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And, why did I not do this sooner? Awesome device, I was worried about the smaller screen than say the kindle DX (Even though it's half the price). But in the end Barnes & Noble's book selection made the decision for me. My only complaint is that the sleep mode always has a picture on it, other than that, amazing device.
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Just curious whats the difference between barnes and nobles book selection and the kindle? Kindle has a pretty big selection.
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Just curious whats the difference between barnes and nobles book selection and the kindle? Kindle has a pretty big selection.
My mother tried the kindle for 30 days, and returned it in favor of the iPad. (Easier for her to read, not so much for me I prefer the e-ink screen, but I digress). When I searched for books on the kindle I seemed to have a harder time finding one which suited me, it may have been something that would not affect anyone else but myself, but I personally seem to find more books which I'm looking for on Barnes and Noble's website than amazon.com.
From a numbers standpoint, from each of the companies respectfully, I believe amazon.com says they have 650,000 or so eBooks, and Barnes and Noble says about 1.1 million.
Again, this is what I noticed from searching both sites, others may not have an issue with it. From a device standpoint, I really liked both. The touchscreen is a nice touch though lol.
Another major factor in propelling the nook over the Amazon for me is that I work for Best Buy, and the nook is carried at Best Buy. So I can now talk about, and sell the nook from a personal standpoint.
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Ah I have never really noticed to many books missing from amazon on my kindle. I tried a nook in a store and did not like it for whatever reason prob just cause I was used to the kindle. Getting a kindle 3 here in a few weeks
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The more I think about, the more I realize the possible future selling of the product played alot into my decision. If I didn't work somewhere which sold the nook, I probably would have gotten the DX, or 3 simply because I had physically used it before.
So what's new witht the Kindle 3? I haven't heard much about it.
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Wargasam posted:
Just curious whats the difference between barnes and nobles book selection and the kindle? Kindle has a pretty big selection.
kindle has a better store. don't let bn fool you on that. they might have more books because they offer google books as well, but for buying books that are things people actually want to read, amazon wins hands down. that said, the nook is a far better piece of hardware. i like that it doesn't use a proprietary format like amazon does. the only books i've downloaded that were crappy scanned images of the books were ones from google books, whereas i've bought kindle books from amazon and had them basically be a scanned page saved as an image. thankfully i was able to return it.
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Every time I see some poor fool with a Kindle I laugh at their ugly device and it's ridiculous keyboard.
The Kindle 3 is basically a too little too late attempt to steal the better ideas from the other readers and it still falls short in my opinion.
I think the Sony Daily Edition is the first reader to really compete with the Nook but I am still happier with the Nook.
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Every time I see some poor fool with a Kindle I laugh at their ugly device and it's ridiculous keyboard.
The Kindle 3 is basically a too little too late attempt to steal the better ideas from the other readers and it still falls short in my opinion.
I think the Sony Daily Edition is the first reader to really compete with the Nook but I am still happier with the Nook.
What the heck are you using it for? I still have my first gen kindle and i have never used the keyboard for anything other then buying things from amazon. I bought it with the intent to be a e-reader and I could not be happier. I do not expect it to do anything else. I am going to get the wifi only version of the kindle 3, and expect to be very happy with it. If I wanted something that did a bunch of stuff I would get a tablet.
The big things I look for in a e-reader
1. The screen... kindle 3 new screen is the main reason for my upgrade from the kindle 1... the e-ink screen is much better on the kindle 3.
2. The book selection and ease of managing my library... Kindle has great features for that. Note that I have never tried to get a e-book anywhere but the kindle store
3. The comfort of reading with the item. I loved my kindle 1 for reading.... I expect the same from the kindle 3.
Anyway, I am sure there are a ton of devices out there that do more. Someone should post some of the other e-readers besides nook and kindle maybe I will check those out.
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i have never used the keyboard
EXACTLY. Half the device is a keyboard and its bloody useless. Such an ugly device.
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Someone should post some of the other e-readers besides nook and kindle maybe I will check those out.
Sony Daily Edition.
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yeah the kindle keyboard is what turned me off of it and onto the nook initially. i'm crazy happy with my nook. i just wish it had the amazon store because it's cheaper and they seem to get ebooks way faster than bn. of course i rarely buy books atm because i'm reading all the books i own phsyical copies of and refuse to rebuy.
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You could try a Kobo
http://www.kobobooks.com
Its just a basic eBook, no bells or whistles. 
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hmm my dad ordered a new kindle. i'm gonna play with it when he gets it.
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I'm personally looking into getting an Ebook Reader eventually. Mainly because I think this would help my mother with her reading. She has bad right shoulder problems and has difficulty reading hardcovers, of which many of my books are right now. As such, I think one of these might do her justice since it would relieve the stress of holding a hardcover does to her right shoulder.
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I know I'm looking at getting a Nook for books I read when I'm not at home. I was going to get one recently until I learned that a new one is supposedly coming out in December, so figured I'd just wait for the next model.
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oh my god i hate the kindle store on the kindle. it SUCKS compared to the bn store on the nook. (on the pc it's all irrelevant.)
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I over-clocked my Nook today.
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Lol, Best Buy just cornered the retail market for ereaders, they now carry the Kindle, Nook, Sony Daily Edition, and the iPad. I have the nook and iPad now, prefer reading on the nook but I tend to have the iPad eith me more. Anyways, speaking from having a nook, and playing around with a kindle before that, i think it really is just personal preference. The keyboard is ugly on tne kindle but if it works for you, go for it.
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I over-clocked my Nook today.
You can go ahead and write your essays on who you admire most about me.
do pages turn faster now? i'm considering hacking mine since it's an android os. and by hacking i mean seeing if the homebrew community hasn't found a way to make it run better than bn does.
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Really, I didn't notice any difference. With firmware 1.4 the pages turn as fast as I want them too.
Also, it might not be a good idea to overclock them because supposedly B&N is cracking down on it. None of the new ones can be rooted and the 1.4.1 firmware screws up the method I used.
I've already reset mine back to normal since I didn't notice any great difference.
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i enjoy sticking it to the man by rooting my devices though. 
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Ok, so I bought a nook. Was a total impulse buy and I'm not sure if I like it so far. The first two things I looked for were not available on B&N site (Popular fantasy books from the 80's...), but are available from the Amazon site.
Cao, did you find a way to convert kindle stuffs to nook stuffs?
*edit* The books I looked for are the first book of the Belgariad, by Eddings and Magician, by Feist. Seriously? These two staple fantasy books aren't available for the nook? Bleh.
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yep. as long as it's not a topaz format book you can convert easy as hell care of kindle for windows.
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Does it annoy anyone else how BN has set up their ebook site in regards to the free google books? Click a subject - Sometimes a sub-category - sort by price. There should just be a category for the free Google books by themselves. The only reason that I can see for them not to have one is the hope that people will impulse buy books while they're searching for the free ones.
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they're always at the top of the list when i sort by price on my nook. like all of the books on google books are really old obscure things though so it's rare to have them come up unless you're specifically looking for old crap. it's really good for mythology and stuff like that.
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Mythology and Classics. Sherlock Holmes stories for instance.
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