Don’t Cry Kindle Owners
Just because you’re first to market, doesn’t mean you’re the best. In the battle of eBook readers, it appears that Kindle just got served. The Barnes and Noble Nook has upgraded it’s features, and the battle is pretty much over. If you’ve been on the fence about buying an eReader, it’s time to jump off.
Truth be told, I’m an audiophile and I prefer to download my books from LearnOutLoud. Audio books allow me to multitask. Once they’re on my iPod, I can play them in the car, at work, etc. However, I read more magazines than books, so I’m between a rock and a hard place where that is concerned. I hadn’t committed to an eReader because none of them gave me what I really wanted — the ability access my favorite magazines and the newer book titles that I was interested in.
Barnes and Noble Nook Review
Barnes and Noble Nook
#1 Pick For eReaders – Money Magazine 2010
nook-The Ultimate Gift for Mom
#1 Reason To Buy A Nook
The primary reason I decided to buy a Nook is that if I have problem with it, I can take it to any Barnes and Noble and have a real person handle it. The store personnel will call customer service for you and fix whatever issue you’re having. Try doing that with a Kindle.
Why Buy A Nook?
Nook – #1 Pick For e-ReadersI never was much interested in a Kindle because the number of books available seemed paltry — 300,000. That’s nothing especially when you consider the number of new releases and many of those are not released in eBook format. I saw a lady using a Kindle and asked her about it — no audio component at all.
Serendipity struck last week when I was making the rounds of my local book stores — Booksamillion, Borders, and B&N . What can I say — I’m a librarian — I have a book fetish. Barnes and Noble upgraded the Nook and it now has features that put it leagues ahead of the Kindle.
You know if there’s any new technology Google has to be complicit. I’m sure you’ve used Google Books at some point. It allows you to read book excepts with handy dandy link to booksellers for purchase. Google Books has about half a million books that you download for free (expired copyright).
Pics of My Nook
Things To Like About the Nook
The Nook can be used as an MP3 player to listen to audio books or music. It holds about 1,500 books, but with an added memory card can hold 7,000.
I like that you can use any picture you like as your wallpaper. In fact, you can use it to store photos.
When you’re inside a B&N, sales coupons pop up on your Nook.
I like that you can search your Nook by book cover – in color. Sometimes you recognize books easier by the cover than the title.
Barnes and Noble offers free Nook classes every Saturday.
The Nook updates itself using any wi-fi connection.
If you don’t want to store your credit card information with B&N, you can buy a gift card and use that to purchase your books.
You can check out any book for an hour while in store.
Books are ‘lendable’ so you can lend a friend a book for two weeks, but this means you lose access to it during that time.
Every Friday is a free book – not of your choice.
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