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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I have no problem when you say that the Kindle is your third choice of an e-reader. I do have a problem when you say it is less technologically advanced then the Nook because it does not have a touchscreen. The Touchscreen is one feature, just like TTS and collections. Amazon could add a touchscreen if they wanted to, Amazon chooses not to.
If you look at the original Patton request by Amazon, the one that was approved, you will see that it had an LCD touchscreen at the bottom. Amazon did not go forward with it. I have never heard Amazon explain why they dropped it but probably due to battery drain and that it does not add much to the reader.
Text to Speech will not replace an audio book. If you have serious problems with your vision it is a nice way to still be able to listen to books that are not available as audio books. There are folks who use TTS on their drives to and from work because they cannot get the books they want in audio book form.
I don't use it but that does not mean it is not valuable for many people. It is also a feature not available on any other e-reader.
Collections is a piece of coding. One that took Amazon 2 years to implement and that the nook still doesn't have. If I am comparing e-readers I would note that one has a tag system and the other does not. I prefer being able to organize my books.
The readers have different features that people should explore when making a decision. One is not more technologically advanced then the other.
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I think we're talking past each other. I'm not referring to features, would could go tit for tat all day on that. And each one has features that are advantegous to their respective devices.
What I'm referring to is. The Nook actually fuses together an LCD touchscreen captactive screen with the eink technology to have them work in harmony using the icons and sub catorgory options for navigation and features and synchs up the color book cover with books you are scrolling. This is a more advanced set of technology than using a directional arrow or a a joystick.
I'm talking the actually technical aspects of the hardware and putting it together. The Nook is technically ahead of the Kindle.
You are right the Kindle chose to stay with this technology and not something more advanced. But its not the same as having a better folder/sorting features.
The nook could have this very simply with a firmware upgrade and by all accounts, i think most people would be shocked if v1.5 does not have it.
But if the Kindle wanted a touchscreen, it would have to build a totally brand new device. See what I mean?
Now, If your vision is to the point that it is bad, I still think you would be better served with audiobooks. If you have the basic sense of computing skills which I think most people who are looking for ereaders do. You can simply convert your audio books from disk to MP3 format and sideload them to your device.
If this was going to be my main source of "reading" ( i know that sounds oxymoronish) you do sort of owe it to yourself to seek out the best method. and Having an actually soothing voice for reading your audio books is a much more viable alternative the "robot" voice the kindle offers.
but what I do love about our debates Prof. is that we are debating ereaders and the iPad never did come in kill of eink and ereaders as the so called "experts" predicted.
you are fun to debate with
