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Originally Posted by Fuego
Just saw the Nook Color for $139 on buy.com and i'm not sure if it is a good buy for college. Help me out with this decision please
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Hi,
And welcome to mobileread.
If what you mean "good for college" is a nice ereader for textbooks, I'm afraid there is no good ereader or device for such kind of books. Most tablets and eink ereaders do not allow annotations or more powerful editing tools on top of the actual book.
If you are going to read some ebooks for a class, and planning to buy Nook Color for that purpose, I recommend you to validate their price and availability on the B&N website, even before investing your money on it. However, for pure text books, with no images or a few, you should go for an eink device, not a tablet. Sony, Nook Touch or even new Kindles, are most popular choices, with Amazon (Kindle) in my experience, having a better textbook and IT collection than the other two. But again, you should check yourself.
If you need a device for PDFs, the Nook Color is probably not a good choice, in my opinion. The default PDF reader lacks of many options that will make the reading experience a painful one. Also, 7" is kind of small for most PDFs and documents and that's something that even after rooting (hacking the system to make it a natural Android device with open market) can't be fixed. An iPad 1st generation with GoodReader app, would be a better choice.