@MSFTWorshipper
You obviously are not a reader. The iPad is not an E-reader. Please read for twenty minutes on eInk and then on your computer monitor/iPad and then kindly remove your foot from your mouth.
The point of eInk is simple and two-fold: reduce eye strain and conserve battery life. eInk is not constantly refreshed (so no you cant watch a movie on it) and it draws no power to maintain the characters on the screen (so yes you can read War and Peace on one battery charge). It does not require backlighting and therefore does not cause eye strain. It is intended to read just as a book does and studies have shown it excels at this. So eReaders are quite useful, the iPad however, is not. The sales of the iPad reflect most on two things: 1) the ingenius marketing strategy of Steve Jobs and 2) the abounding stupidity of his customers.
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