Heh, heh. I feel like I'm being drawn into the Nook vs K3 Holy Wars.
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Originally Posted by boswd
yeah the LCD screen is the reason the battery life is shorter on the Nook than the others. I for one think it's a tradeoff I'm willing to live with. For one charging my nook every 5 to 8 days just is not an inconvience. it just isn't. by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike you I adore the color touchscreen and navigating with it. I could not go from a Nook to a Kindle, no way, way to antiquated for naviagtion.
I totally agree that if you like the Nook's LCD then the Nook's battery life is a perfectly acceptable trade-off. Charging once a week isn't at all unreasonable.
yeah the K3 is faster but is it really advantageous. The nook's page turning speen after v1.2 was on par with the Kindle 2's page turning speed. The page turning speed was just fine. To me it was a solution to a problem that didn't exisit. It wasn't like the K2 and the Nook took 5 seconds for the page to turn. They both do it in under 2 seconds which is still alot faster than physically turning a page. So while the K3 page turning is faster, the difference is basically pointless since both the K2 and Nook's page turning is quite fast. I would like to see someone work on some page turning animation instead of the "negative flash".
I didn't find the Nook's page turning speed bad at all. However I think this is a case where faster is always better. I particularly notice the difference when I'm reading and want to quickly page ahead to find the next chapter to see how much longer I'll be reading. Maybe this is just a unique quirk of how I read?
Yes the Nook is heavier than the K3 but that doesn't make the Nook heavy. My pen is heavier than my pencil but that doesn't make my pen heavy. Let's put this in perspective and a little dose of reality. The Nook weighs 11oz's The Nook weighs right about the same as a 400 page Trade Paperback book. Now if a trade paperback book was oooooohhh sooo heavy for you than I don't know what to tell you. Egads people what did you guy do before e-readers came out? Whined and complain about hardcovers? Geeesh those things weigh about 2 to 3lbs and people complain about an 11 oz Nook? Sorry just cant wrap my head around it. So yes the nook is heavier than the K3 it is by no means in any way shape or form heavy. If you truely find the Nook too heavy well maybe some milk should be added to your diet because you may have some brittle bones
Yes, you're 100% right, the Nook is not heavy. It's heavier than the K3. When choosing pbooks I tend to avoid trade paperbacks and hard cover books because of their weight. For me lighter is better. Maybe I'm the only one? I dunno.
Being able to mail docs to the K3 is a nice feature.
Huh? IOW's "We don't except other formats besides Mobi, send it to us and wait for it to be returned" as opposed Ok epub straight to my Nook device. that I just don't get.
Definitely not a killer app but I've found it useful for loading PDFs when I didn't have a cable handy.
to each his own I guess, I don't notice the reflectivity at all. Its really not an issue but I guess if some people are over the top senstive then as I said to each his own.
There's one other person here on MR that is annoyed by this so likely I'm a freak in this regard.  |
To anyone trying to decide between the two, definitely pay attention to what boswd has written about the Nook. It's a great reader!
