No both are NOT the same, because ALL of the Nooks can now read DRM protected books purchased not only from B&N, but also from Kobo, Google, Sony, and Borders,
WITHOUT having to resort to removing the DRM.
NONE of the Kindle models can read ANY books from ANY other DRM protected source.
Kindle owners like to bather on about the fact that there are "jus hudreds and hudreds" of books stores were you can buy "praticly anythin you want" in MOBI format without DRM, (assuming that you don't want to do business with Amazon for some silly reason) but this is a silly stupid lie.
If not a stupid lie, then tell me all the Stores selling Harper Collins, Doubleday, Picket, Penguin, Scribners or ANY other mainstream publishers titles, for mainstream authors like Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, John Grisham, Lee Child, James Patterson, etc, WITHOUT DRM.
If you own a Nook, you can buy books published by EVERY SINGLE ONE of the above publishers, from EVERY SINGLE ONE of the above authors, from AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT MAJOR ONLINE BOOKSTORES, B&N, Sony, Borders, Google, and Kobo (just to name a few, there may be others); Then you can very easily sideload these books onto a Nook WITHOUT REMOVING THE DRM.
If you own a Kindle, ANY KIND OF KINDLE, so far as I know, for ALL of the above listed publishers and authors (as well as 98 percent of the current mainstream books) you are only able to buy from ONE SOURCE WITHOUT REMOVING DRM - and that source is AMAZON.
Please! Stop with this "Kindle is really just as good" stuff, you're killing me!
