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Originally Posted by lvillanueva5
So...I wanted to give an update. After reading everyone suggestions, I went to Best Buy and looked at the Nook, Kindle and Sony.
After looking at them all side by side...litterally (they had them all on display on one counter side by side) I decided on the Nook. I was looking at the wi-fi only and I prefered the Nook over the Kindle. Sony looked awesome, but I think the smaller screen and weight difference turned me off. And they didn't have the one mentioned above, but the next upgraded model which was $200.00.
I'm the kind of person that rarely buys myself anything and rather gift to other people or pay bills (lol) so deciding to drop anything over $200.00 on myself for something that I technically don't "need" is really hard for me to do. And looking at what I was actually going to do with the device and knowing I have my router at home made the 3G moot.
I liked the fact that the book cover was in color and that it was touch screen opperated on the bottom instead of the small keyboard that was on the Kindle. I liked the fact that if my library grew, I could just buy another memory card. And that if the battery died to my obsessive reading, I could just go and buy one.
However, I am concerned a bit about what I read before. Would BN be able to delete my books from my Nook? When I purchase a book from them, is it actually stored on my device or am I accessing it off of their storage? Is there a way for me to back up the books from my device onto my PC so that I always have a copy?
Thanks!
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It sounds like you made a great decision. Enjoy your Nook.
Yes they can but they won't. Amazon took a huge PR hit with the 1984 debacle and no one wants to have those issues.
And yes, you can download and save copies of the books on your computer. As amatter of fact, many folks who owned 1984 had it on their computers and simply reloaded the book and accepted the refund and three free books. (grins)
If you want, you can strop the DRM and save them so they can be read on any e-reader although you might have to convert the file type if the format it is in is different then the format of the e-reader. So, Kindle users use Mobi. We can buy an EPub book and strip DRM (if needed) and convert to Mobi using Calibre.