05-27-2011, 10:14 AM | #16 |
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You maybe get one online, but you need a USA address in order to register. Also, unless you side load or buy from other stores, you won't be able to download books online from B&N directly. It will detect your IP address and not allowing you to buy or download, not unless you use a proxy. And you are not locked into Amazon store. That's misleading and an old argument that non Kindle users keep repeating. There are a lot of stores online which sells on mobi format and Kindle reads mobi format with zero issues. Most popular titles are widely available on both formats. I actually buy some computer books from O'Reilly, which sells computer books without DRM and mobi format. |
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To each his own. My big oily fingers are better suited to the Kindle. I can see how small dry fingers could prefer a touch screen. |
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Amazon will most likely use a touch screen for it's next generation eReader. So it will be interesting how all those that love the buttons over the touch screen become converts (or not). |
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A combination of the two works best. The BeBook Neo, for example, has a Wacom touch screen, but pretty much all aspects of the UI can also be accessed via buttons.
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Yes, options are great when possible. I agree that amazon will likely add a touch screen, but I'm curious to see whether they will also keep some sort of 5 way or other option.
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Amazon has purposely left out support for the ePub format. That has locked most people into using their eco-system eBook store even though they can buy books in the mobi format elsewhere. |
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It would be nice to have both touch and a multi-directional keypad. But Amazon and other eBook makers will probably abandon such things, at least for now, in order to keep costs low and the form factor as small as possible. More so since there's a lot of focus on producing eReaders below the $99 mark.
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What has locked users is not a format but DRM, which is also implemented by B&N and Apple, among others. Conversion for DRM free books is a breeze via Calibre! Last edited by jocampo; 05-27-2011 at 04:58 PM. |
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Something I think is still missing on the new Nook? ... landscape mode! A must for poetry and programming book. Just because that, I would never buy a Kindle again if for some reasons that feature is missing or removed on future releases. |
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As a fellow Canadian I would suggest the new touch Kobo. I really like their "inteface" and how you can view the book covers.
They are Canadian, so you don't have to worry about the extra shipping and duty. They also offer better book prices, and they frequently offer discount codes. Edited to add: They DO charge all Canadian taxes for Canadian purchases, which DOES cause some books to be higher priced than Amazon, but they do offer lots of coupon codes. If the new kobo had been out when I purchased my kindle, I would have chosen the touch kobo.(at the time they just had the plain kobo with no perl screen or wifi, those were my only requirements). The only difference I can think of is that Kobo may not have as many self-published books as amazon, and amazon seems to be developing their electronic offerings (like music, movies, apps etc...) if that's something you may want to take advantage of, you will have to decide if it's important to you that you keep everything together in one place. Last edited by RoxyJ; 05-28-2011 at 05:47 PM. |
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