![]() So you tap again - but now you’ve just triggered a second command that you didn’t want. You wait for the Nook to respond, but there’s no progress bar, no hourglass, no indication that the Nook “heard” you. Often, you tap some button on the color strip - and nothing happens. It takes nearly three seconds to turn a page - three times longer than the Kindle - which is really disruptive if you’re in midsentence. Even 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. The only thing slower than the color strip is the main screen above it. He touch screen is balky and nonresponsive, even for the Nook product manager who demonstrated it for me. Read the whole thing for the details, but it sounds like the Nook has the potential (someday) to have some better features, but it was rushed to market and isn’t quite ready for Prime Time. So the Nook is better? Not exactly, says the NYT: “Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions comes fraught with buzz kill footnotes.” You can even “read entire e-books for free at your local Barnes & Noble.”.“Loan e-books to friends, free of charge.” Wow, that’s a first until the Nook, buying an e-book meant locking it to your account - not lending, nor donating or selling.“Browse e-books, magazines and newspapers on AT&T’s 3G Wireless Network or on Wi-Fi.” Cool! The Kindle doesn’t have Wi-Fi.A catalog of “over one million titles.” (Kindle: only 385,000.).Same compatibility with iPhone or computer.īut the Nook claims to be different and superior:.Same free cellular connection so that you can download books wherever you happen to be.Same ability to display your own photos and play music files.Same screen saver showing woodcuts of famous authors.Same price ($259), same off-white plastic frame around the same six-inch E Ink screen (crisp, black type against a light gray background).His thing is ripped right out of the Kindle’s master playbook.
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