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Originally Posted by jocampo
I am an IT guy (SQL DBA) ;-) so was struggling when reading technical books on my Nook. Because that I decided give a try and bought the Kindle graphite DX just for my technical books and keep using the Nook for text books only, in order to retain some of the B&N features: online store free reading, epub, lending, etc. But when I discovered that I was not able to read my B&N epub ebooks on my Kindle DX because the DRM protection my bubble exploded!
Then I decided to visit a Target store with my Nook in hand and compared myself, with no sales representative pressure, pros and cons between both devices and the Kindle 3 sold itself!
The argument that we don't have epub support on Kindle but we do with B&N suddenly makes no sense anymore and was not a selling point to me. After all, why you want epub support if you can't export your epub books anyway? That is basically same proprietary format issues Amazon has, is not?
I own two Kindles now and selling my old Nook online
I weighted these reasons:
-Lightness
-Battery life
-Book inventory, in especial for technical books: SQL, PHP, RDMS, etc
-Dictionary
-The menu button (on the Nook, kind of sluggish sometimes)
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funny I just brought my nook into Best Buy to test out the new text of the nook after the lastest update which made it bolder and it confirmed my choice of going with the nook, the Kindle's new Pearl screen just isn't that much better or even at all. I even asked an innocent bystander to compare and they said ehhh it's looks the same to me.
The point of ePub on the nook as opposed to the kindle isn't about the books sold at BN's , yes those are pretty much no different then the books sold at Amazon, it's the ability to shop at multiple places that sell their books with ePub format and the ability to check out books from the library.
And yes I know before everyone chimes in You can strip away any DRM etc. but with the nook, you don't have that worry, It's simple, download then sideload, no extra steps. That's the argument for having ePub.
to each his own I guess.