My Ipad, it feels cold because the metal and the glass are colder than the blazing room temperature here in TL.  My Ipad is black in color and has a silver colored back, it is a large rectangle around 11".  I do not think my Ipad has a scent to it.  But honestly does any type of technology.  If anything it smells like me, because it has been in my possession since the day i broke the seal on the apple box.  Also this being a source of technology people may look at me weird if i were to "taste" it.  My Ipad ties into my reading and writing in many ways.  One being the fact that i have the "nook: app. in which i read books on.  Though i must say i do not read very often.  It partakes in my writing because i do most of my blogs on my Ipad.  There are very few tings that you can not do on an Ipad.  There is almost an app for anything and everything you could want or even imagine.  Though my Ipad contributes to my reading and writing, it also contradicts my work.. Simply because it can be very distracting.