I have an iPad2 as a pdf reader for role-playing. It does some things brilliantly (battery life, actually viewing the pdf, zooming in etc) but it's bloody annoying in other ways. iPads for example don't have any sort of file manager. Neither do they have any sort of removeable media slot. So to get a pdf file (or several hundred pdf files) from PC to iPad, rather than just dragging-and-dropping to copy the folder across, or even copying them from SD card or USB stick, you have to use iTunes to associate the files / folders with a particular iPad application and then synchronise them between the two devices. iTunes is a perfectly serviceable program for playing music files, but it's no substitute for a proper file manager. I believe that you can get file manager apps for Android devices. (This whole setup serves to confirm my view that Apple does hardware really well, but software quite badly.)
Not sure how well Android does multi-tasking. With the iPad, it's not as bad as is popularly believed. Switching between applications is pretty quick (and when you switch back to your pdf viewer app, the last file you looked at will be open. Also, the pdf viewer (at least the one I use - GoodReader) uses a tab system rather like a modern web browser, with a document open on each tab. So it's easy to have several pdfs open at once and flick between them.
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Date: 2012-02-13 09:55 am (UTC)http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/asus-eee-pad-slider-sl101-1036296/review
I have an iPad2 as a pdf reader for role-playing. It does some things brilliantly (battery life, actually viewing the pdf, zooming in etc) but it's bloody annoying in other ways. iPads for example don't have any sort of file manager. Neither do they have any sort of removeable media slot. So to get a pdf file (or several hundred pdf files) from PC to iPad, rather than just dragging-and-dropping to copy the folder across, or even copying them from SD card or USB stick, you have to use iTunes to associate the files / folders with a particular iPad application and then synchronise them between the two devices. iTunes is a perfectly serviceable program for playing music files, but it's no substitute for a proper file manager. I believe that you can get file manager apps for Android devices. (This whole setup serves to confirm my view that Apple does hardware really well, but software quite badly.)
Not sure how well Android does multi-tasking. With the iPad, it's not as bad as is popularly believed. Switching between applications is pretty quick (and when you switch back to your pdf viewer app, the last file you looked at will be open. Also, the pdf viewer (at least the one I use - GoodReader) uses a tab system rather like a modern web browser, with a document open on each tab. So it's easy to have several pdfs open at once and flick between them.