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IBook is the native iPad ebook reader. The iBookstore has 200,000 titles including 33,000 public domain books. iBook has 11 text sizes and a brightness adjustment. PDF's can be imported into the iBooks shelf to be read like a book.

Amazon's Kindle is a free e-reader app in the Apple apps store. ebooks have to be bought through the Amazon Kindle Bookstore. Amazon offers 850,000 titles. Kindle books can be highlighted, bookmarked, and annotated. There are three viewing optioins: black text on white, dark brown text on sepia, and white text on black.

There are several other readers to explore as well: Nook, Nook for Kids, Kobo, and Google Books are a few. If you use Pearson textbooks, you may find access to them on Pearson's EReader.

GoodReader is a free pdf reader that lets you annotate and save pdf documents.

Flipboard is a free feed reader that gathers posts, comments, and articles from multiple sources and displays in an visually appealing magazine format.

Instapaper ($5) is a must have app because it lets you save online articles and RSS feeds for later reading. As you browse the web you will find websites that you want to save for later reading or research. A one button Instapaper click will save webpage on their server. Once saved you can read it on any web enabled device, including iPad. media type="youtube" key="-LmwFeI_yt8" height="349" width="425"

UPAD ($4.99) turns the iPad into a creative working space. You don't have to give up the trusty yellow legal notepad with the UPad app. Use your finger or a writing stylus to take notes, make drawings, doodle, underline and annotate PDF documents, draw on photos. Export as PDF or PNG, save notes or project through the VGA adapter. media type="youtube" key="MPuwRPKrK0o" height="349" width="560"