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Originally Posted by jswinden
So it disgusts me to see fanboys who are so blindly dedicated to such unscrupulous companies. I'll use their products, but don't expect me to preach the gospel of Google, or of Amazon, or of Apple, etc.
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People should remember that the Kindle and the Nooks are basically designed to generate profit for Amazon and B&N through book sales. They are not public services and so both companies try to tie the devices pretty closely to their book marketing. That is where their profit is, not in the devices.
My personal opinion is that the Nook is a much better eReader, but Amazon has a better book store.
The Amazon store sample books contain much more text than the B&N and Amazon allows book returns for 7 days. The Nook store samples are sometimes so short that there is not enough text to determine if the book is worth reading and there are no returns. True, you can sample the book for an hour if you live near a B&N store, but only if you live near one.
But the Nook Color has a larger screen, more functionality and is very nice to hold and use. In my opinion, it is much nicer than any of the Kindles. I read history books and need a larger screen for some of the maps and tables and cannot imagine trying to read a display map on the very small Kindle screens.
If I could find a really good 3rd party eReader that satisfied all of my needs (light, thin and comfortable enough to hold, color screen, both portrait and landscape modes and the ability to properly display Eastern European fonts I would buy that and forget about both the Kindle and the Nook. But since I can't find anything that completely fits my needs I end up using both the iPad (yes, the iPad which, although too large and heavy to be easily useful is a decent eReader if you are not walking around carrying the reader with you) or the Nook Color if you are walking around with the device. I thought the new black-and-white Nook might suit my needs, but there is no landscape mode.