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Originally Posted by boswd
ahh but you underestimate the lure of the of touchscreen Color lCD that allows you to navigate using icons and see the your book cover in color and scrolling using cover flow.
Especially being in a store like Best Buy where you have all of todays latest gadgets and tecchonology.
vs.
even the brand new Kindle that uses techonlogy from the 1980's for navigation and no color at all.
Now look at your surrondings while in Best Buy, everything is bascially touchcreen and color and modern.
Then the kindle is the one that looks like it using very old technology.
Trust me on this, Kindle uses extremely antiquated technology for navigating.
Even page turning on the Nook you can turn the page using the finger swiping method , on the Kindle your only choice to click the page turning button.
The Kindle may use the peral screen but when you can see it side by side against the Nook and notice it's not a huge contrast difference then add to the fact one navigagtes similar to your smart phone and the other one navigates similar to your old coleco hand held electronic game when yougrew up, then I don't think the decision is as easy as you might think.
Amazon runs a much better marketing campaign and actually runs cathcy and funny commericials but that doesn't make it the better ereader.
But this is all a moot point. Asking a Best Buy employee about e-readers would be like asking 5 year old about Quantum Physics.
They don't care.
But here's tip for any BN marketing employees reading this forum. "RUN SOME COMMERICALS" EGADS MAN.
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There's a lot of talk here about the Nook's touchscreen navigation, which is great for people who are looking for that kind of experience on an ereader. However, I think navigation on the Kindle's eink screen is a far better experience than navigating on the Nook's eink screen. Having tactile buttons makes it easier and the fact is that not everything can be done from the touchscreen. (As a side note, buttons are NOT antiquated. Antiquated specifically means outdated but that is simply not true. If it were, no device would have any buttons. Even years down the road I'm certain people will still be typing on physical keyboards because touchscreens come with their own limitations.) If the touchscreen were more functional, then it would be more of an allure (but I can definitely see glare being an issue for reading in direct sunlight, which I do a lot). When the Nook first came out, I thought for sure they would make dictionary definitions pop up instantly on the LCD. Nope. Dictionary support is still better implemented on the Kindle because the Nook waits to open the full definition on the eink screen each time. Add to that the fact that navigating the cursor on the eink screen is slower using the touchscreen than it is using the Kindle's physical buttons. Still, I don't know why people make this into a "which is better" debate. I always try to be fair to the Nook when people ask me why I chose the Kindle. I tell them that having a physical keyboard and other tactile buttons is important to me and that I think the Kindle software offers a smoother experience with things like dictionary support and search. I also mention that I'm clearly biased and that some people don't mind typing on a touchscreen and like the advantage of being able to browse covers in color as well as see webpages on the LCD (which unfortunately, as I understand it, only works on WiFi with the Nook). Just like other competing products, ereaders have their own mixed bags of advantages and disadvantages.