I am happy to see that both the new Nook and Kobo have added touchscreen capabilities. I love my Sony touchscreens better than my K3 keyboard. I feel as if the new Nook is catching up to what I already have on my Sony ereaders. There really isn't any reason for me to considering buying another eink reader for now. I will wait to read the user reviews. However, I am really excited about this announcement and think it generates good competition in the ereader arena. I am looking forward to where the technology is headed.
Hardware just keeps getting better and better. I don't feel as if the firmware is developing at the same pace. I think that Kobo, Sony, Nook & Kindle all have something that they do the best. I wish I could combine the Kobo Reading Stats with the Sony Collections/Dictionaries/Annotations with the Nook EPUB bookstore with the Kindle browser/blogs/periodicals.
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Originally Posted by apastuszak
I want to know about the firmware. Are sideloaded books still second class citizens? Is book organization better than shelves? As much as I love 2 months of battery life, and eInk pearl, I need to see how the firmware works before I can make a decision on whether to upgrade my wife's nook.
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I have purchased most of my books from non-B&N sources. I want an e-ink reader that treats all of my content the same when it comes to organization.
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Originally Posted by SCION
Most likely there will be no metadata recognition (not even book info/summary) and basic manual library management. The first NOOK and NOOKcolor are like this. I won't be manually shelving anything,; I'll just keep a small quantity of books on the device sorted by recently read, title, or author.
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I only store a small quantity of books on my NOOKcolor and that's ok because it isn't my primary ereader. However, I want the ability to store my entire e-library on an e-ink device. I so wish that manufacturers would get that metadata recognition or folder support is important to many people. It seems funny to me how they like to boast how many books you can store on their ereaders and then don't give you the proper tools to be able to organize them! I don't want to manually shelve hundreds of books, especially if a reset may lose the work. It would be nice if whatever "MyNook" turns out to be allows for syncing of shelves for B&N content across multiple devices (like on your Nook e-ink and NOOKcolor) like Amazon does for Kindles. That would be a step in the right direction.