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Originally Posted by chas0039
Additionally, even though you may be correct in that it is not always going to have objective opinions, just as a Nook site will not foster negative opinions about Nook, almost all of the point of comparison in the link are not opinions, but are facts. These are not subject to bias, just omission.
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I guess that would depend in how it's presented. If some of the differences are presented as "Deal breakers" or something that a 'must have" then you can certainly insert bias into your writing even if it is facts.
what I mean is let's take two of the examples web browser and PDF's
while yes it's true the Kindle has a full functioning web browser and the Nook STR's is hidden and not fully functional, the actual real world usage of a web browser on an eink device and it's importance of a feature tend to be very minimal. Let's face it whether it's the kindle, nook classic or any eink device web browsing is clunky, and painful. It's not the ideal device if you want to surf the web, it may be useful during certain situations, but if any sort of real web surfing needs to be done, we will reach for our computers, phones or tablets.
another is PDF rendering. While Yes it's true the Kindle offers more advanced features for rendering the PDF . the argument tends to only speak of the technical type of PDF's such as maps, graphs etc and ignores text based PDF's in which the nook STR actual performs well. the nook STR allows for font sized adjustments and it reflows with the rest of novel and performs quite admirably. Now please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the Kindle reflows text in PDF, but I'm not positive on that. But the point is on the technical PDF's side again, 6 inch eink device are poor choices and none handle all that well. So if someone was serious about an ereader and needs solid PDF support in their device this person isn't looking to a 6 inch eink ereader no matter how many options it may give you, painful is still painful
So what I'm trying to say is while yes you can take some differences that are true but if you place a high importance on these differences that can introduce and show bias.
Because let's be honest a 6 inch ereader are not good web or tech. PDF' devices and to the average consumer having a more modern touch screen with a slick UI will be of a higher priority then lets say reading a map. Being able to touch a word and get it's definition as opposed to using a directional arrow to scroll to find your word are much more useful features then kludging along a webpage that will likely make you want to put a bullet through your head.