It's a wonderful tool
Download the 154 page iPad users guide and put it in iBooks for future reference. Take a look at one of the numerous iPad apps guides to review some of the thousands of applications available for your edification. purchase and read your magazines online through the Zinio app, watch streaming movies and TV shows on the fly, read your newspapers, read thousands of free classic books from the Gutenberg Project, and on and on and on.
Have fun.