My first sight of an iPad was on Tuesday, 6 July, 2010. I was on the Northern Line going to Bank and I sat beside a guy who was using an iPad to read a graphic novel. Seemed perfectly serviceable for that, but I noticed that he had to be sitting down to use it. I suppose the design improvements for future up grades will be to make it lighter, more rugged, and with a higher resolution screen. It could, with cameras added, as in the new iPhone work as a video conference unit. I was interested to see that Amazon have released an iPhone/ iPad app which allows you to use the iPad as a kindle. Clearly Amazon are mainly interested in selling eBooks so dont care whether you use their reader or not.