not ePub3 compatible. Nothing from Amazon is ePub compatible, even though they now own Stanza which is a reader that supports ePub. ePub is the emerging global standard for displaying any published document in a screen reading format.
Those that are buying eBooks in PDF format are not well informed (notice I refrained from calling them MORONS).
The Apple iPad has one of the best ePub3 readers available today called iBooks, it was just updated to ePub3 about a week or two ago.
ePub is an open source protocol for displaying text on any screen instead of the printed page.
PDF is Portable Document Format and designed to print an exact page of the original printed page, you do not want that on a tablet or EReader and definitely not on a smart phone with its tiny screen.
ePub three is a very advanced ePub format that includes, video, audio, graphics, even the ability to run an app from within the document.
When you have an ePub book or magazine in iBooks you can annotate it, add notes, change the font on the fly, use the built in Dictionary, built in automatic concordance via search, external search of Wikipedia and Google to supplement what you are reading and much more.
You can tap and turn the screen Sepia so there is less white glare for easy on the eyes prolonged reading.
You can email your notes from within the book to others.
EPub also allows you to have active hypertext links to other parts of the document if the author included them to begin with.

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