And I thought, well, there you have it. Like a lot the these things like reading The New York Times in bed. I hate sitting there with my laptop. I don't know if it's just the laptop is hot, it's heavy, and makes me think that I ought to be working.

I'm always afraid I'm going to break it if it's in bed and the hinge gets caught in the blanket or something. So I snuggle into bed with it and I'm reading and I'm very happy. I'm waiting for a case. ...

The case I ordered, which looks great and it has a stand built in, that's for either horizontal or vertical, and you can charge it with the case on. I was about to order the Apple one and a friend who was here said, you have to take it off all the time to charge it, and I thought, eh, I'm going to wait. [Orlean later said that she had ordered the from quirky.]

... I can see why some people would scratch their head and say I don't understand how it makes sense. I have my laptop and I have my phone. I can understand that, too. I think it's like carrying around like a little window with you, and you can peak through that window into this huge gigantic world that is the Internet.

And while you can do that with your phone, it is so much more visual, and almost tactile and alive doing through the window, the iPad. And that's how I feel. I just feel like it's a window. Literally, it even looks like a window.