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 Love My Nook! May 19, 2010
J. J. McMahon (Rochester, MN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've seen some negative reviews from people who purchased the Nook earlier this year (Jan/Feb), however, I just bought mine about a week ago and have had 0 problems with it. My wife received hers as a Christmas gift and has never had a problem with it. I upgraded immediately to firmware 1.3 (the newest version) which adds some games (yay for Sudoku!) as well as a web browser. If you are looking for a mobile web device, stick to a smart phone or netbook as this is not it. That's not a complaint as I never expected this to be a web browser for me, it's first and foremost an e-book reader, and it's a great one at that!
The e-ink screen is amazing, and makes reading so much easier than an LCD screen (if you have to read a lot of PDFs for work I would buy one of these just for that!). The other features on this are outstanding as well. It reads a number of formats including epub and PDF, so you are not stuck only shopping for books from one source (i.e. the Kindle, iPad, and Sony e-reader). It is also compatible with Adobe Digital Editions, so it's a snap to download a book from my local library and read it on my Nook. It's also easy to lend books to other Nook users (so long as the book you have is LendMe(TM) compatible). The media player works well, but only plays MP3s, so none of the songs you bought off of iTunes that is an M4P (i.e. DRM'd beyond use) will work - that's why I always recommend buying digital music from Amazon's MP3 store - great selection and prices, and NO DRM. The sound quality from the speakers on the Nook is not so good (they're small and I didn't expect them to be top quality), but if you plug in some headphones it sounds great!
I also like that it comes with three free books already pre-loaded (Dracula, Little Women, and Pride & Prejudice) and you can customize your background/screen saver with BMP, JPG, etc. pictures. The only downside is that the battery life is not quite up to par with some of the other e-book readers out there. A lot of that is due to the LCD touchscreen, but it's worth the hit to the battery life. That being said, I have had no complaints with the battery life for my day-to-day usage and if you are a heavy user, you can buy a back-up/secondary battery to swap out (try that with your iPad!). As the title says, I love my Nook, and it seems like Barnes & Noble has gotten the bugs fixed. You can also take your Nook into Barnes & Noble and they'll go over all of the features and show you how to get the most out of it - not to mention you can read any e-book they have for free while in the store, and they are currently in a 5 week promotion where they are giving away 1 e-book each week to anyone who brings their Nook into the store.
 What? The human is not top priority? May 19, 2010
D. Ault
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All in all, this is a good product with a few annoying features.
One of the "bugs" I find most annoying involves the lack of response from the touchscreen. If the touchscreen has gone dark and you wish to revive it, sometimes it ignores your repeated touches and continues snoozing. It eventually responds and comes back to life, but it often feels a bit like trying to wake a dozing teenager. You just have to keep poking it. This makes me wonder; What is this nook's CPU doing that is so important that it has to ignore ME? Am I, The Reader, not the top interrupt priority? I mean, who paid for this thing anyway? Just because I have become accustomed to this disrespectful treatment from my PC doesn't mean it is acceptable from all of my electronic devices.
I Love My Nook! May 18, 2010
J. Flores (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After looking at all the e-readers that are available I decided to try the Nook. I have had it for about a month and I Love it! I Love the fact that I can purchase and search books without ever having to log onto my computer, and they are available for you to read instantly. The battery lasts about a week, which is sufficient for me. I Love the way it looks and I don't have any of the other issues that some people seem to have. The page turns takes about 2 seconds and I never have any problems with the touch screen being slow. I would recommend this product to anyone!
Worthy if not better opponent to the Kindle May 13, 2010
Ahmed H. Hassan (Boston)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Nook is more elegant and functional than the Kindle, with a touch screen below the reading screen rather than the Kindle's typewriter-buttons, and no menu-like inteface. The only mechanical controls are page-forward and page-back arrows on each side of the Nook. You can also turn pages on the Nook by swiping the touch-screen. In comparison the Kindle keyboard just looks ugly to me but thats all a matter of personal taste. I feel the Nook is better built compared to the Kindle. One important feature on the Nook is "airplane mode" (just like the iPhone) so that you can still turn it on and it won't transmit data which is important for flight safety. I travel internationally a lot and that's important for me. You can lend books to friends unlike the Kindle and iPad, which although limited on the Nook, is still a feature that I can use from time to time to lend books to my finance. You can't read the book yourself while it's being lent out. It holds as many as 1,500 books using a 2GB Micro SD but you can always put in a large Micro SD which so you will never have a problem with storage space on the Nook (this is lacking in the iPad). The iPad is also bigger than the Nook and the Kindle. The Nook's weight is comparable to the Kindle but it is much lighter than the iPad (which weighs 1 1/2 pounds compared to the Nook's 12 ounces). The iPad is hard to handle with one hand as comfortably as the Kindle or the Nook. The iPad's screen, which allows reading in the dark really doesn't do it for me - did anyone read in the dark anyway before e-readers? It is not healthy! I like the Nook's ink screen, and it is for this reason I think serious readers will never replace the Nook or the Kindle with an iPad. The Nook software is based on a version of the Android operating system, which is an open platform, unlike Apple's and Kindle's "lock everything" mentality. This means that the intent of the Nook's maker, B&N is not as controlling and monopolizing. The software played a key factor in my choice of the Nook. The Nook software has been updated in several significant respects. It now incorporates a browser and is by no means great (just as bad as the Kindle's), but works better than my Blackberry's. The software upgrade has addressed the problems that you read about in most of the reviews, which were written before the last update. I believe that in due course the Nook will attempt to migrate towards a capable browser in the direction of the iPad. Like the Kindle the Nook has free 3G and free Wi-Fi. The only drawback of the Nook is its limited ability to buy books while you are out of the US. You can use it to read the books which you have already bought while in the US, but if like me, you spend more time out of the US than within, you are stuck with B&N putting a limitation on accessing its store if your IP address is non-US, and you cannot use a non-US credit card to buy books from its store. Since the Kindle has such international capability and doesn't care where you credit card is issued, I believe Nook will eventually do a software update that enables downloading and buying books on the Nook when not in the US. The Nook reads pdfs (like the Kindle) but unlike the Kindle the Nook will let you read the books you already have because it is compatible with the e-pub format. Reading e-pub was a key deciding factor for me. There has been new updates to the Nook like ability to read books free while you are sitting in a B&N bookstore. I like this because it keeps the emotional feel of being in a book store and picking up any book and reading it. Now you do it on the Nook! Amazon overprices the Nook. You can get the Nook at USD260 in Best Buy, as of the date of this review.
Much better than kindle. May 9, 2010
S. Johnson (Seattle, WA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great device, I have owned a kindle and returned it due to feeling it was not worth the money. The nook has way more features, and with android the possiblities are endless.
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