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Originally Posted by boswd
or just buy an ePub supported device and drag and drop  I mean seriously who want to go through stripping the DRM every single time you buy a non Amazon ebook. and besides there is no gurantee the format will come out nice and neat. and please don't say that is does. My coworker who owns a kindle would flat our refute your claim He has about 50 Stephen King books that are basically unreadable do to format conversion error. Some books are one paragraph long, no breaks. Others have breaks in mid sentence and are all jumbled. Now to be fair a good portion did come out just fine but a sign. amount also got butchered.
Too many great options in terms of great ereading devices available out there right now to have to go through a "process". To me there is nothing compelling about the Kindle that you can't find elsewhere that would make me want to go through that every time. not worth it. JMHO. |
Well, I'd go through the process anyway, since I like to use calibre to keep a database of my books. With the Kindle, I don't have to muck with ADE or USB hookups or anything else.
Stripping DRM is a matter of a one-time download and click click install of the plugin, and from there, it's a transparent event that happens whenever I drag a title into calibre.
Re conversion - Not sure why your friend had problems, but I'd guess they started as pdfs or epubs that were made from pdfs, instead of epubs downloaded from stores.
I've converted at least a hundred, and with no issues, other than a margin I needed to tweak and there. I haven't seen people here complain of losses like that when converting from epub novels, either.
To the OP, I love B&N and wanted to support them, but for ebooks, I chose Kindle over Nook because
- I love/need the TTS,
- the text is sharper,
- the weight/size lighter/smaller
- fear the lcd window would glare from my book light (not sure - you might ask about that) or get smudges
- battery life - don't have to take the charger when I leave town
- Amazon is my favorite ebook store
But if those things are not an issue for you, I think you'd be happy with the nook, and if you can get it for that price, go for it.