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Wow! Thanks for all the great responses everybody.
As for the nooks, we will be giving mine to my nephew, and most likely my wife's to his wife. We need to transition completely to the Kindle first. I suspect that after my wife sees my Kindle 3, she will likewise want one since we need to make frequent trips to the Mayo Clinic which is almost a two hour drive each way and then a day of my waiting for her to deal with the specialists.
As for owning several ereaders, that is an interesting story. The initial reason that we got into these things at all was because our first trip to the Mayo Clinic was a full week. I play solo fingerstyle guitar and decided to bring my guitar and several music books. I ended up with a sizeable suitcase full of them. I always travel very light, so this was unusual and also a hassle to haul around. At Barnes and Noble, we saw the nook and decided to see if it could work for PDF sheet music. I had to softroot it to get a decent PDF reader that could do landscape/pan/zoom, but even then the screen was just too small to do it well enough for sheet music. But we both discovered that ereaders with that eInk display were perfect for real reading too.
The solution for the sheet music was the Kindle DXG. An older man in our condo building has one because it can read to him and he can easily have large fonts for reading. I was impressed with it, so I got one.
But then I began to put books on it and use it all the time instead of the nook because the DXG is so much more responsive all around. It seems silly to have one of each because I can't sync them or share books across them. So I ordered the Kindle 3 to replace the nook completely.
I am sure that these devices will last us a long time. It really was a matter of discovering what we wanted to do with them and which was really "right" for us. Now, there are no nagging issues in the back of our minds as to whether we should have gone with one or the other. It really is a toss-up as to whether the nook or Kindle is better for a particular person. Unfortunately, you have to live with them for a while to really know. But at least we now know and our nephew, who really can't afford either ereader, will have a nook to work with. Everybody wins, even if we did spend too much money.
Tony
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