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IMO it's worse. The Nook UI is much slower than the modern Kindle UI, and it has even fewer customization options (at least Kindles can have custom fonts, you can use the font_ramp for custom font sizes and you can lose the header/footer, none of which are possible on Nooks. And you can set the full refresh for every page - again, you can't on a Nook).
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I know there's a lot of things Kindles can do that Nook can't (X-Ray, Goodreads integration). But for me, those things are unimportant. Both Kindle and Nook are a pain with collections and series. Nook has better line heights and margins. Kindle is better at fonts in that you can add your own and there are more sizes, and has a better dictionary. Nook isn't such a pain in the butt with covers. I prefer the way the device library looks on the Nook (I view both sorted by author). |
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The 2019 Nook had a very good, evenly lit screen as well. But the lack of the option to refresh every page made it almost unusable for me. The contrast gets just so bad after several partial refreshes that I no longer want to read. I need a full refresh for every page.
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I got a Nook Glowlight 4 not long ago (B&N sent me a $30 off coupon out of the blue so I figured why not) and while I never used earlier Nook hardware, it seems pretty peppy. Certainly no slower than my Inkbook Focus and quite noticeably faster than the Pocketbook InkPad 3 that I sold to justify buying the Nook. 😁
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Anyway, to make a poor situation worse, at some point my Nook had an update which lessened the contrast considerably. The previously black text was dark grey after that, even after a full refresh. I read that B&N was supposed to have fixed it with the next update, but for some reason none of the subsequent updates fixed the issue on mine. I restarted, reset, tried to update again and whatnot, but no luck. The contrast remained poor, not like it was in the beginning. It bothered me so much that I sold my Nook and swore to never get another. |
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