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Originally Posted by domromer
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.
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Yeah, there is no doubt that the Kindle 3 has pretty much brought the Kindle line to as small as it can get without either shrinking the screen or ditching the keyboard. But if size is what you are really looking for, well, the PRS-650 is going to be hard to beat.
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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.
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The Kindle could support Adobe... but I doubt it is going to happen anytime soon. Apple likes the fact that the Kindle ties the customer to Amazon's book store (at least for most customers with respect to DRM'd books), and their market share is so dominant, they are unlikely to do anything to mess with the formula that has made them so successful so far.
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Bill