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B&N Nook drops to 199, 1.4 Firmware goes live

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gorcorps said:
as a bookstore B&N seems to offer more books to buy as well as offering free ones as well.
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I'd go with the nook too, but the B&N ebook selection is far behind Amazon's. B&N has the better device at the better price, but Amazon has a much better ebook selection.
 
gorcorps said:
If you don't care for 3G support then it seems a pretty obvious choice to me. Nook is $40 cheaper for the same size screen and as a bookstore B&N seems to offer more books to buy as well as offering free ones as well.
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I just wish the ebooks at B&N were as cheap as the ones on Amazon. And then there's the limited B&N selection...
 
However, the PDF functionality of the Nook seems very robust for those who, ummm... have lots of ebooks from other places. :sneaky:
 
Bateluer said:
This will be very useful. Not that I intend to steal any .amz books, but there are some books on the Kindle but not on nook that I'd like to have, some oddball ones.
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Yeah... Amazon has apparently been pretty intent on making sure all programs that remove their DRM get pulled, so it may be harder to find than I thought. I wish they wouldn't even use it. I understand they want people to use their e-reader but at the same time they're probably missing out on sales because people who have other e-readers can't use their books. Kind of odd how their mp3 store really pushed how DRM free it is when their book store is exactly the opposite 🙄

Anyways, I'm probably going to order the wifi Nook tomorrow. Even if I don't use it a ton immediately, it will get plenty of use when school starts back up.
 
All e-ink devices read like paper. So you shouldn't run into issues. Though if you're going to beaches, etc, I would suggest getting a waterproof case for it if it exists. I know there are some for the Kindle.
 
Kev said:
how is the outdoor reading on these things? I plan on doing a lot of beach reading
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Same as reading in doors, except you're outside. E-ink really looks just like printed paper. Just keep your reader away from the sand. 😛
 
Bateluer said:
I'd go with the nook too, but the B&N ebook selection is far behind Amazon's. B&N has the better device at the better price, but Amazon has a much better ebook selection.
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Ummmm BN has roughly 500K ebooks to Amazon's 380K. Plus the Nook works easily with the public library. The Nook has the ebook selection advantage.
 
gar655 said:
Ummmm BN has roughly 500K ebooks to Amazon's 380K. Plus the Nook works easily with the public library. The Nook has the ebook selection advantage.
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Must be my tastes in books then because Amazon seems to have many more books with Kindle options than B&N does with nook options.
 
Bateluer said:
Must be my tastes in books then because Amazon seems to have many more books with Kindle options than B&N does with nook options.
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It's not just you. As an example, The Gathering Storm by Sanderson/Jordan is available on Amazon for Kindle, but not at B&N for Nook.

but I can just buy it, strip the DRM, change to PDF and put it on Nook. So no big deal.
 
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Who's gotten a Nook? What do you think about it? I have one loaded in my shopping cart and I'm still waffling.
 
MagickMan said:
It's not just you. As an example, The Gathering Storm by Sanderson/Jordan is available on Amazon for Kindle, but not at B&N for Nook.

but I can just buy it, strip the DRM, change to PDF and put it on Nook. So no big deal.
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Kindle for Android is coming. Could you root the Nook and install the Kindle app when it comes out?
 
gar655 said:
Ummmm BN has roughly 500K ebooks to Amazon's 380K. Plus the Nook works easily with the public library. The Nook has the ebook selection advantage.
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I was on Amazon earlier and they now say they have over 600k Kindle titles. The Nook has the edge with being able to read the Google epub and other drm free epub books, but B&N's epub drm and Apples' iBooks drm (and others who use epub with drm) are not cross compatible.
 
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