[jagasail]

What you have to do, though, is turn off the 'auto' brightness setting and manually crank it up. Prior to that I found my iPad not particularly readable in sunlight, but afterwards it was acceptable, but wouldn't want to read a book that way. Also found (probably known by techies) that the screen is polarized, i.e. with my polarized sunglasses on it was quite bright when turned 'landscape' but almost black when turned 'portrait'. Oh, reading a book in the open shade of the sail or dodger was quite comfortable, just not direct sun.

Scot