Poor Apple. Just a few weeks after disgruntled iPhone 4 users sued the technology company, the iPad is now getting its share of legal woes.

Three iPad users are suing Apple with claims of false advertising for its iPad device. They are contesting the iPad’s claim that “reading on the iPad is just like reading a book”, citing that their iPads shut down after being left in the sun for too long.

The group—Jacob Baltazar, Claudia Keller and John R Browning—has filed a federal class-action lawsuit in California to “redress and end this pattern of unlawful conduct”, reports CNN.

The iPad will force itself to shut down after its operating temperature reaches a critical level, something that iPhones and iPod Touches do as well. Apple has listed the safe operating temperature for the iPad to be between 32º to 95ºF (0º to 35ºC).

So the iPad can’t really be read like a book, the lawsuit alleges. “Books do not close when the reader is enjoying them in the sunlight”, it pointed out.

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