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post #11 of 45
5/7/12 at 6:54am
kindle fire, 140 refurbed from amazon, dont look back. E-ink is great and i like it too, but after reading a dozen books on my fire, i have no regrets at all.... plus i like reading in the dark sometimes smile.gif

also, the kindle fire can just do sooooooooooooooooooo much. i mean, really, i think there's no better deal/device on the market.
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5/7/12 at 6:55am
nook for sure,
- no built in advertisements to subsidise cost (the $75 kindle )
- glowlight option ( but the original NT looks a bit more crisp due to not having as heavy of an anti-glare screen )
- in store support ( we fix and replace faulty nooks at no charge in store, while i was in charge, if a nook was still under its 1 year warranty, we would replace batterys, cables, everything for free ( note, new modles do not have user replaceable batteries ) )
- rootable
- compatable with more formats than kindle
- free book fridays, and free items from b&n cafe's

- don't be fooled by the 2 month battery life, from 100% to out of power = ~15 hours of use with wi-fi off for both kindle and nook
- nook actually only has about 256mb for side loaded content. the 2gig memory is divided into 1g for updates, etc, and 750 for content downloaded
directly from B&N ( kindle works in a similar fashion )
- cant directly put kindle books on nook, and vise-versa
- both stores have roughly the same amount of books, very similar prices


The orignal nooks were crap imo, but the new nook touch and NT with glowlight are quite snappy, and totally worth the price.

A few days ago, walmart was having a sale where you got a free $30 gift card with purchase.

- check out calibre, its an app to convert anything to epub and other reading fromats for easy reading
http://calibre-ebook.com/

- Former Lead "nook guy" at B&N
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post #13 of 45
5/7/12 at 6:59am
If your main concern is just e-reading, then a standard e-ink reader is all you need. If you want to view pdfs, full, then a 10.1 inch tablet is your best bet. Look for old refurbished units.
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5/7/12 at 7:10am
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The orignal nooks were crap imo

I really liked my original Nook. tongue.gif
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5/7/12 at 8:03am
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- don't be fooled by the 2 month battery life, from 100% to out of power = ~15 hours of use with wi-fi off for both kindle and nook
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I definitely get a solid week or two with heavy use with wifi/3G off (well over 15 hours) with a kindle keyboard.
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post #16 of 45
5/7/12 at 9:12am
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I really liked my original Nook. tongue.gif

They were too slow for my taste, the brower, music player, games, were useless, and the side buttons had a design flaw where they would crack after a while.
the bottom touch screen was slow and un responsive, prone to freezing, but if you are happy with yours, then awesome! I suppose after dealing with broken unit after broken unit, i became used to seeing the bad sides of the device and not the good.

also note to the OP, kindle (as of now) can be used to download content internationally, where nook can't.
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post #17 of 45
5/7/12 at 9:14am
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I definitely get a solid week or two with heavy use with wifi/3G off (well over 15 hours) with a kindle keyboard.

and I would imagine the keyboard versions get better batterylife than the touchscreen versions. ( less battery draining hardware I would think? )
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post #18 of 45
5/7/12 at 11:06am
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Spend a bit more and get the Galaxy Tab 7.0+?
I have a Kobo Vox which is essentially the same as the nook and kindle top end units. I picked up the Samsung 7" and it blows the other devices away in every respect.
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Abit more?

400$ VS 50$?
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post #19 of 45
5/7/12 at 11:20am
I have a Kindle and it's easy to find any book I need through amazon or other means. Believe me, for reading novels and such, a tablet cannot replace an e-ink e-reader. Of course you will want to be using e-reader specific formats such as e-pub, mobi, azw and so on. PDF support is going to be poor on any 6 inch e-ink tablet just because of the way PDF files are formatted.

I bought my kindle about a year ago now for 140 or 160$ and it was the 6inch version with the keyboard on the bottom. Now you can get the new kindle with wifi for 109$ and the kindle touch for 139$. Personally you cannot go wrong at that price, the amazon market has every major book and lots of niche stuff too. I've also found that the amazon prices are for the most part cheaper than other places too.

IMO an e-reader and a tablet serve different purposes. I still want to buy a tablet in the future when they drop in price a bit, but I can never see a tablet replacing my kindle because the devices are completely different.
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5/7/12 at 11:33am
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Abit more?
400$ VS 50$?

$400?

I got mine for $279... No integrated internet card and the 16 GB verision.

Second, a lot of the discussion in this thread has been directed at the Kindle Fire and Nook Color. Given that they sell for $200 (or as low as $180 if on sale), the price delta is not significant given the huge increase in performance between the two classes of devices.
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