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nigelquest · 01-14-2010, 08:53 AM

I bought a Kindle 2 a few weeks ago and was lucky enough to pick up a nook yesterday to compare. I definitely like the way the nook looks and feels better. However, the Kindle is still substantially faster and has much better battery life.

I would consider keeping the kindle hoping the battery life and speed will be improved in future firmware updates, but there is one issue I just cant get past. Whenever I switch back and forth between books the kindle randomly decides to do its formatting thing. This can take from 15 seconds to 2 minutes depending on the book. This is all on books Ive already started reading. I can understand it doing it the first time you open a book, but 50% or more of the time is annoying. This happens on downloaded books from B&N and from books I have converted to epub with Calibre. The demo unit in the store had the same issue as well.

Does anyone know a workaround or how to fix this or do you all experience this and just live with it. I wont be able to. The form factor is nice, but I consider this a serious defect that makes it not worth it. Thanks for any advice!

01-14-2010, 08:53 AM	#1
nigelquest Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: kindle 2 & nook	"Formatting Issue" with Nook. How to resolve or it goes back I bought a Kindle 2 a few weeks ago and was lucky enough to pick up a nook yesterday to compare. I definitely like the way the nook looks and feels better. However, the Kindle is still substantially faster and has much better battery life. I would consider keeping the kindle hoping the battery life and speed will be improved in future firmware updates, but there is one issue I just cant get past. Whenever I switch back and forth between books the kindle randomly decides to do its formatting thing. This can take from 15 seconds to 2 minutes depending on the book. This is all on books Ive already started reading. I can understand it doing it the first time you open a book, but 50% or more of the time is annoying. This happens on downloaded books from B&N and from books I have converted to epub with Calibre. The demo unit in the store had the same issue as well. Does anyone know a workaround or how to fix this or do you all experience this and just live with it. I wont be able to. The form factor is nice, but I consider this a serious defect that makes it not worth it. Thanks for any advice!