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Originally Posted by Kaywrote
The biggest thing for me is that I want to "bring" my books from home with me when I go overseas. I have been able to find a lot of the books I own online (mostly pdf files or epub), and I'd much rather not re-buy books I already own (again, broke college student syndrome kicking in). I've heard that with the Kindle (the one that others in my family have) that's not possible, and from my research the Nook didn't sound doable either. I don't even know if any ereaders will let me get buy without rebuying all of my books, so maybe I'm unrealistic, but since I can't really bring my collection overseas with me, it'd be nice to have it all on the ereader without having to sell a kidney.
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I'm not sure what you mean about bringing your books with you. You can do that with any ereader, because they are on the device itself and with most stores a copy is kept online for re-downloading - at least as long as the store itself is still functioning - and you can keep backup copies of your own by periodically copying backups to a laptop or desktop hard drive. Buying books for a Nook or Kindle outside the U.S. requires workarounds.
One example for the Kindle:
http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/buy-am...tside-us/4022/
An example of a Nook workaround:
https://www.usunlocked.com/blog/?p=348
As for buying books from other sources, the proprietary format used by Amazon for its books makes it more difficult to buy Kindle-ready books from other places (that's why the proprietary format), while the format used by B&N is widely available.
I could go into a lot more that I suspect you've already been over, but I give these brief comments by way of pointing out that the real way to eliminate the confusion is to try out the ereaders you've been researching and see which you feel more comfortable with. There is no perfect feature set when it comes right down to it, but the devices themselves are quite different. One has buttons and a bite-sized keyboard while the other uses a touch screen for navigation and a "soft" keyboard for entering notes and such. Most people find themselves more comfortable with one interface than the other, and that ends up guiding the purchase decision. All of the rest - individual features one has that the other doesn't, or differences in where you can or can't buy books - people tend to work with once they've bought a device they like.
I've just been talking Kindle and Nook here because they are very close in price, and lower than most of the others, but in general terms what I said for them goes for the others as well. Where I live I can go to one of several stores (Best Buy, Staples, Target, Walmart, Barnes and Noble) and try out the Kindle and Nook for sure, and often the Sony Readers as well. So I guess that's my final advice at this point - focus on feel and comfort and price, and the rest will take care of itself once you've made your decision.