If it was a choice between a laptop and anything else, choose the laptop. If you are simply looking to supplement with a reading device, it's one of the best in a pile of mediocre, not-quite-there devices.
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Originally Posted by Nahgem
The PDF readers available for the Nook Color aren't very good, though.
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Have you used ezPDF? Easily worth the buck or two the author charges. You can add the following on top of any PDF you read:
- Underline
- Strike-out
- Sticky-note
- Freehand
- Figure
- Textbox
It'll even auto-crop the margins if you ask it to. I read a lot of technical books and the Nook Color held sideways is a great size and weight without being unreadable.
Unfortunately, no Nook Study (which I hear is good) and I don't believe ezPDF supports DRM files.
The point Magnus raises about back-ups could be important. ezPDF makes it seem like it adds your notes directly into the document (i.e., it modifies the PDF), but I don't use the notes feature extensively enough to know if that is true.