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Originally Posted by kennyc
Was your nook delivered/shipped on November 30 as originally stated. That was true, right?
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I got mine around noon on December 2nd (was upgraded to overnight shipping for free). I know other people had theirs delivered on 1st. So it was delayed by 1-2 days (which as already been noted has been announced beforehand) -- big deal. I'm sure we both had much worse experience with other online orders fulfillment.
Gotcha about the "lack of information" -- yeah, the lending feature, in-store access and furthest read point sync between readers under same account are sort of WIP. Besides Kindle which does offer sync, all these features are equally unavailable with competing devices, so I don't see how nook is at loss here.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Right as long as you are happy with the books they offer, you're set. If you are more interested in the industry coming together in a common format to benefit consumers then...  |
Well, wherever we like it or not, looks like ePub is what it will all come down to. The fact that B&N DRMed their ePub is something we all will have to live with. After all, most of the media distributed online is DRMed, at least initially.
nook reads user-generated non-DRMed ePubs just fine tho, and afaik reads ePubs sold by other sites just as well.
Oh and you can read international epub/pdf files with no major problems right OOB -- did the Kindle do that in first incarnation? As far as I remember it had to be hacked to support russian. It's just that people who read tend to know a few languages so it might be important.
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Originally Posted by jcar302
On a bright note, looks like they already hacked facebook and twitter onto the nook.
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Well, yes and no -- you still need the computer nearby to launch the apps and you need to disable the module which allows you to control WiFi from the nook UI, so technically it's possible but it's not really useable yet. But as the first step it's very promising.