Ordering a Nook this week?

[Irulan]

I think Santa is bringing me one... ( crosses fingers)

[SadieKate]

The Tablet?

I would have been except I won a Kindle last week at my company's holiday luncheon. Since I live in a sales taxless state, I trotted it right back to Best Buy and use the $199 for the Kindle + AZ state taxes + 2 gift cards I'd forgotten about and got an Asus Eee Pad Transformer for less than the cost of a Nook Tablet. Woohoo!

However, I have played with the Nook Tablet and was very impressed with it for the cost. And, as I've said before, I sure like the Nook so I can buy from my local book stores. I love walking in a store where I'm greeted as a friend and the employees actually READ the books. The NT is getting some nice reviews.

[Becky]

Since I live in a sales taxless state, I trotted it right back to Best Buy and use the $199 for the Kindle + AZ state taxes + 2 gift cards I'd forgotten about and got an Asus Eee Pad Transformer for less than the cost of a Nook Tablet. Woohoo!

Love my Transformer!

[smilingcat]

And if you want to turn your Nook into a full Droid tablet without voiding warranty, buy this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA0SG0643471

Looks like it got good review and for extra $50 and 16G of memory, I say its not a bad deal.

[ann_w]

I own both a Nook and a Kindle (because they both use different formats). I use and enjoy them both. The biggest advantage the Kindle has is the free 3g. I was very annoyed when I first got the nook because - to register it - I ended up walking down my neighborhood looking for someone who had an unsecured network. If you don't have wi-fi, you just can't register it very easily.

For both the nook and kindle, you can download a book to your computer and transfer it to your device. For Kindle, I have the free 3g, so when I buy a book it downloads to it directly.

I love reading on e-ink so much that I've grown to resent paper books. I won't buy them anymore. (Well, there are some exceptions - especially for books with illustrations). I was not an early adopter - I though people were nuts to prefer their kindles to real paper. But at my age? It's so much easier to read from the nook and kindle that it's not even funny!

[Irulan]

Nook color tablet:
I received it as a gift when I asked for the b/w one.
Here's my thoughts. It's worthless as is, for a tablet. The app selection available through BN is worthless. There is one free app that I could find, and anything I wanted, while free on other platforms costs a couple of bucks from BN. Really? It is not a recognized android device, so you can't load regular android apps onto it. No Facebook app, no Huffington Post, no New York Times. You can log into the websites to read things, but a regular web page crammed into a 7" display is hard to read.

Now, this "legal" jailbreak thing intrigues me, but heck if now I'm going to have spent $300+ on it (the whole thing, not the rooting disc), why not just get a real tablet? Plus, all the evidence points to the b/w e ink being a much nicer reading experience.

[OakLeaf]

if now I'm going to have spent $300+ on it (the whole thing, not the rooting disc), why not just get a real tablet? Plus, all the evidence points to the b/w e ink being a much nicer reading experience.

FWIW, I've read several books on my iPad now, and I find it quite readable. That was a big surprise to me, since like most people I can't read a laptop screen for that long. It's actually much more readable than my old Sony Reader, which has very low non-adjustable contrast. Now I got a Kindle for Christmas. I like gadgets, but there are limits...