Posted on 03/27/2011 7:58:21 PM PDT by Black_Shark
Thanks for that link. Always something new to find on FR!
Really? How’s this look in black and white? The Nook Color has 8g of storage space that I can add to with an SD card; Kindle has 4g with no expansion. Kindle doesn’t read the standard ePub format. I’ve got music, photos, web browsing, video (with Flash coming next month), and it costs only $50 more. Better put those hands back up cuz you got robbed. ;^)
Can it do color?
Nook Color: “Flash is indeed coming to the device, along with an app store — Angry Birds is confirmed — and push e-mail, ushered along by an OS update to Android 2.2.”
I recently received a Kindle 3G as a gift. I travel often, and it sure beats lugging books around. Compared to reading on a laptop, it is extremely easy on the eyes. I’m in the habit of reading multiple books at a time and having a Kindle makes that a joy. Yeah, the Kindle web browser is clunky and kind of slow, but it’s just fine for basic browsing, especially when you don’t have an internet connection or don’t want to fumble around for your credit card to login at the airport. I recommend using it with Calibre; an open-source software that, among other things, allows you to convert any e-reader format to work with the Kindle.There a hundreds of thousands of free e-books to be had too, including most of the classics. And you can also “check out” e-books from your library, load them on the Kindle, and read them for free. Buy a Kindle. You will love it.
It doesn't need to. Kindle uses advanced e-ink technology which makes it easier on the eyes and resembles a book.
The LCD used in Nook and Ipad, for example, strains the eyes over time.
Okay, but your reply should have been to Cementjungle
But, Kindle’s greatest rival Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color eReader to get a Software update in April; expected to bring Flash, Email and App Store
For the reference & link to Calibre, all is forgiven! *\;^)
Seriously, I had not known of it before, so you've done me a great favor! Thanks!!!
Got my son his second Kindle for Christmas (first one got broken), and he loves it. Admittedly kind of a corner-case situation, but he’s a “bubble-head glow-worm” - Navy nuke submariner. He loves to read, and it holds tons of books, goes forever on a single charge, and doesn’t take up much of the half a cubic foot of personal storage space you’re alloted on a submarine.
Kindle gets library book lendingA slight addendum -- the ePub system currently used by library e-book lending systems also includes a DRM system (not surprisingly; otherwise there'd be no way to enforce a limited checkout period) -- the difference isn't between DRM and no DRM, it's between two mutually incompatible DRM systems.Users of Amazon's Kindle e-reader will soon be able to borrow electronic books from libraries in the US.
The retailer is teaming up with Overdrive, which already offers an e-book lending service through 11,000 American libraries.
Until now Kindle owners have been unable to download titles because the device uses a unique file format....
Overdrive has been in business for several years and offers hundreds of thousands of books to readers whose devices use the epub file format.
However, Amazon has its own proprietary system, based on the Mobipocket format, which includes a digital rights management system to prevent copying....
I really depend upon my iPod for borrowing audiobooks. My husband and I have been looking at alternatives in case my iPod croaks. Thank you!
P.S. If you have any more updates, I’d appreciate receiving them.
FRegards,
SG
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