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Originally Posted by Scarpad
Am I crazy? I just bought a Nook,. which I like, and I just Preordered a Wifi Graphite Kindle. I figured I'll find the one I like best and sell the other. My only Complaint on the Nook is that I just can't find a comfortable way to hold it. It's a Tad Heavy too. The Kindle looks Lighter and a bit easier to hold. I guess we'll see.
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A friend of mine is about to buy the nook. He won't consider a Kindle because of the 1984 thing, even though they promise not to do it again, they still have the technology to do so.
For me, that is one reason not to buy any ebook reader that is hooked up to the company.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you see an eBook available for sale for say $12.99 or $14.99 and then look at your libraries collection of eBooks and see the ePub version available to read for free, the person with the Kindle will wish he/she had a device that handled library eBooks. This is one area that Amazon is going to lose out on and lose out big time.
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Right now, it is not terribly significant. But as libraries go digital more and more, it will be.
Amazon will have won the war when Overdrive offers primarily Kindle/Mobi editions. So far, this is not the case. In fact, it is becoming harder and harder to find mobi editions at the NY Public Library.
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Originally Posted by slayda
The Amazon advertizing page has the following blurb;
{Emphasis is mine.}
How many "at home" networks are not peer-to-peer/ad hoc type networks? I would be very disappointed if I got the wi-fi only version and could not connect through my home network.
I would like a review from someone who gets the wi-fi only K3 & has an 802.11 home network.
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Your home network is likely not ad-hoc.
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Originally Posted by kjk
When I travel, I can connect my Macbook to a 3G modem or hotel ethernet, and create an wireless adhoc network for other devices to access.
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I carry a small router which I hook into the wired ethernet (where possible) and then use that to reach my laptops (three in the family) via wireless.
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Originally Posted by Graham
ePub files conform to a common standard, but companies vary the Digital Rights Management layer that they wrap around them.
We were getting to a reasonably clear situation where everyone using ePub who wanted to add DRM was applying Adobe's ADEPT version, but over the last year it's got more confused with B&N and Apple applying their own variants to lock people into their own stores. |
BN does not lock you into their store, at least once other machines update their ADE. Indeed, it frees you from their store, because you don't need to login anywhere to 'activate' the book. The DRM is entirely self-contained, based on storing a hash function derived from the credit card registered with BN.
I like it significantly better than Adept because I am not limited to a set number of registered machines with it (of course, DRM removal is always an option for either, but I am talking about working with the DRM protocol...) Any reader where I have entered the credit card once will retain the hash function (not the credit card) and I can read any other BN ebook on it that was bought with the same card.