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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Concerning your 2 momentary favorites:
Your choice is very interesting, because nook and Neo are very different. I'd perfectly understand deciding between Neo and iRex 800 or nook and Kindle 2 for example.
In general, my differentiation between Neo and nook:
nook ist the "perfect" casual reader. It looks great. 6" for casual reads is absolutely fine. The touchscreen is a looker and fun to use. I love WiFi and 3G to browse the B&N bookstore while on the road. I almost exclusively use nook for the B&N books. For sideloading books from 3rd party sources, in my opinion there are better solutions in the market. For example I prefer iRex 800 for that (huge libraries way better can be sorted in folder view on iRex 800, than on nook's "flat" structure).
BeBook Neo to me still is a mixed package. Its featureset is impressive and for its price it's benchmark. But I haven't found the right niche, yet. For casual reads, I prefer nook. For "professional" documents, I still miss some features on iRex 800, but I trust in the firmware update due in 4 weeks.
If you give a few examples of typical usage you plan (3G important or not, downloading books while on the road, annotation capability, touchscreen interface or not, ...), I can give you my personal recommendation.
Without knowing your criterias, my "blind" recommendations always will be (for now): Sony 900, iRex 800, Kindle 2, nook, BeBook Neo, Cybook Opus (no specific order).
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I’m considering Nook solely because it’s pretty. I figured even if it is annoying occasionally, I can still look at it and smile because it’s pretty.
Neo, I can live with the design and I heard the features are great.
I have an irrational dislike for Kindle, so no Kindle.
I want it for reading fiction books, format mostly lits, some pdfs and htmls. Dictionary is nice to have but not a must. Ease of use, bookmarking, recently read etc. No crashing, sudden reboots, etc.
I’m looking at 6” device, paperback size. Sony and Irex are bit too big for me I think.
3G, wifi, annotation and other feature not really important. I will mostly be downloading books to my laptop and then to the device.
Another question, do any of the device comes with a wall charger, coz most of them I see only comes with a usb which you need to stick to your computer to charge.