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Originally Posted by stangri
Everybody else seems to be doing fine with swipes. So either you need to send it back for repair or it's your problem, not nook's.
Excuse me? There's a huge progress -- Amazon made the first connected reader with the great 'from the unit' buying experience and major manufacturers followed. B&N made the first wifi-connected nook based on OS system (tho they're lagging behind on releasing the sources, that's why we don't have openvpn running on nook yet). Amazon went ahead with the Kindle SDK bringing ability to run apps on their readers too. You being in Germany may not be able to use the fruits of this progress, it's progress nonetheless. Not to mention dictionaries, note-taking, moving towards a standard for ebooks publishing, etc. It's like saying there's no progress in desktop OS since Windows 3.0.
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Which readers have you been using and since when?
Vast majority of the features you describe has been available on iRex iLiad since summer of 2007:
Downloading books via WiFi, installing 3rd party apps, SDK being available, dictionary support, note taking, "intelligent" zoom.
Back then, this was great. (Even though most of the features already had been available on PocketPCs since 2000. But eInk of course has been a huge improvement).
But if we compare, let's say, iRex iLiad's functionality to any of the actual readers, they even fall behind.
On iLiad, I've been able to change book title or author's name. I easily could add comments or thumbnails. And now? Aiming for the $ 250 mark is the goal, not improving features.
Just look at the build quality. Check out the features. Usability may have improved for the "casual reader", I agree. But for the "hardcore users", it's stagnation for some time now.
But of course I agree: Amazon's business model is brilliant.