**The Classics Application on iPod Touch: A Review**

I've used the Classics application on my iPod Touch, and I was pleasantly surprised by its usability despite the small screen size of the device. Yes, you read that right - the iPod Touch has a pretty small screen, but it's still manageable for occasional reading. In fact, I once read "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" using Classics, which had over 10,000 pages. The app was surprisingly good, and with the option to turn down the brightness in a dark room, it worked quite well.

However, if you're planning to read extensively or tackle large books, I wouldn't recommend using an iPod or iPhone as your primary e-reader. While Classics is okay for occasional reading, it's not ideal for prolonged use.

**Durability and Return Rates of E-Readers**

As for the durability of e-readers, I think the Kindle is probably the most durable option available. I'm basing this on my personal opinion, but I believe the Nook with its two screens might be more prone to damage. The iPad, while a great device, can also be vulnerable to screen breakage if dropped.

Regarding return rates, I don't have any specific information on that front. However, it's worth noting that the Kindle seems to be a solid choice in terms of durability.

**Safari 6 Beta**

Moving on to other topics, there is no beta available for Safari 6 yet. Safari 5 was recently released, and we can expect Safari 6 when the next version of iOS comes out - probably within a year or so.

**Netbooks, Books, or E-Books: Which One Would You Choose?**

If price wasn't an issue and I had to choose one option, I'd go with the iPad. Yes, it's bigger than both the Kindle and Nook, but it offers so much more in terms of functionality and versatility. While some people might not like reading on a backlit screen, I think many would be happy with an iPad.

**iPhone Redesign**

Finally, there are no plans to redesign the iPhone later this year. Apple typically only redesigns the iPhone once a year, and while we've heard about reception issues with the iPhone 4, I don't think they'll change the antenna design anytime soon. They might offer free cases instead.

Thank you for watching this episode of D3 Live!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to this episode of D3 live so this week we will be talking e-readers more specifically the Amazon Kendall third generation the Barnes & Noble Nook as well as the Apple iPad so of course Amazon just released their new Kindle so I'm going to go ahead and start with it now obviously the Kindle is really the one that started out e-readers and it is consistently stayed one of the best if not the best around um with the new one it is a bit thinner uh it is also quite a bit cheaper at only $139 um that's pretty impressive as you know just a couple years ago when the candle came out it was over $400 so that's pretty cool um so basically right now if you want to go ahead and get a Kindle you can pre-order them and they will be uh released in a few weeks here um you'll basically for $139 you will get the standard Kindle which has a 6in eink display uh it will be $139 and you will get Wi-Fi um now if you want to go ahead and bump it up you can go ahead and get it with AT&T 3G um that's not a bad option and of course the 3G is free so you can go ahead and download books from anywhere um personally though I mean it unless you're really you know out and about traveling everything I think I would probably recommend just sticking with the $139 version um you know it's quite a bit cheaper and to be honest yeah like I said guys I mean when you're getting into you know $140 that is almost just like you know you just walk by and go hey I just buy that it's not it's not a big deal it's not something you know you really have to you know get worried about or whatever like maybe the iPad is so guys I think the Kindle is going to remain a really solid choice and for the price it's going to be really solid now of course let's go ahead and move on to the Barnes & Noble milk so there are also two versions of this one is $150 with Wi-Fi and then one is $200 with Wi-Fi as well as 3G um again I'm not a huge fan of 3G and e-readers um I do like the idea of you know of course it's free so you know you're not going to have to pay a lot for for to use the 3G service but then again I don't know I mean Wi-Fi should be good enough to load pretty much anything I mean unless you like to you know I just can't see you know really using an e-reader out in the middle of nowhere to download books I mean it's not a big deal to you know if you're buying one or two books a month hopefully you're going to be in Wi-Fi in your house or something so I don't think that's a really big deal and worth spending the extra money that said though guys the Nook is definitely a you know a pretty decent step up from the kle as far as features whe whether I'm not saying it's better exam exactly but it does have a 3.5 in color touchcreen on the bottom um so I used the Nook and they are pretty cool um the problem is though is that it does run Android and usually I really like Android it's a fantastic platform but for an e-reader it's just not that great um so the main problem with Android running on the Nook is that it's pretty slow um so of course an eink display if you've never seen one before um they look really really solid but the main problem is that you know the refresh time takes a while so you know you click on the next page you know to flip a page amount a book for example and it does take a couple seconds to go ahead and flip and that that's kind of a problem um but of course it's an in in display you know you kind of learned to expect that what you don't expect though is on the LCD screen it doesn't really is not really any better it takes a while to scroll or anything like that um so while I like the Nook and I do think it's really cool that go ahead and have you know a screen as well as you know you can go ahead and look at one screen and look at the other kind of gives you you know a really kind of cool thing I don't think the Nook is really that great I think that for the price it's probably not too bad but if you're really sticking for just a standard e-reader I'd probably stick with the Kindle now guys let's go ahead and take a look at the Wild Card which of course is the Apple iPad so the iPad is much more expensive than these uh starting at $500 and going all the way up to 830 with the 64 gigabytes with Wi-Fi and 3G I'm going to go ahead and just stick with the Wi-Fi model that's just kind of what I think you know is the closest match and if you can ignore the price difference the iPad is a really really big step up from just a standard e-reader so of course the iPad does come well you rather you can go ahead and download for free in the App Store with the iBook application um now iBook is of course going to be on the standard color touchcreen and that has advantages as well as as its disadvantages so with a full color screen you can obviously you know look at pictures um it's going to look really nice and you're not going to have any issues with frame rates or anything like that you know you just flip the page it's going to just go just as smooth as you can imagine the problem is however is in battery life whereas the Nook and the Kindle you know you're they're rated for how many days or weeks the last not a charge the iPad is only going to be about a few hours um so even at 10 hours that's pretty good you know considering a laptop but against an e-reader that's a pretty big knock as far as you know the Kindle you can just leave on you charge it you know like every week every two weeks or something like that um that said though guys the iPad does a lot more than just book reading so of course you can get on the internet with Safari um you can go ahead check your email um really you can do so much with the iPad that being an reader is only just one of the very very many things it does um but of course you would expect that considering that it is much much more expensive so really guys I it's kind of hard to say what you should get or what you shouldn't personally if you're just wanting a standard e-reader you know you don't really worry about what all the the extra stuff that the iPad does maybe you have like an iPhone or some other smartphone that you can do that I'll probably go ahead and go with the Kindle it was really solid um the ne the latest version of it is slimed down is trimmed off a lot of the price and it works even better um now that said if you have a little bit more money and you're looking to for a device that will do more than just read books the iPad is probably going to be the way to go you can go ahead and of course read books but you can do so much more that it really does warrant the much more expensive price tag okay so in the second segment of D3 live I'll be taking live questions from everyone um I'm currently in Vlog TV we've got a lot of people in here so I'm go ahead and take some questions okay where do you get the Amazon Kindle from actually that's a good question um so until up until recently the only place you could get the Kindle was well from Amazon however they've recently go ahead and branched out so if you go to many Target stores you can go ahead and buy the Kindle there um that said though probably the best bet is to go ahead and get it from Amazon um a lot of times they'll have deals or special special incentives for you to get them there um sometimes they'll give you you know like a free case or something but go ahead it's not that bad of an idea to go ahead and take a look at Target just because you can actually go ahead and get a Hands-On of of an actual candle cuz as great as you know a lot of devices are if you actually can't you know actually feel them and test them out before you buy obviously might be a bit of an issue um what do you think do you really consider the iPad an ebook reader um I don't I consider the iPad to read ebooks along with dozens of other things it does um like I said I don't consider it to be a strict eBook reader and I doubt many people buy it just to be to be an ebook reader however it is something that does do and it is something that does do really well so I don't know it's kind of it's kind of you know one of that gray area but I do definitely expect that you know you can do eBooks on it and it does work pretty well so um uh is the iPad really an e-reader or an entertainment device um same pretty much same answer the iPad does so much it's really hard you really just can't say it does one thing or whatever I mean yeah of course you could say it's just for web browsing but guess what it does a million other things you can say it's just for apps but it's got a lot of other things than that so so it's really hard to just say the iPad does one thing and really I like the idea that the iPad fills a lot of different niches at one time I mean you know you could almost use it as like a netbook you can use it as an e-reader you can use it as you know like a portable DVD player obviously doesn't play DVDs but you can watch movies on it um you know you can use it as a giant iPod there's a lot of really cool things you can do with the iPad um would you personally read on a screen rather than a book actually that's a good question um I've you know I'm I'm a pretty big reader I like I have a whole bit a bunch of books and everything um I've never really had a whole lot of experience I've never actually owned an e-reader I've never really you know spent the time I mean I've read a couple of books on my iPod Touch just for the fun of it but to be honest I love the feel of a book I love actually being able to hold it put your bookmarks and everything um I do like the idea of e-readers I do like the fact that you know you can have hundreds of books and you know a really tiny device I mean there's no way you could actually do that in real life you know if you had the real paperback books um but that said though I think there there's you know there's you can you can do either um it's just kind of based on personal preference personally I mean if it's not a big deal if I'm just in my house whatever I'd love to go ahead and just buy the book and just you know read it around but then again if I'm going on a trip or for whatever reason I I don't have a lot of room for a lot of books you know buy a Kindle or an iPad or a Nook or whatever it is that's just fine um do you think an iPod Touch is a good device for reading books with eye books it's a good question um I have like I said I've actually read a couple of books um using the classics application you know this is a few months ago before for iOS 4 came out um using the classics application on the iPod Touch um actually it's not that bad um of course the iPod Touch has a pretty small screen and this goes the same for the iPhone it has a pretty small screen however it is usable um personally if you do really want to read a book um I I read for example 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea um and it was a you know a very long book and with the small pages on the iPod I believe it had over a th000 Pages um the iBooks is a really good application as well as Classics and many others and if you if it's just something you want to do I I didn't really have any troubles with it um you know especially in a dark room you can just turn the brightness down and it works pretty well um but if you're really going to be reading a lot of books I don't really recommend an iPod or an iPhone I mean it's more for occasional reading than you actually reading you know huge books all the day all all day and everything um which e-reader is considered the most durable and which one is there one with an unusually high return rate um I don't know about the return rate um as far as durability I would probably tend to think that Kindle and I don't have any you know this is just based off of what I think um the Nook is probably pretty good as well but I just think with two screens that's just more stuff to break and the iPad while it's you know it's a great looking piece and I'm sure if you put it in a case we it would be pretty well protected um we've all seen a lot of drop tests where it doesn't take much you know iPod an iPad to drop off you know a three foot table land and you know the screen might break so I would just kind of just based on my personal opinion I would tend to think the Kindle but as long as you're being careful as long as you're you're not you know dropping it or you know as long as you keep it in a case whatever I think pretty much any e-reader or whatever should be okay um I heard it was the Barnes Noble Nook um yeah again it's kind of hard to say because I honestly don't know for sure about you know I've never I haven't really researched it but just based off of you know what I've seen and what I've you know I've had handson and stuff the Kindle does seem to be pretty solid um is there a beta for Safari 6 um no there's not Safari 5 actually just came out about a month ago or so um so it probably will be at least another year or so until Safari 6 probably when the next version of os 10 comes out um netbooks or books or ebooks uh which one would you get if price wasn't an issue uh if price wasn't an issue I would probably well I'd probably give them all but no if I just have to pick one I'd probably pick the iPad um now the iPad is quite a bit bigger than the Kindle and the Nook but like I said like I've said before there are so many things the iPad can do um it's it's really solid thing and I really think that you know a lot of people would be happy with an iPad I mean like I said the battery life isn't anywhere near as good and some people don't like reading the back lit screen somebody some people just like you know to read a normal Kindle screen um but I think the iPad if you you know if money wasn't an option if they you know somebody was going to give you one for free I think probably go with the iPad um the iPhone design is there going to be an iPhone redesign later this year uh probably not generally the iPhone's just you know redesigned once a year and while the iPhone 4 we've heard a lot of the reception issues I don't think Apple's going to you know redesign the antenna or anything like that I think that they're going to give away free cases like they are doing right now and that's pretty much going to be it anyway guys I'd like to thank you for watching this episode of D3 live anyway guys thanks for watchinghey guys and welcome to this episode of D3 live so this week we will be talking e-readers more specifically the Amazon Kendall third generation the Barnes & Noble Nook as well as the Apple iPad so of course Amazon just released their new Kindle so I'm going to go ahead and start with it now obviously the Kindle is really the one that started out e-readers and it is consistently stayed one of the best if not the best around um with the new one it is a bit thinner uh it is also quite a bit cheaper at only $139 um that's pretty impressive as you know just a couple years ago when the candle came out it was over $400 so that's pretty cool um so basically right now if you want to go ahead and get a Kindle you can pre-order them and they will be uh released in a few weeks here um you'll basically for $139 you will get the standard Kindle which has a 6in eink display uh it will be $139 and you will get Wi-Fi um now if you want to go ahead and bump it up you can go ahead and get it with AT&T 3G um that's not a bad option and of course the 3G is free so you can go ahead and download books from anywhere um personally though I mean it unless you're really you know out and about traveling everything I think I would probably recommend just sticking with the $139 version um you know it's quite a bit cheaper and to be honest yeah like I said guys I mean when you're getting into you know $140 that is almost just like you know you just walk by and go hey I just buy that it's not it's not a big deal it's not something you know you really have to you know get worried about or whatever like maybe the iPad is so guys I think the Kindle is going to remain a really solid choice and for the price it's going to be really solid now of course let's go ahead and move on to the Barnes & Noble milk so there are also two versions of this one is $150 with Wi-Fi and then one is $200 with Wi-Fi as well as 3G um again I'm not a huge fan of 3G and e-readers um I do like the idea of you know of course it's free so you know you're not going to have to pay a lot for for to use the 3G service but then again I don't know I mean Wi-Fi should be good enough to load pretty much anything I mean unless you like to you know I just can't see you know really using an e-reader out in the middle of nowhere to download books I mean it's not a big deal to you know if you're buying one or two books a month hopefully you're going to be in Wi-Fi in your house or something so I don't think that's a really big deal and worth spending the extra money that said though guys the Nook is definitely a you know a pretty decent step up from the kle as far as features whe whether I'm not saying it's better exam exactly but it does have a 3.5 in color touchcreen on the bottom um so I used the Nook and they are pretty cool um the problem is though is that it does run Android and usually I really like Android it's a fantastic platform but for an e-reader it's just not that great um so the main problem with Android running on the Nook is that it's pretty slow um so of course an eink display if you've never seen one before um they look really really solid but the main problem is that you know the refresh time takes a while so you know you click on the next page you know to flip a page amount a book for example and it does take a couple seconds to go ahead and flip and that that's kind of a problem um but of course it's an in in display you know you kind of learned to expect that what you don't expect though is on the LCD screen it doesn't really is not really any better it takes a while to scroll or anything like that um so while I like the Nook and I do think it's really cool that go ahead and have you know a screen as well as you know you can go ahead and look at one screen and look at the other kind of gives you you know a really kind of cool thing I don't think the Nook is really that great I think that for the price it's probably not too bad but if you're really sticking for just a standard e-reader I'd probably stick with the Kindle now guys let's go ahead and take a look at the Wild Card which of course is the Apple iPad so the iPad is much more expensive than these uh starting at $500 and going all the way up to 830 with the 64 gigabytes with Wi-Fi and 3G I'm going to go ahead and just stick with the Wi-Fi model that's just kind of what I think you know is the closest match and if you can ignore the price difference the iPad is a really really big step up from just a standard e-reader so of course the iPad does come well you rather you can go ahead and download for free in the App Store with the iBook application um now iBook is of course going to be on the standard color touchcreen and that has advantages as well as as its disadvantages so with a full color screen you can obviously you know look at pictures um it's going to look really nice and you're not going to have any issues with frame rates or anything like that you know you just flip the page it's going to just go just as smooth as you can imagine the problem is however is in battery life whereas the Nook and the Kindle you know you're they're rated for how many days or weeks the last not a charge the iPad is only going to be about a few hours um so even at 10 hours that's pretty good you know considering a laptop but against an e-reader that's a pretty big knock as far as you know the Kindle you can just leave on you charge it you know like every week every two weeks or something like that um that said though guys the iPad does a lot more than just book reading so of course you can get on the internet with Safari um you can go ahead check your email um really you can do so much with the iPad that being an reader is only just one of the very very many things it does um but of course you would expect that considering that it is much much more expensive so really guys I it's kind of hard to say what you should get or what you shouldn't personally if you're just wanting a standard e-reader you know you don't really worry about what all the the extra stuff that the iPad does maybe you have like an iPhone or some other smartphone that you can do that I'll probably go ahead and go with the Kindle it was really solid um the ne the latest version of it is slimed down is trimmed off a lot of the price and it works even better um now that said if you have a little bit more money and you're looking to for a device that will do more than just read books the iPad is probably going to be the way to go you can go ahead and of course read books but you can do so much more that it really does warrant the much more expensive price tag okay so in the second segment of D3 live I'll be taking live questions from everyone um I'm currently in Vlog TV we've got a lot of people in here so I'm go ahead and take some questions okay where do you get the Amazon Kindle from actually that's a good question um so until up until recently the only place you could get the Kindle was well from Amazon however they've recently go ahead and branched out so if you go to many Target stores you can go ahead and buy the Kindle there um that said though probably the best bet is to go ahead and get it from Amazon um a lot of times they'll have deals or special special incentives for you to get them there um sometimes they'll give you you know like a free case or something but go ahead it's not that bad of an idea to go ahead and take a look at Target just because you can actually go ahead and get a Hands-On of of an actual candle cuz as great as you know a lot of devices are if you actually can't you know actually feel them and test them out before you buy obviously might be a bit of an issue um what do you think do you really consider the iPad an ebook reader um I don't I consider the iPad to read ebooks along with dozens of other things it does um like I said I don't consider it to be a strict eBook reader and I doubt many people buy it just to be to be an ebook reader however it is something that does do and it is something that does do really well so I don't know it's kind of it's kind of you know one of that gray area but I do definitely expect that you know you can do eBooks on it and it does work pretty well so um uh is the iPad really an e-reader or an entertainment device um same pretty much same answer the iPad does so much it's really hard you really just can't say it does one thing or whatever I mean yeah of course you could say it's just for web browsing but guess what it does a million other things you can say it's just for apps but it's got a lot of other things than that so so it's really hard to just say the iPad does one thing and really I like the idea that the iPad fills a lot of different niches at one time I mean you know you could almost use it as like a netbook you can use it as an e-reader you can use it as you know like a portable DVD player obviously doesn't play DVDs but you can watch movies on it um you know you can use it as a giant iPod there's a lot of really cool things you can do with the iPad um would you personally read on a screen rather than a book actually that's a good question um I've you know I'm I'm a pretty big reader I like I have a whole bit a bunch of books and everything um I've never really had a whole lot of experience I've never actually owned an e-reader I've never really you know spent the time I mean I've read a couple of books on my iPod Touch just for the fun of it but to be honest I love the feel of a book I love actually being able to hold it put your bookmarks and everything um I do like the idea of e-readers I do like the fact that you know you can have hundreds of books and you know a really tiny device I mean there's no way you could actually do that in real life you know if you had the real paperback books um but that said though I think there there's you know there's you can you can do either um it's just kind of based on personal preference personally I mean if it's not a big deal if I'm just in my house whatever I'd love to go ahead and just buy the book and just you know read it around but then again if I'm going on a trip or for whatever reason I I don't have a lot of room for a lot of books you know buy a Kindle or an iPad or a Nook or whatever it is that's just fine um do you think an iPod Touch is a good device for reading books with eye books it's a good question um I have like I said I've actually read a couple of books um using the classics application you know this is a few months ago before for iOS 4 came out um using the classics application on the iPod Touch um actually it's not that bad um of course the iPod Touch has a pretty small screen and this goes the same for the iPhone it has a pretty small screen however it is usable um personally if you do really want to read a book um I I read for example 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea um and it was a you know a very long book and with the small pages on the iPod I believe it had over a th000 Pages um the iBooks is a really good application as well as Classics and many others and if you if it's just something you want to do I I didn't really have any troubles with it um you know especially in a dark room you can just turn the brightness down and it works pretty well um but if you're really going to be reading a lot of books I don't really recommend an iPod or an iPhone I mean it's more for occasional reading than you actually reading you know huge books all the day all all day and everything um which e-reader is considered the most durable and which one is there one with an unusually high return rate um I don't know about the return rate um as far as durability I would probably tend to think that Kindle and I don't have any you know this is just based off of what I think um the Nook is probably pretty good as well but I just think with two screens that's just more stuff to break and the iPad while it's you know it's a great looking piece and I'm sure if you put it in a case we it would be pretty well protected um we've all seen a lot of drop tests where it doesn't take much you know iPod an iPad to drop off you know a three foot table land and you know the screen might break so I would just kind of just based on my personal opinion I would tend to think the Kindle but as long as you're being careful as long as you're you're not you know dropping it or you know as long as you keep it in a case whatever I think pretty much any e-reader or whatever should be okay um I heard it was the Barnes Noble Nook um yeah again it's kind of hard to say because I honestly don't know for sure about you know I've never I haven't really researched it but just based off of you know what I've seen and what I've you know I've had handson and stuff the Kindle does seem to be pretty solid um is there a beta for Safari 6 um no there's not Safari 5 actually just came out about a month ago or so um so it probably will be at least another year or so until Safari 6 probably when the next version of os 10 comes out um netbooks or books or ebooks uh which one would you get if price wasn't an issue uh if price wasn't an issue I would probably well I'd probably give them all but no if I just have to pick one I'd probably pick the iPad um now the iPad is quite a bit bigger than the Kindle and the Nook but like I said like I've said before there are so many things the iPad can do um it's it's really solid thing and I really think that you know a lot of people would be happy with an iPad I mean like I said the battery life isn't anywhere near as good and some people don't like reading the back lit screen somebody some people just like you know to read a normal Kindle screen um but I think the iPad if you you know if money wasn't an option if they you know somebody was going to give you one for free I think probably go with the iPad um the iPhone design is there going to be an iPhone redesign later this year uh probably not generally the iPhone's just you know redesigned once a year and while the iPhone 4 we've heard a lot of the reception issues I don't think Apple's going to you know redesign the antenna or anything like that I think that they're going to give away free cases like they are doing right now and that's pretty much going to be it anyway guys I'd like to thank you for watching this episode of D3 live anyway guys thanks for watching