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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
In the Age of Online, I don't need a physical store. I have a Nook Color and I've never set foot inside a B&N; and never intend to.
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If everything you want to read is available as an ebook, that's a valid strategy. But there are whole classes of books that aren't good fits for ebooks. For instance, I'm a former designer and print production guy. I have a number of volumes on design, typography, art, and photography. These are
large format books, requiring true color reproduction. There is no way they would work on an eInk based reader, because those don't support color, and even on a reader like the nook color that does, the screen simply isn't big enough. (In some cases, the 26" monitor attached to my desktop wouldn't be big enough.)
I have a B&N superstore in walking distance of me where I can get such things, and
do find it worth setting foot in.
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Dennis