[Hidden-tech] Kindle or Nook

[Rich]

You might also consider the Sony E-book -- nice little device, esp if you prefer reading
the classics - we get most of our content from gutenberg.org (although they really blew
their marketing opportunity -- they now have a store like Amazon)

We have both a Sony e-book and an iPad - we used the Sony to travel over 4 months in the
EU where we had no place for much bigger for reading -- it was great.

One thing you need to understand is the difference between a 'real' ebook and a tablet --
an ebook uses a different technology called epaper and is very slow and very low power
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaper)

Most all devices read e-pub format and some have their own. Pdf is readable to a varying
degree.

All the Kindle, B+W Nook and Sony are e-books -- the iPad is a tablet -- I can't tell
which the color Nook is - it looks like a tablet to me.

Rich

On 12/3/2010 4:02 PM, Izzy Gesell wrote:
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> I'm ready to buy one or the other. Is one better than the other? I know that Nook has
> color and books can be swapped, I  know a lot of folks with Kindles, very few  with Nooks.
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> Happy Holidays,
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> Izzy
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