Anyone Own A Kindle?

[kayak_rat]

Peter, do they come with a magnifying glass?? Old eyes you know.....

[VTDragon]

I would own one if I could connect to their wireless network here in northern Vermont. Unfortunately it is Sprint with no service locally. I am eagerly awaiting the Plastic Logic reader. It is suposed to be 8 1/2 x 11, touch screen, same display as the Kindle, content partners Barnes & Noble and Google Books, (yielding much more content than Amazon) and wireless downloads via the AT&T network which works very well here in the north country. In the meantime I trudge to the library and the bookstore.

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by kayak_rat

Peter, do they come with a magnifying glass?? Old eyes you know.....

God, I sure hope so.

[aich75013]

If you haven't bought a Kindle yet, take a look at the Nook which was announced by Barnes and Noble yesterday.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by aich75013

If you haven't bought a Kindle yet, take a look at the Nook which was announced by Barnes and Noble yesterday.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

Guess what I spent my lunch hour at work reading about today? Given Amazon's actions with deleting books from customer's Kindles, it is likely I won't be buying one. Much more likely I will be buying a Nook.

Originally Posted by aich75013

If you haven't bought a Kindle yet, take a look at the Nook which was announced by Barnes and Noble yesterday.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

Very Interesting. There's going to be a lot of ereaders hitting the shelves this holiday season.

It's unclear, or I didn't see either way, if the Nook is tied to B&N the same way that the Kindle is tied to Amazon. If so, that's a deal killer for me. The move is away from that and towards allowing content from various providers, in various formats. Just something to keep in mind.

[aich75013]

Originally Posted by Resipsa

Very Interesting. There's going to be a lot of ereaders hitting the shelves this holiday season.

It's unclear, or I didn't see either way, if the Nook is tied to B&N the same way that the Kindle is tied to Amazon. If so, that's a deal killer for me. The move is away from that and towards allowing content from various providers, in various formats. Just something to keep in mind.

I wouldn't be surprised. I did see that you are supposed to be able to download some of the free books from google.
Another feature is that you can lend books to friends for a while. I think two weeks.


"3. More Books: B&N offers more titles than Amazon, plus the Nook can access 500,000 public domain titles from Google that are not available to Kindle users. The Nook will load and read Adobe Acrobat PDF documents, which the Kindle does not do."


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