Thread: Which E-Reader Works For Me?
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Old 05-02-2011, 11:51 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by boswd View Post
right now out all of your criteria the nook color fits the bill the best.
when people talk about the Nook color's browser, don't get confused, it's being compared to advanced web browser's such as Chrome, Dolphin, Fire Fox etc.

the nook color uses Googles standard web browser. It works great. depending on your wi fi connection, pages open up fast, scrolling is pretty smooth. It's light years ahead of any sort browsing you are going to get on an eink device. And the screen is absolutly FANTASTIC. If you are doing just regular web browsing the Nook color is just fine. I like. No it's not an advanced web browser like Chrome but for it's purpose it's pretty solid.

PDF's render nice on it, the biggest complaint is not holding your last page read. It is an odd ommision but the Nook Market just opend up and it does have a couple of PDF's apps that you can download and use if you find the stock PDF reader not your liking.

Also the nook color added an email application as well. I have my Gmail and my live.com synched up to it and it works great.

For free classic books, Barnes and Noble and Amazon are head and shoulders above the Sony for that in their respective bookstore hubs. Barnes and noble has the edge because they recently launched their Classic series last summer where the editions have cleaned up the errors, added footnotes, and other enhancements. They did a nice job on them.

Good luck
The Nook Color stock browser is horrible, one of the worse browsing experience ever. It is also buggy and slow, even after most recent firmware upgrade. That is one of the reason why people also root the device, because the browser capabilities. And this is not being said by me, lot of NC users are also complaining about it on the B&N forum after most recent firmware upgrade.

You are probably the only one comparing Dolphin with stock NC browser. They differences are huge!

Reading PDF on the stock Nook Color is also a terrible experience. And for being sold as an ereader, not a full feature Android Tablet, it is unacceptable that users need to pay for an external application when B&N can bring that capability for free.
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