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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Thank you for this. I realize that BN will most likely come out with new hardware in the next few months, but this was finally cheap enough that I will upgrade my old Sony.
Who knows where BN will be in the next few years, but I can't stand the proprietary format format crap that Amazon is pulling, and I'm confident the Nook will stay around, even if it has to be spun off.
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Of course, although the nook hardware is "more open" (in that it reads the generic DRM model it is based on, while Amazon specifically does not), their actual books are just as proprietary DRM'd as Amazon's (with even stupider policies, not allowing the non-enhanced content of an enhanced book to be read on a different device or app and their entire process of pre-orders and the hassle of refunds when their billing system goofs up).
OTOH, you can read in store for the price of gas there and coffee/food while you sit in the cafe (I calculated once, when using this at Starbucks, where it seemed to get colder by the minute, that it cost me a lot more to read the free books there than just to buy the blasted things, even if they cost $20 each).