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Originally Posted by kpetzing
Thanks for the suggestions
My one concern about the Nook Touch is that it doesn't take many formats according to what I've seen, and while I've used Calibre, I don't want to have to put tons of books through it.
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The good news is that some of those 'thousands of apps' that I mentioned that you can load on a Nook STR under Android are book reader apps.
This means that although readers like the Kobo, and PocketBook might support more formats natively, in the end the Nook STR is more flexible.
More flexible because you are not locked into the file formats and features supported by the built in viewers.
For example, though the built in PDF viewer on the Nook STR is not as nice as the one on my Sony, there are several 3rd party Android App PDF readers which have advanced features that my Sony lacks. For example, add-on readers like ezPDF and RepliGo, offer capabilities that you won't find on ANY of the built in PDF readers (like the ability to mark up a PDF file, then re-save the fully marked document in PDF format).
In fact, one of the advantages often cited for the PocketBook is that you can hack it to run a few additional Apps including a custom version of FBreader, which improves on it's built in reader app.
Until now, I would have considered the Pockbook to be one of the most 'hackable' readers, but the Nook STR's Android OS is about 50 times as flexible when it comes to running 3rd party software.
So, if you don't like the formats and features supported by the Nook STR out of the box, don't worry, you can run literally dozens of 3rd party viewer apps (including FBreader).