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A lot of stuff has happened in the last few days wrt my project. I got hit by a land mine of sorts when conferring with a librarian with tons of experience who gave me a lot of good reason to think about the Nook touch instead of the Kindle... and I am leaning heavily in that direction, after playing with the Nook the other day. Solves some of the problems I brought up in this particular thread. I do appreciate everyone's input, and once I get going, I'll put up a longer note (in the appropriate sub forum!) as to what my project is and what we're doing. I do know that as a representative of the University (and as a state employee therefore), I cannot even consider doing anything that violates user agreements or looks funny... I just want to run my little study and have things work well.
As far as the CIPA thing goes, it appears there still is a problem WITHIN the school (possibly) because apparently one can't turn off going directly to the store to browse, be it Amazon for the Kindle or B&N for the Nook, and it depends on what the school's threshold is for what they see. Is the title of a book enough to tip? the description? or would they have to actually download raunchy material. I don't know. I do know that the Nook (in contrast with the Kindle as far as I understand it) DOES have a password that specifically can bar the end user from buying, so at least I can set that and the kids can't buy books and I don't have to go through cycles of activating and deactivating my state/university procurement card (VISA card).
Anyway, thanks again to everyone who read this, and especially to those who replied with helpful answers. I really was going to go with Kindle until some point yesterday (and we might still) so it was not useless discussion (maybe someone else trying to make the decision will find it useful).
One last note: I tried to look at some Kindles with Special offers at Best Buy and Staples. They only had demo programs running, so I couldn't play with them directly. However, from what I saw (the demo DID discuss the SO), the special offers did not look very annoying at all. I could very easily see getting them for the kids, if the principal also agreed, as long as we could resolve the other internet access issues.
Thanks again
Carolyn B-G
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