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domromer · 10-14-2010, 10:23 PM

So now that I held some actual E readers I'm more confused. I was at best buy and held both the nook and the kindle. So I loved how light the kindle was. It felt as small as a thin paperback. The nook felt very bulky compared to the kindle. The obvious problem is that kindle doesn't play well with libraries that use overdrive.

So that leaves me with some new questions. Do you think the kindle will ever support over drive? Could it be something addressed in a firmware update? Should I wait to see if the nook 2 is made as thin as the new kindle? LAstly I'm thinking maybe just get the kindle and convert the libraries epub books in a format that the kindle can read. I don't see this as stealing as I'm borrowing it from the library and not selling it on. Is this a hard time consuming thing to do? I've read the instructions for using the calibre software and it doesn't seem like it would be too bad.

Oh and if I bump my budget up to $190 or so can I get an ereader with hardware as nice as the kindle with the ability to work with epub files and overdrive.

10-14-2010, 10:23 PM	#24
domromer Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Something that works well with libraries.	So now that I held some actual E readers I'm more confused. I was at best buy and held both the nook and the kindle. So I loved how light the kindle was. It felt as small as a thin paperback. The nook felt very bulky compared to the kindle. The obvious problem is that kindle doesn't play well with libraries that use overdrive. So that leaves me with some new questions. Do you think the kindle will ever support over drive? Could it be something addressed in a firmware update? Should I wait to see if the nook 2 is made as thin as the new kindle? LAstly I'm thinking maybe just get the kindle and convert the libraries epub books in a format that the kindle can read. I don't see this as stealing as I'm borrowing it from the library and not selling it on. Is this a hard time consuming thing to do? I've read the instructions for using the calibre software and it doesn't seem like it would be too bad. Oh and if I bump my budget up to $190 or so can I get an ereader with hardware as nice as the kindle with the ability to work with epub files and overdrive. Last edited by domromer; 10-14-2010 at 10:28 PM.