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Originally Posted by jocampo
One point.
Nook Touch does not do landscape, Sony does. That can't be improved even via hack, as far as I know;
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Sorry, that is not correct. External 3rd party Android Apps are able to do landscape just fine.
Here's a video showing early results with a number of 3rd party Android PDF Apps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAcdHuI5hw
So, now you know different.
I agree with most of the reviewers comments, including that the Sony's PDF capabilities are currently less buggy and better integrated.
. . . But where the reviewer totally blows it, is in failing to point out that these apps have not had a chance to be optimized for the Nook STR.
This video gives an overview only of the early results. You should keep in mind that the only reason for many of the limitations that are mentioned is that these apps have not yet been tweaked for the eInk Nook STR.
The Nook STR is projected to sell in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO MILLIONS, and the idea that the developers of these reader apps will not tweak them for the Nook, after spending thousands of hours tweaking them to run on everything from a Galaxy Tablet to a crappy little Android Smart Phone, is insane.
So ultimately, I expect the Nook STR will not only have Apps that let it read formats that my Sony lacks, but also to outperform the Sony on both the EPUB and PDF reading experience and features.
The key here is that there is money to be made, as well as some terrific open source software available as a starting point, so ultimately, Android will redeem the Nook STR, even if B&N doesn't.
