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Originally Posted by Snow Sciles
I don't want to have to root my Nook to get what I consider basic functionality. For all the complaints about the Kobo, I can see why it sells as it has many features. I'm now thinking about getting one, but I like the Nook, the feel of it and its design. I want it to succeed, it's sad to hear they're struggling.
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For me, I just want a way to read books and I don't consider all these features (rating, multi-tasking, etc.) you want as "basic functionality." I like my Kindles, but I still think the Nook Simple Touch is the best eReader (for reading) available. For some reason, with the Kindle, I always have trouble getting the right font size. It seems like the gradations between the font sizes is too great. Position 3 is slightly too small (for me), position 4 is too big. (Though I'm experimenting now with loading my own fonts on the Kindle Touch.) One thing that does not work right with the Nook is syncing to your other devices. Kindle does this so well -- in general the Kindle infrastructure is vastly superior. And I'm using the translate feature quite a lot -- I wish it had Latin (might have to root it and change it Google instead of Bing). Not much luck with the Sony T2, fonts are too light for my taste. I had a Kobo -- one of the early ones -- but it didn't seem too refined at the time. I realize that a whole lot has probably changed but I'm pretty much settled with Nook and Kindle now (the Sony will be sold).