It is magical!

I’m a member of the Mac-Cult. I went with a MacBook Pro over a Dell last year to avoid Vista and have never looked back. When my phone plan was up I switched to the iPhone. I’ve considered getting an Apple tattooed on my person in a private but alluring area. Today is a great day, for the High Priest has shown us a sign, a sign so magical I want to lick it. Behold the iPad! ^[1]

I’ve been holding off on the Kindle 2 ^[2] or the Nook ^[3]to see what Mac can produce to fill the void. And I must say that I’m impressed– a serious attempt at a touch screen only portable device, that’s HOT. But I’m honestly not sure it’s what I wanted.

I was looking for something a step better than a Kindle 2 or Nook to fill the eBook need that’s growing in my life. Yes, I realize to most readers, book aficionados, and university English departments that’s blasphemy. But consider my position: I’m 27 and have filled five bookshelves. Not own, but filled them. I’m hopefully less than a quarter of the way through my life (crosses fingers and hopes for nanotechnology) and I’m out of space. This isn’t counting the titles I’ve scrapped (textbooks), given away (murder mysteries), or used to level out furniture (Dan Brown… I was curious and it was a mistake). While the aforementioned devices seemed like a reasonable answer, the buzz was to wait till April 2010 and see what Apple produces, if anything.

It’s cool. But starting at $499 (almost twice the cost of a Kindle 2 or Nook) plus an AT&T Internet service plan, it’s WAY TOO expensive to fill my more-than-a-phone-and-less-than-a-laptop void. I’m more than likely in the gray zone of most mid-recession Americans: If I had cash to burn that is what I would buy, but I don’t so I’ll wait and see how people react to it.