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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I just got a Nook, and I'm underwhelmed. Before I give my opinion, I'd like to hear from some of the people who have the Nook as well as another reader. What do you think of the Nook?
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Nate, I hear you.
Similar feelings for me. But to me, it's
not nook specific.
I just recognise, that I'm
starting to get bored by the various eInk readers alltogether. There simply is
no progress anymore.
One you've seen 3 or 4 readers, it's repeating itself. iRex iLiad and Sony 505 in my opinion
more than 2 years ago have been phantastic. But after that...kind of stagnation.
nook certainly has a great display. But so did Sony 505 - already years ago.
nook's touchscreen definitely is a looker. But is the swipe gesture any more convenient than the gesture on Sony 700 - again, 15 months ago already?
And nook's cover flow of course looks nice - color on an eInk device, cool. But does it help any more than Cybook Opus' thumbnail view?
On the other hand, you've mentioned it: nook doesn't have landscape view. nook doesn't have zoom.
I don't want to criticise nook. It's still a great unit. But I simply don't see anything new for more than 18 months now. Even more the opposite.
Getting cheaper seems to be the target, not getting more advanced.
(Argh - the build quality of most units - yikes....horrible...)
And that's surely a reason, why Apple's iPad might be considered a milestone by some. eInk would have so much potential, but obviously the innovative genius like Steve jobs is missing here.
Personally, I'm very close to end my excursion with eInk alltogether and find something new. (I'll definitely buy the iPad, but I don't think that's it.)