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Oct 21
2009
11:50 AM ET
Barnes & Noble's new reader lets you lend e-books
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The Nook has both WiFi AND wireless. The Kindle has only wireless. I see Amazon quit selling the Kindle 2 and dropped the price on the DX. I would love to get the Barnes and Noble reader. Maybe I can get one for Christmas.
The Nook does have both Wifi and wireless, but no internet browsing. you can’t even see wikipedia. All that wireless does for you is enable you to download books faster. Since it’s already only around 1 min to download a book on the Kindle the Nook’s wifi is wasted. In future versions, once they get a browser on the Nook this will be a nice feature.
I bought a second-generation Kindle earlier this year and love it. I have the beginnings of cataracts in both eyes and love to be able to adjust the type size. It makes it so much easier to read. Prior to getting the Kindle I don’t think I read more than 2 or 3 books in the previous couple of years. Now I’ve read two dozen books since April. Granted, e-books aren’t for everyone … but it’s brought back the joy of reading to me.
I had a Kindle (2nd gen) and liked it (not love but like). I accidentally knocked it off a ottoman which broke the display. I received this as a gift and unfortunately was not given the insurance plan. Amazon offers a repair policy that pretty much is buy a new one (it was $200 and a new one was $250) so I put it in a drawer and went back to books. Anyone that buys one, get the protection plan and be very careful with them. They are much more fragile than I would ever expected. Thank goodness my iPhone is much more durable!
If the Nook is $250, and the average new release or best seller will be $9.99 a piece, that’s an awful expensive read. I can get the same book in paperback for less than 6 bucks! E-books are probably great for some (heavy travelers or deployed soldiers), but honestly, for the average reader, those are some expensive titles! Personally, I see e-books more as replacing education and research materials like encyclopedias, or school texts over fiction novels and children books.
Yes, but if you read a lot of “classics” that are in the public domain, they can be downloaded for free…pretty much the only reason I want one.
I will purchase kindle2 or nook for Christmas for myself, but….am having trouble deciding which one?? The kindle has proven itself, but not nook, so help!!
As someone else mentioned, these are just SO prohibitively expensive. I really want one, but I just can’t afford it. I hope they come WAY down in price soon! (Not holding my breath, though)
I remember the feeling of holding the brand new Harry Potter books in my hands, hugging the book, looking at every part of the cover. I feel that way whenever I read a new book by a favorite author and a computer isn’t going to be able to replace that. As long as there are libraries, I will be getting most of my books free from there.
I like the idea, but I’m just such a huge library fan that it wouldn’t work for me. I originally stopped buying books because I live in NYC and literally don’t have room to keep physical bookselves of books. Then, once I started using NYC’s online public library, I realized it’s like Netflix for books, only it’s free. You can’t beat that!
Any news on availability of one of these devices coming to Canada? It is completely unfair to keep such a wonderful thing to yourself, America!
Amazon has an international version of the Kindle2
Yes, it works in many countries, but not Canada!! My hopes were dashed when I first heard about it, then read the fine print. Amazon says they’re still working on it.
I love books – have over 3,000 but I will wind up with one of these devices because I travel a lot and read a great deal so this would be a godsend for those purposes.
I never buy anything that just hits the market – after having been burned buying the very first version of the IMAC which had a ton of problems that were fixed in the follow-up version.
Also – I’m guessing the price of these things are going to come down to earth in the near future as now there is competition with more than one company making them and probably more on the way.
I will never, however, buy a Kindle as Amazon’s deleting a book from everyone’s Kindle was appalling and even with all the apologies, etc I do not want to give my company to a place that has that mindset. They apologized only because of the outcry from buyers and the media – not because they knew it was a despicable thing to do.
I wonder too if the prices of the books will come down – given that they are virtual and there is no tangible costs related to paper, printing, shipping, etc.
For now, I think I will wait a year. I’ve lived my whole life without it, I think I can wait another year to see what’s on the market by then.
This is getting closer to an item I could get behind – my biggest issue is the “nosy” component. I love being on a bus, train or by the pool and seeing what people are reading – sometimes it starts a conversation or just sparks my interest in something I hadn’t discovered. If there was a window on the back to show the book “cover” that would be the clincher!
I hope the screen in sturdier than on the kindle, I broke mine after 3 weeks and had to send it to a third party kindle repair service to get it fixed http://www.portatronics.com/index.php?cat=c87_Ebook-Readers.html. I think they should make those ebook devices more ruggedized, since they’re intended lugged around and prone to be in bags with other stuff or exposed to water.
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Теперь стало всё ясно, большое спасибо за информацию. Вы мне очень помогли.
Два дня мучаюсь. Теперь ок, спасибо.