[WT Sharpe]

Kindle.

The Kindle makes it easy to annotate and highlight, and moving those notes to your computer is easy. Note-taking and high-lighting is a pain in the butt on a Nook, and after two firmware updates there's still no way to upload those notes you do make to a PC. Getting around on the Kindle is a breeze. Navigation on the Nook is tedious. The Kindle's keyboard is always there when you need it. Calling up the Nook's virtual keyboard is time-consuming. The dictionary on the Kindle is fast and easy to use; simply move the cursor to the word you wish to look up and a brief definition appears at the bottom of the screen. Hitting the return key opens a more in-depth definition. To look up a word on the Nook, you must first wake up the lower screen, then navigate through the screen options until you come to the one for looking up definitions, then go through the Nook's painfully slow navigation process until you get to the word you desire. By that time, if you still remember which word it was you wished to know the meaning of when you began the process, the Nook will tell you.

Now, if all you plan to do is read books straight through from beginning to end, never switch between books you are currently reading, never annotate, never underline, never search through the text, and never look up words in the dictionary, one is pretty much as good as the other.