Reading in bright light

I bought the ipad for my wife to mostly read ebooks. We had it on vacation, as I'm sure many have experienced: it was extremely difficult to read outdoors in bright light. has anyone found a polarized film for the screen which might help that situation?

I've tried several. The one that came closest was the one from Power Support, but it wasn't good enough, IMHO. I use antiglare on my ipod and that works fine, but on the iPad it just diffuses the glare more, rather than eliminate it. And of course it does nothing about the way the screen washes out.
The ipad is just plain hard to see in bright light, I'm afraid. I had hoped the ipad 2 might be better, but it doesn't seem to be any different in this respect, alas.
It's one reason a lot of ipad owners have kept their kindles, too.

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