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Froide · 01-01-2014, 09:43 PM

Never owned a Kindle, 'though I use Amazon's Kindle, music, and Audible apps on other devices. Rationale: I require a card slot and prefer open ecosystems to walled prisons -er, gardens.

Consequently, when my Significant Other offered me an eReader for Christmas 2011, I requested a NOOK Tablet 16G ("NT"). The NT offered fantastic specs in addition to accommodating a 32G microSD card and, at the time, permitting one to install/update whatever apps s/he wanted. (The following week, a NOOK Tablet OS update made the NT far less attractive by blocking the installation or updating of third-party apps. I briefly considered returning it but ultimately chose instead to create an AFN dual-boot card that allowed me to toggle between the NOOK OS and the Android OS.) I like the highly portable, easily-held-one-handed form factor of a 7" tablet as well as the NOOK OS experience, and the NOOK HD and HD+ now accommodate Google Play apps, so when the NT began acting wonky while in NOOK mode (but not in Android mode), I bought myself a NOOK HD.

01-01-2014, 09:43 PM	#145
Froide Wizard Posts: 1,898 Karma: 9851695 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Noo Yawk Device: Samsung Galaxy and Windows devices. RIP: Palm & Nook devices.	Never owned a Kindle, 'though I use Amazon's Kindle, music, and Audible apps on other devices. Rationale: I require a card slot and prefer open ecosystems to walled prisons -er, gardens. Consequently, when my Significant Other offered me an eReader for Christmas 2011, I requested a NOOK Tablet 16G ("NT"). The NT offered fantastic specs in addition to accommodating a 32G microSD card and, at the time, permitting one to install/update whatever apps s/he wanted. (The following week, a NOOK Tablet OS update made the NT far less attractive by blocking the installation or updating of third-party apps. I briefly considered returning it but ultimately chose instead to create an AFN dual-boot card that allowed me to toggle between the NOOK OS and the Android OS.) I like the highly portable, easily-held-one-handed form factor of a 7" tablet as well as the NOOK OS experience, and the NOOK HD and HD+ now accommodate Google Play apps, so when the NT began acting wonky while in NOOK mode (but not in Android mode), I bought myself a NOOK HD. Last edited by Froide; 01-01-2014 at 09:51 PM.