![]() ![]() You can lend a book only if its publisher has allowed this feature. The other drawback of this feature is that each book can only be lent once - ever. As with a paper book, you cannot read your e-book while it’s on loan. The borrower will need Barnes & Noble’s free e-reader app, which is compatible with PC or Mac computers as well as BlackBerrys, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The nook's LendMe feature allows e-books to be shared for 14 days. And if the wireless network requires a login or welcome screen, you cannot log on to it. However, you get no notification when you are near a wireless hot spot. The nook also offers 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity to get online, plus a free Wi-Fi connection in all Barnes & Noble stores. The nook uses AT&T's network for the same purpose. The Kindle 2 3G uses Sprint's network to connect to to download content. studied the top-selling 11,604 books for early November, and found that 74 percent of the time, Amazon offers the lowest-priced e-books (cheaper than B&N or Sony) by an average of 15 percent. Of the current 175 New York Times best sellers, 12 of them aren’t available for Kindle 21 are unavailable for the Nook. These e-books are also available on the Kindle but Amazon does not count them when they advertise because they are copyright-free, low- resolution scans available on Google Books. This includes access to over 500,000 free e-books. According to Barnes & Noble, more than one million newspaper, magazine and e-book titles can be purchased online at BN.com for the nook. Worse, the touch screen is balky and nonresponsive.Īvailable Content for the nook and the KindleĪccording to Amazon, the Kindle has access to more than 360,000 e-books as well as newspapers, magazines and blogs that can be wirelessly downloaded from. At other times, the color strip feels completely, awkwardly disconnected from what it’s supposed to control on the big screen above. Sometimes it makes sense when you’re viewing inch-tall book covers, for example, you can tap to open one. (In effect, it replaces the Kindle’s clicky thumb keyboard.) This screen is exclusively for navigation and controls. That “color touch screen,” for example, is actually just a horizontal strip beneath the regular Kindle-style gray screen. While the color touch screen appears to be a solid plus for the nook, David Pogue writes that ![]() When not in use, the nook's touch screen goes dark. Arrow keys on either side of the device control page-turning. The touch screen can be turned into a keyboard for making annotations and taking notes, or a controller for the MP3 player. The Nook also has a 3.5-inch color touch screen that is used for highlighting text, adding bookmarks and navigating the internal library. It takes nearly three seconds to turn a page - three times longer than the Kindle - which is really disruptive if you’re in midsentence. David Pogue at the New York Times writes thatĮven though it’s exactly the same E Ink technology that the Kindle and Sony Readers use, the Nook’s screen is achingly slower than the Kindle’s. However, the display of the nook is less responsive than the Kindle's. USB 2.0 port (micro-B connector), 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack, Micro-SD SlotĪccelerometer (changes page orientation from portrait to landscape when the device is rotated)Īudible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), MP3īoth Kindle 2 and nook have a 6-inch display with E-Ink technology, 16-level grayscale contrast and adjustable text size. USB 2.0 port (micro-B connector), SD card (original model only), 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack, built-in speaker Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.Ģ weeks (wireless off) 1 week (wireless on) $99-$249 (Nook Simple Touch $99,Nook Simple Touch with GLowlight $139, Nook Color $199, Nook Tablet 8GB $199, Nook Tablet 16GB $249)Īmazon Whispernet using EVDO/CDMA AnyDATA wireless modem (Sprint network)Ĩ.0 × 5.3 × 0.36 in (203 × 135 × 9.14 mm)Ħ00 x 800 pixel, 6 inch E Ink display and a 3.5 inch 480 x 144 pixel color control display ![]()
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