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Jack Tingle · 06-10-2015, 09:05 PM

I gave up on the Nook some years ago after a bad experience with Jo Graham's "Chasing Fire"* and some other things, including poor performance and bad human factors. I sort of regretted it, since I was a big Fictionwise user and had a JetBook once upon a time, but B&N just couldn't keep up with other vendors.

I was mucking about on the Nexus 7 tonight and wondered if the Nook app was available on Android. It was. I think I still have a small credit from the Apple settlement. Sure enough, my old account still worked, and I discovered a lot of my old Fictionwise titles have been added to the modest library I'd accumulated on B&N. Glory be!

I was pleasantly surprised to see "The Winter Beach" and "New Celebrations" and a whole load of UK Leguin and Kage Baker titles, along with the usual questionable, small-press titles we read before Bezos finally made the market work the 2nd time.**

On a Nexus 7, the thing even works quickly. I'll have to explore a bit more. I'd commend any former users who abandoned Nook to give it another look.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

*To this day, my copy won't work properly. The text is eternally fixed in "tiny and unreadable" size. And yes, I've tried it on several devices.
** I got burned (in a tiny way) when Amazon abandoned its .lit store. Too bad, since MS Reader is still one of my favorite readers.

06-10-2015, 09:05 PM	#1
Jack Tingle Punctuation Fetishist Posts: 557 Karma: 1070000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The Bluest Commonwealth In East America Device: Kindle PW, Nexus 7 (2013), Galaxy S5 phone, Galaxy Tab 4 8.0	Pleasant Surprise I gave up on the Nook some years ago after a bad experience with Jo Graham's "Chasing Fire"* and some other things, including poor performance and bad human factors. I sort of regretted it, since I was a big Fictionwise user and had a JetBook once upon a time, but B&N just couldn't keep up with other vendors. I was mucking about on the Nexus 7 tonight and wondered if the Nook app was available on Android. It was. I think I still have a small credit from the Apple settlement. Sure enough, my old account still worked, and I discovered a lot of my old Fictionwise titles have been added to the modest library I'd accumulated on B&N. Glory be! I was pleasantly surprised to see "The Winter Beach" and "New Celebrations" and a whole load of UK Leguin and Kage Baker titles, along with the usual questionable, small-press titles we read before Bezos finally made the market work the 2nd time.** On a Nexus 7, the thing even works quickly. I'll have to explore a bit more. I'd commend any former users who abandoned Nook to give it another look. Regards, Jack Tingle To this day, my copy won't work properly. The text is eternally fixed in "tiny and unreadable" size. And yes, I've tried it on several devices. * I got burned (in a tiny way) when Amazon abandoned its .lit store. Too bad, since MS Reader is still one of my favorite readers.