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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
(sigh)
For the 9,000 time, a touchscreen does not make an e-reader more advanced. It is one feature that some people like and some people hate. I hate touchscreens and don't want one on my e-reader. Just because you think it is cool does not make the Kindle the least advanced of the readers. The joystick on the DXG works fine for me.
As for more advanced, the Kindle has a functional browser, text to speech, and collections all of which are missing from the Nook.
Personally, a battery draining, LCD screen that shows thumbnail size color book covers is not something that excites me.
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also another *sigh* right back at ya
the Kindle does not cure cancer nor create world peace, nor is it the the end all be all that Kindle fans make it out to be.
does having a LCD color screen make the Nook the most technologically advanced ereader, no but certainly more so than the kindle's navigational options which is whether you want to believe it or not or refuse to accept it or not an antiquited way to go around your device in this day and age.
Yes you don't prefer a touchscreen, fine, well my father doesn't like touchscreens either and is very happy with his $25 Go Phone.
And he also has no desire for an HDTV.
Personal preferences to stay with a certain technology doesn't keep that technology on par for the game. Do you see what a I mean?
You could love your rotary phone better than your cell phone but doesn't make your rotary phone on the same playing field as an iPhone or a Droid.
If you choose a Kindle over the Nook or Sony or vice vesa, it's based on reason of your needs. I get that. I really do. I'm just pointing out that the Kindle is not the most technically advanced of the Three leading e-readers. It's just a simple fact. It's not.
Great marketing department doesn't always equal the best product.
The Nook's lack of a collections feature as compared with the Kindle's is not a tech. advancement on kindle's part. For one it's can be remedied by a software upgrade and two it's nothing that the Kindle is capable of having and the Nook isnt.
For example my new Droid X phone syncs up to my hotmail account. The iPhone does not. Well not as easy without some manueverin, but that doesn't make the Droid X more tech. advanced than the iPhone. If Apple wanted it coupld push out a firmware upgrade and make it happen. Do you see where I'm coming from?
Ohh and as far as the Kindle's text to speech. Are you kidding me? Have you heard that voice? If that doesn't scream 1980's "WAR Games" voice. " Do you want to play a game? How about a game of Chess". The movie with Matthew Broderick.
That is THE most antiquted voice system on any device out on the market and only further's my point.
I mean seriously, even you got to admit the electronic voice used for text to speech is horrible to the point it's an embarrasement.
