[jmcarter]

Jim, for shopping I have Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist (in that order) and they are all great apps. Flipboard is an app that compiles all of the reading that you've indicated you want to see into a single easy to use library, primarily the electronic news and social venues you've pegged. If you use Bank of America they have a great app for keeping up with banking while you're on the move and DirectTV has a good app for you to watch streaming TV on your iPad. There are many many others...you might even turn on "Genuis" in iTunes and and it will suggest others based on what you currently have.