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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
The PB 360 is capable of 16 shades. Its uses 16 for showing images. It only uses 4 for text.
The 5 inch display has a higher DPI than the 6" so text is clearer on the 360 than on the Nook.
Nooks wifi will allow you to connect with the B&N store through your wifi at home or from any ATT hotspot. It also allows you to read books while in a B&N store. I believe its hacked to allow some browsing but I am not current on the state of the hacks.
PB 360 has wider format support, wider language support and better firmware. The user community is also making it better all the time. Its also smaller, with that nifty cover that makes it easy to carry with you.
B&N's epub has its own drm flavor. You have to buy drm'd books from them.
PocketBook supports standard Adobe DRM which allows you a much greater choice of bookstores when buying DRM'd epub format.
The nook wifi is 328grams
PocketBook 360 is 180grams
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The Nooks wi fi allows you to not only be able to shop and dowload wirelessly on BN website but to also browse the web. I find websites mobile versions works best.
The Nook supports Adobe DRM, e-Pub and not just BN's Drm e-pub, you can shop anywhere that sells e-Pub including local library's.
So No you are not limited to have to only buy books from Barnes and Noble. You can shop where ever you like that supports ePub
It supports open e-Pub
here are the formats it supports
From Barnes & Noble,
Fictionwise & eReader
EPUB
PDB
PDF
Other Sources
EPUB (Non or Adobe DRM)
PDB (Non DRM)
PDF
Graphics: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
Audio: MP3
Also with the Nook you can download books from BN wirelessly, no hooking up you device to the computer all the times.
It's very nice when, even when you are at home. Just to sit there shop, buy and done.