Wednesday
09Dec2009
Kindle v. nook
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 2:03PM 
Engadget posted a great review of the new Barnes & Noble nook and I've posted my own thoughts below as contrasted with Amazon's Kindle below.
my thoughts:
- you can physically look at a nook (sounds like a Dr Seuss rhyme) before buying
- nook has a cool color touch screen and virtual keyboard, people say iPhone users really dig this
- B&N has free in-store WiFi for nook users, will allow you to look at an ENTIRE book on your device for free while in store. Imagine sitting there with a cup of coffee, chilling and reading anything in the store (that's available in ebook format) without getting up!
- Nook allows you to lend a book to a friend (I understand this only works once per book however)
- Nook is based on android open-source operating system so presumably people will start writing cool apps for it
- music player in it is way better than Kindle with more controls, features
- apparently you'll be able to check out library books on nook
- MOST IMPORTANTLY, nook supports a wider variety of ebook formats and you're not necessarily locked in to buying books only from B&N, whereas Kindle is locked to Amazon (for the time being)
a few downsides to nook
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