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Caoilin 
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Subject: wow major price drop on the nook
seriously wifi only $149 and wifi + 3g is only $200 now. that's a HUGE price drop. i know the kindle is still cheaper with 3g but i've honestly not found the 3g thing all that useful. i've never been somewhere w/o free wifi when i wanted to buy a book.

 

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Not a bad price. But I still say that the upcoming wave of tablet PCs (not just the iPad) will make readers rather superfluous. Especially when they've been out for a while and tablet prices have dropped to comparable levels.

 

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no doubt. ebook readers will have to become cheap as hell to compete.

 

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I could never sit and read regularly off of a tablet PC. If I wanted to read from a glowing screen I would have been using my computer all this time.

Also, I bought one of the stupid things less than a month before the price drop.

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right now the only real competition i see is with the notion ink tablet, since it has backlight mode and ebook mode.

 

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That might be interesting.

Personally, I have no use for a tablet PC. I think smart phones are worthless accessories for 95% of the people who own them and a tablet PC is even more useless. I have always been a proponent of simplistic electronics that do one thing well and don't waste time on gadgets (burn in hell Sony) so I think I would spend $200 on a Nook before I would spend $200 on a tablet PC.

I recognize that most people lack my clarity of purpose placing me in the minority. Also, the fact that I read, on average, six hours a day probably places me in an even smaller e-book loving minority.

 

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As a smart phone and a tablet owner I'd have to say that I would have agreed with Yos a few years ago, but after using both of them for a while now, they're just too handy to give up.  There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of uses for these things that even I as a gadget addict didn't foresee.  I only bought them because...hey cool, a gadget.     

The smart phone proved invaluable on my vacation with it's GPS and navigation and I stored audio books on it that, when hooked to the car radio, made the 17 hour drive a snap.  The simple games are great time wasters. I could go on and on.

The iPad (yes I own one....temporarily until the Notion Ink comes out) I use in ways that I didn't intend and don't use in ways that I did intend.  I read books on it, but I also have forsaken the net on my desktop in favor of the iPad to read news.  It's just more easy and comfortable to sit on the couch flipping through the wall street journal (for free), bloomberg, USA today, etc.  I play shooters that actually are up to snuff with games that came out in 2003 or so and Diablo like RPGs with better graphics than Diablo 2.  And, oddly enough, I take notes and put todo lists on it when I never intended to and never have done todo lists before.The biggest thing though is I put my collection of software development PDFs on there (in various languages) and set the iPad next to the computer while I work so that now I don't have to alt+tab between the books and the IDE.

The screen only becomes hard to read in noon day light.  It's a drag, yeah, but it hasn't happened enough to be annoying yet.

*edit* It also does nook format, kindle format, ibook format, pdf format, and a few others. So i can read more books on it with less effort (no need to convert).

 

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he said for most people, not all people. tongue if someone like me had a tablet, the tablet would get used. i use my blackberry constantly when i'm not at home. i can't wait to dump it for an android phone though. that'll be my next purchase.

nook format is epub. it's a totally open format that's not at all exclusive to the nook. clearly a computer can read it. tongue

 

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The Kindle dropped to $149 for 1 day on woot.com and they were sold out in a few hours. They had 5000 units

 

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