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And here I thought that the silly "Locked into Amazon" thread had finally died a well deserved death. There are book stores that sell Mobi books other then Amazon. It requires the same amount of work to use those bookstore as it does to use the Sony or Kobo store for the Nook.
It takes a few seconds longer to use a book from Sony or Kobo or BN making it pretty much hassle free.
I would not buy a Nook. I have seen a few (two) in public. They appear to be pretty close in size to the Kindle, the Color LCD screen at the bottom looks silly and makes navigation for things like bookmarks, highlighting, taking notes, and using the dictionary a pain in the butt.
I prefer the form factor of the Kindle and I love that I don't have to recharge my Kindle all that frequently because there is no battery draining LCD touchscreen at the bottom of my device.
If a touchscreen is important to you, I would take a look at the new Kobo. The specs were released today and it looks nice. Obviously there are no reviews on how it works yet. I am sure that the computer magazines will start reviewing it as soon as they can. Nook is announcing something tomorrow.
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