Kindle 2 or the barnes and aristocrat nook e-book to be exact coming out soon?
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From the official page of B&N, here is how the Nook compares with the Kindle:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compa…
Since Barnes and Noble page is only mentioning the dominance of the Nook over the Kindle, let me try to tell more about the benefit of the Kindle 2 over the Nook:
- There is no internet browser for the Nook. So even beside Wi-Fi, you can only use it to purchase book. You cannot do searching in Google, Wikipedia, check email, etc., similar to what you can do with the Kindle.
- The Amazon Kindle has international free 3G wireless which covers over 100 countries. So even if you're in places similar to the UK or Australia, you can access the internet with the Kindle free of charge. The Nook has wireless only inwardly the U.S., and is limited for use of buying books only
- The Kindle is available outside the U.S. (it ships to 176 countries), while the Nook only ship inwardly the U.S. at this moment.
- The Kindle has text-to-speech function, so it can treat an ebook like audio book. This function is not present on the Nook.
- Amazon is already doing some amendment after the Nook is announced (still more than one month for it to be available). They dropped the price of their International Kindle even further. And they are going to release a PC software which can read their Kindle books.
One more thing to be aware is that, at first glance you may think the Nook can read ebooks next to color touch screen. But indeed the color touch screen is only a small eyeshade beneath the greyscale eink screen, and seems it is only used to browse the cover of ebooks.
In my view, it is a tie between the Kindle and the Barnes and Noble. But if you may travel and you enjoy reading during your trip, you should go for the Kindle for sure. Moreover, I trust the Kindle will come up with some strategies hugely soon, like improving their lending book function. The Kindle is the biggest player contained by the ereader market right now, and I believe it will put enormous action to hold its position.
I recommend this article as well, it is the best review on ebook readers I've ever read:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i…
Hope this helps you agree on. Source(s): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015T9… (Amazon Kindle)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index… (Barnes and Nobles Nook)
I own the Kindle 2. If you ask me to choose again now, I'll still go for the Kindle instead of the Nook, because I think the trellis browsing function is rather important (the Nook does not have a network browser). The free internet (and now it is free international internet) plus the web browser allow me to look for information whenever I'm in inevitability. It is really a cool feature that cannot be missed. And right now it is free for both the U.S. and many other countries, it is a moment ago incredible when you bring it to trip.
I like to use the text-to-speech function on the Kindle too, meaning that I can "read" with my hand and eyes free...
I remember I read this review when I decided to get my Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i…
Hope it helps :)
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So, what do you dream up of B&N's unusual e-reader: Nook?
Here you go- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index… | I'll still go for the Kindle because the internet access is so important. This is a review from a top reviewer and a book lover, see how she says: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i… Hope this help. I own the...