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Originally Posted by boswd
saw this while shopping tonight. i alread own the original but downloaded this sample to check out the illustrations on the nook color.
WoW, this is pretty sweet and just justifies the purchase of the nook color even more.
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This is sweet, boswd! Thanks for sharing. I can't wait until they start selling enhanced books because that's when the NC will really shine. I did a search on "illustrated" and the only book that's similar is Bill Bryson's
A Short History of Nearly Everything. The topic is probably too dry for most people, but the sample shows the potential of illustrated books. I've tried some cookbook and photography samples that look great. I couldn't find that many travel ebooks, which is disappointing. There is a
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Top 10 Milan - that sample looks great too! There are a few National Geographic ebooks, but the samples are too short to tell if they have graphics like the print editions. I didn't have much luck finding art or architecture ebooks. I've also downloaded a few public domain books from Google with color illustrations that look fantastic on the NC. If anybody else finds some good illustrated books, then please share!
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Originally Posted by Ozric
This books sounds pretty cool. I've never read a Dan Brown or seen The DaVinci Code or anything. Will I be missing anything if I read The Lost Symbol without being familiar with anything else?
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I agree that it doesn't matter much if you read them out of order. I read them as 2, 1, 3. My favorite of the trio was
Angels and Demons. Have you seen the Nicolas Cage
National Treasure movies?
The Lost Symbol reminded me of that movie franchise.