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Inner · 11-29-2009, 11:21 PM

Hello guys,
I bet this question is kind of over abused but oh well, I hope you bear with me.
First of all, I never have owned a ebook reader and I got into the ebook craze from all the media coverage nook gotten. I did preorder a nook, but as of this week after comparing spec to spec it looks like a refurb kindle 2 is much better buy. I actually got my hands on the kindle 2 that my friend owns, I was very impressed. The things that made me change my mind is,

kindle 2 is really thin
browser. slow but being able to access wiki or google anywhere with me is amazing.
long battery life
text2speech. I was quite impressed by it, I thought it was alot worse.

Here is the question. Just get the cheaper refurb kindle 2 or wait for the upcoming kindle 3? I'm guessing its going to come out around march 2010? Since my winter break from college is coming up real soon, I would love to get the kindle 2 and enjoy it. The only factor I'm afraid of is that the kindle 3 might get released in a couple months with a similar price to nook in order to compete and I would get .. well screwed.

11-29-2009, 11:21 PM	#1
Inner Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle 2	Buy kindle 2 now, or wait for kindle 3 Hello guys, I bet this question is kind of over abused but oh well, I hope you bear with me. First of all, I never have owned a ebook reader and I got into the ebook craze from all the media coverage nook gotten. I did preorder a nook, but as of this week after comparing spec to spec it looks like a refurb kindle 2 is much better buy. I actually got my hands on the kindle 2 that my friend owns, I was very impressed. The things that made me change my mind is, kindle 2 is really thin browser. slow but being able to access wiki or google anywhere with me is amazing. long battery life text2speech. I was quite impressed by it, I thought it was alot worse. Here is the question. Just get the cheaper refurb kindle 2 or wait for the upcoming kindle 3? I'm guessing its going to come out around march 2010? Since my winter break from college is coming up real soon, I would love to get the kindle 2 and enjoy it. The only factor I'm afraid of is that the kindle 3 might get released in a couple months with a similar price to nook in order to compete and I would get .. well screwed.