Kindle Electronic Reader vs Nook?

[SlowButSteady]

I'm considering getting an electronic reader.

Amazon has the Kindle 2.

Barnes and Noble is about to release the Nook, which I think is an upgraded Sony electronic reader.

I have looked at a feature comparisom. I like the Nook's color touch screen feature.

However, Kindle 2 is an upgraded product, possibly with some of the "bugs" worked out of it over the original incarnation(s).

No one has a Nook yet to review it...but isn't it another incarnation of a Sony product?

I hope this hasn't been discussed before. I used the Search feature but didn't uncover anything.

[Pedal Wench]

This is the website I write for:
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/barnes-noble-un.php

and

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/barnes-noble-un.php

[TsPoet]

The other thing to look is is how available the books are. Can you read a Kindle book on a Nook and visa-versa?
Regardless of how good/bad the Nook is, there are a lot of book out there for the kindle and they are easy to get.
Then again, if the Nook is behind on books (and I'm asking, not saying that it is), it will catch up in a year or two.

[Zen]

I like the device known as the library.

It's free

[papaver]

I love my books, I've got hundreds of them...

Imagine you have that Klindle thing, you read a book you really love... in 15 years time you remember that book and you want to read it again... do you honestly think it will be possible after the x-million upgrades of the software?

My books don't need upgrading... just a little dusting from time to time.


But that's just me, i'm really really a book lover. Love reading them, looking at them, touching them...

[MartianDestiny]

I think I'd have about the same chance of having a book after 15 years and God only knows how many moves, etc. on a Nook as in hardcopy.

Grant if I really *love* it and want to keep it forever and ever, then I'd probably buy a hardcopy (more for display purposes than fear of the digital copy vanishing). The vast majority of my books aren't that special to me (but I still have a HUGE collection that is), however, and they get discarded, given to friends, sold, etc as I move around whereas I might have kept them and even read them again if they were on a harddrive. Physical books are expensive, heavy, and bulky to ship around the country.

Just saying that both options have their drawbacks and I don't think either will replace the other.

Having just reviewed the Nook's specs on the website I will most likely be buying one when they come out. Just the fact that it will natively store, organize, search, and allow me to mark up PDFs for my research is worth more to me than the asking price. I'm tired of printing off 30 page papers only to have a very poor organization (and FORGET trying to remember what quote was in what paper a year or even a month later) especially when I know I should be keeping up with all of it.

The newspaper and periodical reading feature is also very nice. No one wants to keep those forever excepting maybe an article or two (which you could print or store) and the paper savings from reading them digitally could be enormous.

Maybe I'll even grab a book or two that I otherwise wouldn't have purchased too, maybe not.

[jobob]

I like the device known as the library.

It's free

Knew you'd chime in with that.

[papaver]

Like I said, i'm a maniac when it comes to books.

But one serious piece of advice though. I would never buy the first model of anything new. I would at least wait six months before I buy a 'gadget' so they get the chance to optimize it.

[Ritamarie]

I like the device known as the library.

It's free

Me too. When the library goes digital and I can download a book to an electronic reader, then I will buy one!

[7rider]

Me too. When the library goes digital and I can download a book to an electronic reader, then I will buy one!

The library did go digital*. And you can down load it onto a reader. Looks like you'll have to get one now! Actually, Google Books has a bunch of books that are in the public domain and available free for download. A good time to catch up on Poe, Twain, and all of the old classics that I never read (but told my lit. teachers I did!) in high school!

* Besides, you can't take the library with you when you're stuck in an airport waiting for your connection.....