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Originally Posted by boswd
I disagree with Delphin not exactly sure what is so confusing
your home row consist of 6 icons
Daily
shop
Reading Now
Library
Games
WiFi
Settings
If I want to shop guess which Icon you pick If you want to pick up where you left off, guess which Icon you pick, If you want to look at books in your library guess what Icon you pick. sensing a pattern here and inside each Icon all your options are clearly laid out in a scrolling matter
I mean we are all going to chest thum our own devices we love the best thing you can do is just play around with each, weigh each devices pros and cons and go from there.
both are great readers, I for one think you get more bang for your buck and great features and such on the nook, Dlephin loves her Sony.
but its your money and your eyes.
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I agree that if someone is interested in both, they should do everything possible to try to actually get a hands-on demonstration before making a decision.
If you can't find someone that actually owns one, try to actually find a store with a Sony and then check out the Nook at B&N.
Didn't want to get into specifics on why I didn't like the Nook. I could have lived with one if I hadn't seen the Sony first, but since you asked -
I didn't like the small size of the touch screen area on the Nook, it made for way too much scrolling in lists and menus, and you could only see a couple book cover thumbnails at a time, and has been already mentioned, like any backlit TFT LCD, it's hard to see in daylight.
You mentioned that the Nook has a fairly simple opening menu, but what you didn't mention is that when you select "Library" you then have to chose from two different sub-menus, one for B&N stuff, and a distinctly different LESS SOPHISTICATED menu for all your other "My Documents".
So although the B&N does get big points with me for at least supporting Overdrive library titles and un-drm-encumbered public domain EPUBs, I do NOT like the fact that they show up as distinctly "second class citizens".
Sure, all ebooks are equal "but
some ebooks
are more equal than others" apparently.
In the manual it takes about 15 pages to describe all the goodies available in the for-pay "My B&N Library" section, but only a couple paragraphs to describe the "My Documents" section.
This unnecessary distinction, and different menus and features for books depending on where you got them, was just one of the things that gave me that "Just thrown togeather" feeling about the Nook.
In the main "My B&N Library" section there is already a way to sort by content type, magazines, newspapers, books etc, so it would have been logical to simply add the "user content" books as a separate category in this listing.
On my Sony I can Open Calibre on my Linux Laptop, transfer some free books from feedbooks, then go upstairs to my Win7 desktop and transfer some paid titles from Kobo, Google, or the Sony store, then go to my friends house and grab 500 classics by just dragging them onto an SD card with no regard to folder layout, and on the Sony, ALL THOSE BOOKS END UP NICELY SORTED INTO ONE SINGLE SEAMLESS MASTER LISTING.
On my Sony PRS-650, not only can I browse my local books using a much better
full sized touch screen thumbnail browser, but I can use that browser for
ALL my book titles, with indexing, and search features that also work for
ALL by book titles. So, on my Sony none of my books are '
second class citizens', just because I didn't buy them from Sony.