Thread: BN rep called Nook color a 'toy', recommended original Nook
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Old 12-10-2010, 04:55 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
A friend referred to his new iPad as "my new playtoy" last week.

It sounds to me like the sales clerk was a serious reader who was asked for her opinion by another serious reader.

Since B&N is primarily in the book business rather than the gadget business, I don't think that it is inappropriate for the clerk to refer to the NC as a toy. It would have been inappropriate if she had called it "high-priced junk", dismissing its quality. But she wasn't really criticizing the NC. She was just saying that for serious readers the Nook Wifi is a serious device and the Nook Color is not.

I think that that is a fair opinion one might have.
Just because the Nook Color isn't e-ink does not make it any less an e-reader then the Nook Classic.
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