Thread: Planning on PRS-650, but...
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Old 01-28-2011, 12:03 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by bakura82 View Post
I have considered the Nook in the past and I am not sure what their latest model is like. Have they followed suit with Amazon and Sony in upgrading the display, firmware and etc? When I tried the Nook before, I had to remove the back cover to get the SD card in and out. Does one still have to do this?

There firmware is uptodate, since it's inception they have had 5firmware upgrades. there are on v1.5 now. The screen is really nice. The last firmware upgrade bolded the text. I would say the new nook eink screen is at least on par with the new Pearl screen. Maybe sligthly marginal difference.
You still have to remove the back for the sd card slot.

I have a PRS-600 now and the problem with upgrading to wireless (such as the PRS-950) is that it doesn't let me connect to my PC or my own server where I might store books and PDFs. The wireless aspect only allows me to download books from the manufacture's store. Since I have a plethora of PDFs and I typical buy eBooks from sources other than Sony, I don't think Wifi will be very useful to me. I may be more inclined to buy from the B&N store since there prices are pretty good at times, but I can't guarantee. The truth is, much of what I read are PDF journals, free material, or library books that are not available at Sony or B&N.


If you have alot of PDF's then I would go with the 950, it is very overpriced, but if PDF's are going to be a good chunk of your reading material, then I wouldn't bother with the 650 or the nook or anyother 6 inch eink. The 950 is the star of the group for PDF's the nook does a good job on novels in PDF form but I haven't done much with them beyond novels. No graphs or anything like that.
the nook is great for buying ePubs from around the net and the Library, so it does though very well. I won't be using LCD. I should have stated e-Ink as a requirement.

I guess what I really want to know is if there are competitors out there to take serious that are NOT Amazon, B&N, Borders, and Sony?
Hmm the Entourage Edge, but that's up in iPad money territory.
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