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Originally Posted by mcooke66
This just sounds to me like B&N bashing. I have the new nook and not only is it very responsive the form factor is one of the best things about it...
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Sorry, didn't mean it to sound that way. It's really personal preference more than anything. I think most of the e-readers are more alike than they are different.
I wanted to like the new nook, I went into B&N ready to buy one actually. But a few minutes of using it convinced me it wasn't for me. For one thing, why make a small e-reader and then make it needlessly wide with a huge bezel so it's uncomfortable to hold with one hand? To me, it feels too small for two hands and too wide for one.
The touch screen was nice, but the Sony was far more responsive, again just MHO.
The buttons the Nook did have were super stiff. Didn't like that either.
There are things I don't like about the Sony too, and the Kindle, but for me ergonomics are key, if I pick a device up and it just feels clunky/wrong from the beginning, it's hard for me to get past that.
The Sony gets the ergonomics right IMO. Fits beautifully in one hand, no ridiculously wide bezel.
On the downside, Sony's software is atrocious and of course with the PRS-350 you get no WiFi, the nook is going to be way easier to buy books on and for a lot of people that will be a deal breaker.
All that said, for me, the Sony is perfect. Ergonomics and the interface are far better than my Kindle (IMO) and I'm enjoying being free of Amazon honestly. With Calibre I'm free of the Sony software for the most part too. I'd say the E-350 is worth the $170 they ask and at the $120 BestBuy sold it to me at, it's a steal.
If B&N refines the new small nook further and narrows it down and maybe improves the touch screen, I'd definitely take another look at it further down the road. I'm not blindly faithful to any one brand.