The iPad is okay for a little bit of text editing, but it is a pain if there is a lot involved. We’ve all become so dexterous on the computer with clicking and holding the left mouse button down and dragging it to highlight text. It is obviously going to be a different story without a mouse. A small box gets highlighted, and then you have to drag those little corners
to the desired location. It is great for movies, and the apps keep my grandchildren entertained.
I played with one in a store one time. Went to FR and tried to post something. I could put the focus on a box and type there, but if I made a mistake there was no apparent way to move the cursor so you could type in the middle of the string. A few arrow keys on the pop-up keyboard would have done the trick.