Thanks for the review jxh11215! If you haven't already, I think you should post this as a separate thread so people can find it easily.
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(Update: I forgot to mention two things on the nook that are a big plus. Their book navigation notes both a book ‘location’ and a PAGE NUMBER! This is uber-awesome for book clubs, students and workplace use. Even though I got a few silent blinks when I asked whether the page numbers were for the hard or paper-back versions, any reference to actual page numbers is nice. The second thing is that B&N sprang for an upgraded .PDF model than the Kindle. Per the B&N employee, the .PDF is text searchable. I’d like confirmation of that.)
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The 2.3 update has made PDFs on the Kindle text searchable as well as long as it is a non-scanned PDF.
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There are also options to change the font that are not available on the Kindle without a hack and users can add their own screensavers which again are not available on the Kindle.
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Love this!
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IMO, B&N did themselves a bit of disservice when they designed the navigation in terms of an eReader. You have to go through too many touches of the screen to get to a book, navigate thru books, get definitions and other things. Keep in mind that I am coming from a Kindle interface where I can open any one of the 10 books on my home page with one click, use my thumb to highlight as well as get any definitions. I imagine that traversing through the menus and options may not be as distracting when shopping as a user expects more interaction in that scenario. But up front, there are too many screens with too many options just to open one of the books in your list.
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This was a concern to me when I saw the Engadget video. The LCD screen navigation may be too complicated for Seniors to deal with. I think I'm a little savvy, and I found myself getting confused. Maybe, it's because I'm used to the Kindle and a newbie to ebook readers won't have the same issue.
I'll probably head over the my local B&N later today to tomorrow to check it out myself.