Just saw Barns and Nobles is debuting their Nook by next month, to compete with Amazon's Kindle of course. The price is set to be the same as $259. I wonder if Amazon dropped the price because they knew Nook is coming out with that price, or B&N followed the new price instead.
Look at the comparison chart, I like the followings about Nook :
1. it's got the iPhone touch, the color touch and control navigation at the bottom. Browse through books by its cover is cool.
2. It can read PDF (Kindle can do that only on the upgraded version, which costs much more)
3. It allows extending memory though micro SD card, which is always a good thing, especially when you can play mp3 as well.
4. You can lend ebooks to friends for 10 days, ha! This is an interesting idea.
5. It says it beats Amazon in terms of ebooks available (more than a million), I am surprised.
6. More than 500,000 free ebooks. This is nice too, I don't expect them to be any new top seller, however, a lot of old or classic novels are great bonus.
I am surpised by #5 and #6, since I buy books mostly from Amazon, and would assume they will surely beat B&N in terms of content available. Perhaps content can not be solely measured by numbers either. Looks like Nook is little bit smaller to carry as well (a little bit thicker though), I actually prefer it this way.
I suspect how comfy it is to read ebooks on a 6" diagonal screen, and I do like the feel of papers, so even though Kindle has been there for a long while, I never bothered to look into it much. (Plus it's not cheap.) Recently it caught my attention more as I learned it can 'read' books to you as well. That is a BIG plus to me. I work in front of computer all day long and by the time I get home, my eyes are usually tired already. Being able to listen to a book is much appealing than read it. For this reason, the screen size is not important anymore.
One last thing nice about Nook is you can try it out at local B&N store, heh. So far it looks like Nook is beating Kindle with its features. I am not sure if ebooks are more expensive than Amazon though, as most of the regular books at B&N are :(
Perhaps someone will offer a better Noodle = Nook + Kindle ?
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4 comments:
I thought about an e-book reader until I realized the book prices were just a buck or two less than the paper versions. That doesn't make any sense to me so I choose not to support that business model and heavily use the library instead.
yeah, I noticed that too. But I am mainly considering the ability of audio books so that I can listen and rest my eyes. It is a high premium to pay to get that ability though, and I have yet to do more search on what's available yet. I heard mostly it's for top selling novels, which I am not into.
Libraries? I like libraries, but I mainly don't feel comfortable to think about how many people have touched the books and who knows what they were doing. Haven't you seen people reading in the bathroom often? heh.
You can download free Kindle for PC to check it out. Here is the link: Kindle for PC. You can also find out lots of free Kindle books. For example, try the bestseller section...
sounds cool, I will try it out, thanks Houpu :)
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