06-17-2011, 11:01 AM | #1 |
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Consumer Reports: Nook Beats The Kindle
According to an article at Business Insider, the new Nook beats the most recent Kindle.
Personally, I think Consumer Reports is off the mark. After watching all the trouble brick and mortar stores are having I'll stick with Amazon. Plus, Amazon has been a leader in innovating with the Kindle and they are rumored to have some really nice products in the pipeline. Since you are kind of locked in when you buy an eReader I'd be leary about locking into the Nook (although it does run the Amazon reader app so maybe that's not a huge deal). Amazon's customer service is also very good. One more thing, Amazon's Kindle Store recently passed the one million books mark. |
06-17-2011, 11:34 AM | #2 |
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kindle leader in innovating?
just curious how's that? They most certainly weren't the first ebook reader nor the first to have eInk. Sony and BN have been way more innovating than the Kindle> Now they without a doubt had the best marketing campaign but otherwise, they've actually been playing catch up in alot of areas from design, to Lending to friends, to pricing (remember it was Amazon who reacted to BN when they dropped the price of the nook); color, library lending, ePub etc. and let's face it there next eink will be all touch, again playing catch up. They sat on their lead and it shows. and why would you be leary of being "locked" in with BN for one it accepts ePub (something the kindle does not) so you can shop anywhere and besides BN's selection is pretty much on par with Amazon and price wise as well. The current Kindle looks very very outdated hardware wise. Last edited by boswd; 06-17-2011 at 11:37 AM. |
06-17-2011, 11:39 AM | #3 |
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Do you think so? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the Kindle 3 was the first device on the market to use the new "Pearl" eInk screen. Isn't the screen the most important part of a reader's hardware?
There seems to be a view that touch screens are automatically better than buttons. Personally I disagree with this view; I don't want to read on a screen that's smudged with fingerprints, and I find touch screens inaccurate for dictionary lookup and text selection. I have readers with touch screens, eg the Sony PRS-350, iPhone, and iPad, but the reader I find myself using more than anything is the "outdated" Kindle. |
06-17-2011, 11:42 AM | #4 |
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It looks like CR didn't rank the Nook STR that much better than the Kindle, and the author seems to admit that the difference will certainly be temporary. One thing not addressed at all in the comparison CR did was touch vs. buttons. There are some people (myself included, I think) who will never see a touch interface as being better than a button-based interface.
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06-17-2011, 11:47 AM | #5 |
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And it locked every other ereader manufacturer beside Amazon and Sony from using Pearl for 6 months. If the other features of the kindle were that much better, they wouldn't have feared the competition.
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Getting a 6-month jump on the competition was a smart business move. I don't think you can say that "fear" was the motivating factor.
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Pearl Screen is a little better contrast ratio nothing more nothing less. Now whether or not someone prefers buttons to touch or touch to buttons is always going to be subjectable to each individual. But on just pure technology wise, not factoring in your personal preferance. touch screen is more technically advanced than buttons. IOW's my Father will prefer his clam shell $30 cell phone to any smart phone. But his onld nokia isn't more advanced than my Droid X. that's what I mean. Also these types of screens don't pick up smudges etc. |
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Amazon will probably go touch on the next Kindle due to this perception, I just hope they keep some buttons (at least everything but the keyboard). |
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What I see here on this forum is more mixing up personal preferance to what is the prevailing technology. |
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A 50% contrast improvement is most definitely a "technology advancement", and the difference between the 2nd gen Vizplex and 3rd gen Pearl screens is dramatic, to my eyes. Again, this is perhaps a matter of personal perception, but to me this was a HUGE technology advance in terms of ease of reading, and ease of reading is perhaps the single most important consideration in a reader.
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Or stop reading while eating greasy foods. j/k |
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Giving me a better contrast ratio is nothing to pop open a bottle of the bubbly over. at least IMHO. |
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Don't get me wrong - I can see the way that wind's blowing, and it's inevitable that the next-generation Kindle will use a touch-screen, but for me it won't be an improvement when it does so. |
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again this will all be moot converstation come this summer or fall when and if the kindle introduces a full touch.
The question is and I'll admit I'm going to be very curious to the reacton of the kindle owners here. The ones who are saying this and that about touch and how the kindle's current form is the best etc etc. will they all keep singing the same song or will the kindle touch become just awesome and "how did I ever think buttons were better"? Some how I think all of a sudden a touch kindle will just become "magical". |
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