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jswinden · 01-31-2011, 10:47 AM

Let's see I paid $250 for my NC and $250 for my Sony PRS-950. I'm a reader centric person who could care less about the toy apps available for iPad and Android (still just cellular OS). So I got the best of eInk and LCD reading for the same amount as an iPad. I can read outside in direct sunlight (950 only) or inside in low light. Plus I didn't pay the greedmeister at Apple any hard earned money!

I spent over 25 years in the software industry and in retirement I still spend most of the day in front of an LCD monitor, and yes the pitch sucks on LCD computer monitors and makes reading rough on my eyes. It is better on my NC because there is less pitch, less space between pixels (dots) because they took a resolution made for 10" and up monitors and squeezed it down to 7". This is much easier on my eyes and makes reading for long periods possible. The ipad gave me a headache within 30 minutes--yep I tried one. The high resolution on my iPod touch 4G is even better than the NC inch per inch, but a 3.5" screen is way too small for pretty much anything!

I really wish people would stop calling the NC a "tablet" altogether as it was designed for a reader and really doesn't have the stuff under the hood to make it a true tablet, nor the buttons nor the USB ports. It is a reader, and a reader by any other root is still a READER. It is not like Android is a true tablet OS either, and it won't even come close until at least 3.0. I hate Apple, but quite frankly a 7" iPad would blow the NC, Tab, and all the rest of the Android tablet wannabees out of the water.

As a reader the NC is okay, but just. B&N needs to greatly improve the PDF capability as well as add some ePub reader functionality that is basic to nearly every dedicated reader. I'll keep mine because at the price point nothing else comes close, but then again the only competition in its price range is from glorified digital photo frames! And yes, a photo frame by any other root is still a photo frame.

01-31-2011, 10:47 AM	#31
jswinden Nameless Being	Let's see I paid $250 for my NC and $250 for my Sony PRS-950. I'm a reader centric person who could care less about the toy apps available for iPad and Android (still just cellular OS). So I got the best of eInk and LCD reading for the same amount as an iPad. I can read outside in direct sunlight (950 only) or inside in low light. Plus I didn't pay the greedmeister at Apple any hard earned money! I spent over 25 years in the software industry and in retirement I still spend most of the day in front of an LCD monitor, and yes the pitch sucks on LCD computer monitors and makes reading rough on my eyes. It is better on my NC because there is less pitch, less space between pixels (dots) because they took a resolution made for 10" and up monitors and squeezed it down to 7". This is much easier on my eyes and makes reading for long periods possible. The ipad gave me a headache within 30 minutes--yep I tried one. The high resolution on my iPod touch 4G is even better than the NC inch per inch, but a 3.5" screen is way too small for pretty much anything! I really wish people would stop calling the NC a "tablet" altogether as it was designed for a reader and really doesn't have the stuff under the hood to make it a true tablet, nor the buttons nor the USB ports. It is a reader, and a reader by any other root is still a READER. It is not like Android is a true tablet OS either, and it won't even come close until at least 3.0. I hate Apple, but quite frankly a 7" iPad would blow the NC, Tab, and all the rest of the Android tablet wannabees out of the water. As a reader the NC is okay, but just. B&N needs to greatly improve the PDF capability as well as add some ePub reader functionality that is basic to nearly every dedicated reader. I'll keep mine because at the price point nothing else comes close, but then again the only competition in its price range is from glorified digital photo frames! And yes, a photo frame by any other root is still a photo frame.