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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
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.
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First off I would like to point out that I agree 100% competiton is great for us no matter which side of the fence you fall on the kindle side or the nook side.
second off even though it may seem like I was, I wasn't knocking the Kindle I just don't understand all the oooohing and awweeeing is about, Let's be honest this is Kindle's third Genereation and it hasn't really brought anything new to the table.
the touch screen is silly and not modern?
and navigating with a directional touch pad or stubby joystick is?
So the iPhone and Droid that use color touchscreen is not modern.
as far as LendMe goes, first off it's the Publisher's who are making the restrictions, not BN and even if the lending time is only a day it's still a day longer than what Amazon offers which is Zero. So 14 days vs 0. the nook is still way ahead of Amazon in that dept.
Sure you can share with people on your account, but in reality how many people do you want access to your account? I love my friends but they aren't coming onto my account. and how many different people WOULD you WANT on your account, outside of family members? Even having family members on your account could create issues with different buying and spending habits.
Mobi doesn't even come remotely close to the number of e book sellers than e-pub, I'm not even going to go beyond that argument.
Again the Kindle cleaned up it's design that's it. It's not reshaping e-book reading so I think we all need to come down from the clouds. There is nothing new to the ball game.