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Originally Posted by kblair210
I don't disagree there are people out there who may not enjoy reading from an LCD screen or prefer an eInk screen, but anyone can google and find out LCD screens cause no more eye strain than eInk screens. [/I]
The only places an eInk reader surpasses the NC (in my opinion) is weight, battery life and in the case of the Kindle, their Whispersync technology.
If all you want to do is read books, I would argue the NC is a better solution because it allows a wider variety of book formats and from a wider variety of sources (libraries, Google Books, etc).
I agree with the annoyance of B&N's limitations on the home screen, but the device is so technically superior to other readers it's an annoyance I can live with by using the library versus the home screen.
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Actually, I have both the Nook classic and the Nook Color. When I'm reading text and epub books, I find reading on the e-ink screen to be superior than on the NC. Staring at a computer LCD all day long at work, when I actually want to sit down and read a book, the e-ink screen is more relaxing to my eyes. I find that even with the NC brightness dialed way down, it's still too bright. The Nook classic also does epubs from the library and google books.
Doesn't matter much anways, as OP is returning his NC. If he's unhappy with it for whatever reason, I don't think rooting the device would gain him that much more of a reader out of it. He stated that if he returned the Nook Color, he'd still be shopping for another "ereader", not multi-purpose tablet device, to replace it. Hence, I recommended for an e-ink reader. I never mentioned "Kindle".