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Laura S
Have a iPod touch 2 but not too happy with e-reading battery life and read screen. Do you think buying a Kindle or Nook is worth the $140+? Thanks.
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Hi, Laura S, Nook Color from Barnes & Noble is a 7" hybrid eReader/tablet Android device, much more than just an e-Reader but not a full tablet as it doesn't have a camera (but iPad also doesnât have one.) Even though Nook Color has LCD touchscreen, it's a new generation screen which is anti-glare coated and is better performing in sunlight and produces less glare and eye strain all of which are dooming reading on iPad. Also, the screen is amazing and readable/viewable at wide angles.
Nook Color is Wi-Fi-only at this time thus you need to have access to wireless hotspot - examples would be any Barnes & Noble store that provides free Wi-Fi to Nook's or any Starbucks or any McDonalds or airport or any other place that provides free Wi-Fi service or your home wireless router - to download eBooks. Again, it's only needed to download eBooks or browse the Internet. Once you downloaded the eBooks to your device, you don't need Internet connection to read them. There's over a million of free public ebooks as well as over a million of ebooks that you need to pay for available through Barnes & Noble eBook store. Prices are generally much lower than for physical books.
Nook Color has several apps that already come with the device (Pandora Internet radio, QuickOffice, etc.) Also, Barnes & Noble recently released Nook SDK and Nook Developer platform that will allow most of the existing 100,000 Android apps be ported to it. You can use the Social Settings screen to link your NOOKcolor to your Facebook account and your Twitter account. You can also import all your contacts from your Google Gmail account. Once you have linked to Facebook and Twitter and set up email contacts, you can lend and borrow books, recommend books, and share favorite quotes with your friends.
Other benefits of Nook (both black & white and Color) include ability to lend books for two weeks to friends or to your other devices that run B&N app (PC, MAC, Android phones, Apple iPhone and iPad, etc.), to read any available eBook for free while in the store via free provided in the store Wi-Fi, to use it for for library ebooks and for renting text-ebooks.
If all you want is to read novels, Kindle the original e-Ink Nook might be better for you. If you want something more from your device (color graphs and charts of college text books, childrens books, photos and videos, web sites) at half of the price of iPad or Galaxy tab, then Nook Color is your best bet.
Hi, Laura S, Nook Color from Barnes & Noble is a 7" hybrid eReader/tablet Android device, much more than just an e-Reader but not a full tablet as it doesn't have a camera (but iPad also doesnât have one.) Even though Nook Color has LCD touchscreen, it's a new generation screen which is anti-glare coated and is better performing in sunlight and produces less glare and eye strain all of which are dooming reading on iPad. Also, the screen is amazing and readable/viewable at wide angles.
Nook Color is Wi-Fi-only at this time thus you need to have access to wireless hotspot - examples would be any Barnes & Noble store that provides free Wi-Fi to Nook's or any Starbucks or any McDonalds or airport or any other place that provides free Wi-Fi service or your home wireless router - to download eBooks. Again, it's only needed to download eBooks or browse the Internet. Once you downloaded the eBooks to your device, you don't need Internet connection to read them. There's over a million of free public ebooks as well as over a million of ebooks that you need to pay for available through Barnes & Noble eBook store. Prices are generally much lower than for physical books.
Nook Color has several apps that already come with the device (Pandora Internet radio, QuickOffice, etc.) Also, Barnes & Noble recently released Nook SDK and Nook Developer platform that will allow most of the existing 100,000 Android apps be ported to it. You can use the Social Settings screen to link your NOOKcolor to your Facebook account and your Twitter account. You can also import all your contacts from your Google Gmail account. Once you have linked to Facebook and Twitter and set up email contacts, you can lend and borrow books, recommend books, and share favorite quotes with your friends.
Other benefits of Nook (both black & white and Color) include ability to lend books for two weeks to friends or to your other devices that run B&N app (PC, MAC, Android phones, Apple iPhone and iPad, etc.), to read any available eBook for free while in the store via free provided in the store Wi-Fi, to use it for for library ebooks and for renting text-ebooks.
If all you want is to read novels, Kindle the original e-Ink Nook might be better for you. If you want something more from your device (color graphs and charts of college text books, childrens books, photos and videos, web sites) at half of the price of iPad or Galaxy tab, then Nook Color is your best bet.
Is there a way that you can borrow ebooks? Like a Library?
OVOXO
My local library does not carry any of the authors or titles that I read. I have a Kindle e-reader and I read up to 5 books a month. Is there something out there where you can borrow ebooks, like a library, and then return them when you are done reading them.
I never read the same book twice. And I can't keep spending money on ebooks
Any suggestions?
Answer
There're public libraries that provide lending service for Kindle books. You can check here for details:
http://budurl.com/KindlePublicLibrary
Another good way is to subscribe to Amazon Prime, which allows you to borrow one free book (from the bestsellers) per month. Any Kindle device should come with a month free Amazon Prime. Here you can find details of library for Kindle owners:
http://budurl.com/KindleOwnersLibrary
And just in case you don't know, Amazon keep a list of latest most popular free books. Many are new books, and the list is updated daily. So you can check for new free books that are very popular, from time to time to see if you can find good read for yourself:
http://budurl.com/KindleBestFreeBooks
Hope that helps.
There're public libraries that provide lending service for Kindle books. You can check here for details:
http://budurl.com/KindlePublicLibrary
Another good way is to subscribe to Amazon Prime, which allows you to borrow one free book (from the bestsellers) per month. Any Kindle device should come with a month free Amazon Prime. Here you can find details of library for Kindle owners:
http://budurl.com/KindleOwnersLibrary
And just in case you don't know, Amazon keep a list of latest most popular free books. Many are new books, and the list is updated daily. So you can check for new free books that are very popular, from time to time to see if you can find good read for yourself:
http://budurl.com/KindleBestFreeBooks
Hope that helps.
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