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Originally Posted by Shack70
Anyone have an opinion?
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Are you kidding? This is Opinion Central.
I'd recommend the Kindle. It's just the basics for consuming media at a rock-bottom price (until prices are slashed again). I used Amazon for purchasing pbooks, music, and video before I got my Kindle, and see no reason why I can't continue to find the vast majority of media I want via Amazon.
You make a good point, though, regarding specs. The Nook is a better tablet than the Kindle. I would counter that by the same token there are plenty of better tablets than the Nook. At the pinnacle of the tablet scale (though finally with some worthy competition) is the iPad2; or if you like the smaller format, consider what's coming Real Soon Now (tm)
from Asus. With an Android tablet you can install apps for consuming media from Amazon, B&N, Apple, Netflix, whatever.
My opinion (since you asked for it) is that the tablet market is in its infancy, a period of rapid technological advance, innovation, shake-out, and dropping prices. I'm no prophet, but I guarantee you there will be tablet computers out there a year from now you'll want to have more than the Kindle or iPad (they may even be the Kindle Inferno or iPad3). So...I say go cheap, because you'll end up buying something better for less money later. And right now, Kindle is cheap.