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Originally Posted by boswd
This what you wrote:
1. Not taking notes.
2. Not making bookmarks that you want to export later.
3. Not wanting to easily "reset" book data (last page read), etc.
4. Not reading in "night mode".
5. Not reading in landscape mode
1. You most certainly can take notes on the nook color and nook classic for that matter
2. No it doesn't export but you can bookmark
3. Not sure what you mean here. the both nooks holds your last spot where you last read. even withou speciafically book marking. You can juggle three books and when you pull up your book it automaticaly goes to the last page read.
4. Not reading in night mode is again purely subjectable. I don't mind it, in fact like the white on blue text, if it's too bright then bring down the brightness or use another background.
5. Landscape was supposed to be part of this update,not sure what happen and not sure why its not there especially when it's offered in the Nook app. But again to me personally It doesn't affect me because 7 inch's is too small to enjoy reading in landscape, but again those are just my needs and wants.
as to your other complaints
You are comparing Calibre file mangaing system which is designed for a PC to a file mangaing system designed for a small touch screen hand held mobile device. You just aren't going to be able to get the same High level of management on mobile device than you can on a home computer, not a fair argument
Font's. You get a choice of 6 Fonts and 6 text sizes. I mean I know you can't please everyone but egads 6 Font's? IMHO that's more than plenty to choose from.
Night Mode? Again purely subjectable, you may not like the white on blue but have you tried any other backgrounds. You aren't held to only use "Night" when reading at night. Try gray, I think Gray is wonderful
and yes I do find the stock readers UI wonderful. but again that is just my opinon  |
1. I've already explained why the highlighting functionality of the NC is broken. I don't think I should beat a dead horse. It's almost impossible to highlight exactly what you want on the first hold-and-swipe. The notes and highlights can't be exported, and are lost if the book leaves the system or if the NC reformats or unexpectedly crashes. That makes the note taking function literally worthless for me and many other users.
2. Yes, you can bookmark. I said that. No, you can't export them. Again, that's important if you want to read 700+ books across 3 devices. Some people need and want this; you do not.
3. I already explained why being able to "reset" a book to original settings is desirable. If you lend out your NC to someone else and they read 7 books you haven't opened yet, there is going to be a "last page read" maintained in perpetuity that you can't override. I don't want the book to keep re-opening to page 195 when I haven't started the book yet. Many readers give you the option to reset the book - NC does not.
4. The black screen of the night mode is incredibly bright - it's not a
blank black, it's a
bright black. It's almost as bright as the white screen - I know; my husband uses the "night mode" on his NC to read at night when I'm trying to sleep. It's bright.
5. The fact that landscape doesn't affect you doesn't change the fact that it's not there.
I kind of feel like we're arguing at cross-purposes. You made a statement that people need to make "IMHO" tags when talking about the NC reader - fair enough. I told you why, IMHO, the stock reader is bad for my needs. Now, I feel like you're telling me that I've misunderstood my own needs or something.
I've made
factual statements about the NC reader and you're arguing by saying that, well, I shouldn't be so picky about my needs. Telling me that changes were planned (but not implemented) or that you, personally, don't need more than 6 fonts, doesn't have bearing on the facts as I've presented them. And, IMHO, it undermines your original statement that this is all very subjective and people need to say "IMHO" more and so forth. Even when I say "IMHO", you ended up telling me I'm wrong because people don't need more than 6 fonts or supposedly I don't know how to use the night mode when I'm willing to bet I've messed with the NC night mode more than most people.
I'm not a fanboi and these are legitimate complaints from my corner. I'm not going to argue about whether or not 6 fonts is "enough" - the point is that B&N doesn't let you load more, whereas many (I'd even say MOST) other readers I've used DO let you load more. If people are going to say the stock reader is 'excellent', they need to be prepared for people like me saying, "What does the B&N stock app do that no other reader does? What does it do that SOME other readers don't?" I'm not trying to troll - I'm genuinely curious. I've told you why it's a bad reader for me, but you've said nothing about why you think it's GOOD - just a lot of stuff about how it meets your basic needs. Great, but so does every other reader out there, as I pointed out in my first post. Where's the "wonderful" ness you are seeing? I'd genuinely like to know.
As for this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by boswd
as to your other complaints
You are comparing Calibre file mangaing system which is designed for a PC to a file mangaing system designed for a small touch screen hand held mobile device. You just aren't going to be able to get the same High level of management on mobile device than you can on a home computer, not a fair argument
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Well, huh. My PocketBook 360 manages shelves from Calibre very nicely. Odd that my NC can't.
