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Old 04-22-2014, 03:08 AM   #2
rcentros
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Originally Posted by joy sparkles View Post
But it has me curious- which is better for reading textbooks, the Nook or the iPad? BTW, I am not experienced with Android products, and very much into Apple products.
If you're talking about a Nook Color (HD, HD+) or Kindle Fire, there's not much difference at all between them and an iPad for reading. You're basically just using the apps -- and a standard Nook HD can't read Kindle books, nor can a standard Kindle Fire read Nook books. So the iPad has the advantage of being able to use both formats.

EDIT: I'm completely wrong here. I've been corrected. The Kindle Fire can be set up to download the Nook App (didn't know that) and, since the Nook HD and HD+ now have Google Play, they obviously can download the Kindle App (as well as the Kobo App). So I'm completely wrong here. Sorry for the misinformation.

A Nook or Kindle E-Ink reader is a completely different animal. Personally, for reading, I prefer an E-Ink screen -- actually I don't have much use for a color tablet at all (I guess that makes me a Luddite). I do have an old HP TouchPad, but about the only time I "use it" is to recharge it once a month, or so.

Whether an E-Ink device would be good for textbooks depends on the format of the textbooks. If they've got a lot of color charts, or the books are in PDF format, then it would probably be better to use the iPad. If they're mostly text, then one of the E-Ink devices should work fine.

But, again, if you're comparing the iPad to a color Nook or Kindle device, then I don't see much reason to buy one of these devices -- unless you just want a point of demarcation between reading device and "computer" (tablet).

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