So I bought an Air...thanks to everyone's great advice!

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7. One thing you could try

is to back up your iPad, then do a complete wipe & restore it from the backup. I did this a while back and got some of the storage space back that was in the mysterious grey "other" category. Of course, as time goes on, that grey block is getting bigger again. I think it's stuff like local cache of web data.

Unfortunately, that wipe & restore didn't do anything to speed my iPad up (which I didn't expect), but I was trying to get some storage space back. It is possible that doing that wipe & restore might help your iPad correct some sort of software problem, it's worth a try. Just be sure to import any pictures or videos you've taken with it that you haven't transferred to your computer yet.