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Originally Posted by AnitainTN
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Well...not exactly. I did visit BB and left with a new toy and a bruised pocketbook...set it up, loaded Nook App, and went to BN for a celebratory latte...and paranoid (free) book check (since any account perturbations have been known to re-set the Alf key). (Calibre slurped it right up.)
Read In Store has become
Free Sample on everything.
I must have checked close to 20 books. Sigh. It's not all that big a deal for what I want (mostly). I can still read a number of pages, see the 1st cover, decide if I like that book or not. Downsides:
1) I buy a lot of backlist books as part of ongoing migration of a big DTB library to ebooks. So, I look at a lot of omnibus editions. Sometimes, if I like the covers enough, I'll get the individual books if the covers are not all included in the omnibus. Well, ok, it only happened once. But still. Samples will never include that much of the book.
2) Dratted samples! They install into my account (thumbnail on all devices whether downloaded or not), and the only way to get rid of the fool thing is to go to the online BN account and delete there. Which is a pain, and disincentive to looking at borderline books more closely....RIS just neatly disappeared when I closed them. **Sigh**
3) For the bench warmers - the bench won't have much time to get warm. If one needs to closely watch the budget and truly Read in the Store - get a BN device.
That said....Oh, joy, loading a whole year's worth of magazines! Full library with a few clicks (via CC)! No limit (well, anytime soon)....Happy camper.
And, yes, the screen really looks great - the photos pop. Very nice.
P.S. I did buy the cover from BN. The BN cover has a Portrait stand built in (for reading books); BB cover's stand is Landscape (for...well, other stuff). The BN cover is also a nicer color and less expensive.