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ProfCrash · 07-30-2010, 03:04 PM

Yes the Nook has driven Amazon to make improvements and lower its price. Competition is a wonderful thing. In the long run, I end up with a less expensive e-reader that does more. That is great. How is this a bad thing? The Nook came into existence because of the success of the Kindle, which came into existence because of the success of Sony, and so on back in time. So should I not buy a Nook because it's existence was driven by the Kindle?

I think it is a matter of preference. I don't think the bar on the Nook is modern, I think it is silly and drains the battery. I could careless about seeing the cover art, I bought an ebook to read, not so I could display my books. I am going to read the book, not stare at the cover so a thumbnail, color cover is really not something I care about.

I could careless about having a touch screen on my ereader. The page turn buttons are easy to use, take no pressure, and do their job. I don't like finger prints on my cell phone, finger prints on my e-reader would drive me nuts.

There are a large number of book stores that sell Mobi books for me to put on a Kindle. I have yet to find a book that I want to read that was not available for my Kindle. Cnverting non-DRMed Epub to mobi is easy enough to do. So the lack of EPub is not that big of a deal.

Lending books? So I can lend a book once if the publishers let me for 14 days. I can lend books on my Kindle by registering a friends device to my account. As it is, I share my account with family members so we all have access to each others books.

I have not used the library for pleasure reading in a long, long time. I don't feel like I am missing much there.

I didn't need the expandable memory on my K1, I never kept that many books on my K1. I deleted books after I read them and reloaded them from Amazon if I wanted to read them again. Collections on my DXG allows me to keep all of my books on my DXG. They are sorted in a way that makes sense to me. That is awesome.

It appears to me that there are many folks with multiple e-readers. The K3 could very well be priced low enough that Nook owners end up with both. Who knows, if the new Nook comes out and is priced low enough and I decide that I want library books I might pick one up for that reason.

07-30-2010, 03:04 PM	#11
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Yes the Nook has driven Amazon to make improvements and lower its price. Competition is a wonderful thing. In the long run, I end up with a less expensive e-reader that does more. That is great. How is this a bad thing? The Nook came into existence because of the success of the Kindle, which came into existence because of the success of Sony, and so on back in time. So should I not buy a Nook because it's existence was driven by the Kindle? I think it is a matter of preference. I don't think the bar on the Nook is modern, I think it is silly and drains the battery. I could careless about seeing the cover art, I bought an ebook to read, not so I could display my books. I am going to read the book, not stare at the cover so a thumbnail, color cover is really not something I care about. I could careless about having a touch screen on my ereader. The page turn buttons are easy to use, take no pressure, and do their job. I don't like finger prints on my cell phone, finger prints on my e-reader would drive me nuts. There are a large number of book stores that sell Mobi books for me to put on a Kindle. I have yet to find a book that I want to read that was not available for my Kindle. Cnverting non-DRMed Epub to mobi is easy enough to do. So the lack of EPub is not that big of a deal. Lending books? So I can lend a book once if the publishers let me for 14 days. I can lend books on my Kindle by registering a friends device to my account. As it is, I share my account with family members so we all have access to each others books. I have not used the library for pleasure reading in a long, long time. I don't feel like I am missing much there. I didn't need the expandable memory on my K1, I never kept that many books on my K1. I deleted books after I read them and reloaded them from Amazon if I wanted to read them again. Collections on my DXG allows me to keep all of my books on my DXG. They are sorted in a way that makes sense to me. That is awesome. It appears to me that there are many folks with multiple e-readers. The K3 could very well be priced low enough that Nook owners end up with both. Who knows, if the new Nook comes out and is priced low enough and I decide that I want library books I might pick one up for that reason.