Kindle v/s NookBook?

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Dilemma between buying Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook(only in the US)? Any advice is much appreciated. :thinking:
 
Got a Kindle. It's fine for text reading. I'd check the titles you are prepared to buy and if there are enough at the right price then it does a good job. I got it to carry and read .pdf files and its screen is just a little too small for me to read them comfortable.

For free books have a look at the Gutenburg project. You can download onto a PC and thence to Kindle.

Beware about claims of free books for the Kindle, yes there are loads but most are out of copyright so they are mostly old classics that may or may not be one's 'cup of tea'.

My first Kindle just stopped working but Amazon replaced it immediately.
 
I think the new version of the Kindle is rubbish, its way way too dark to read in something like bedroom lighting and theres no way to adjust it, sent it back after 2 days.
 
Gary Coyle said:
I think the new version of the Kindle is rubbish, its way way too dark to read in something like bedroom lighting and theres no way to adjust it, sent it back after 2 days.
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You can adjust its screen contrast, maybe you just had a bad screen. :shrug:
 
Blimey.... Mine works great
I haven't opened a 'real' book since I got the Kindle (I got an early one)
Screen is definitely readable is low light; and I use the smallest font setting.

I think the contrast thing mentioned earlier only applies to PDF's
I've found that reformatting PDF for A5 will show very nicely on the Kindle; otherwise you need to zoom in to read, which is a bit of a pain.
 
I've have a quick play with a friends Kindle and I think they are quite nice, not sure whether really I need one though.
 
I havnt used a nook but i`ve got the new Kindle 3G after upgrading from the Sony 505, i find the kindle fantastic, never had a problem reading in low light and although the the book menu system isnt the best its so quick and easy to use i cant complain, the page turns are easily half the time of my old sony as well.
 
Gary Coyle said:
How????

My cousin has one and his is the same, no adjustment he can find anywhere.
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My bad. You can adjust the contrast, but only when viewing a PDF file. I presume I found the feature there and thought it was generally available whatever type of file you are viewing.
 
studioworks said:
... although the the book menu system isnt the best its so quick and easy to use i cant complain, ...
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I've organised my Kindle into 5 collections:
- Currently Reading
- Unread
- Books
- Manuals (CS5, LR3, 5DII, Tom Tom, etc)
- Photography (all my training material in case I need to show anyone)
Books added to the Kindle appear on the home page which usually contains no books, so the new books are really obvious. I go though and add the new books into Books and Unread which empties the home page.

When I finish a book I add a Bookmark to the last page; My Clippings then contains a handy list of all the books I've read.

If you have a source of free books then managing them becomes a problem - With several thousand books even using the PC file manager to view a folder for each author is a serious problem.

The solution I've used is to install Calibre.
It's a book database - really good - and free
It has Kindle integration; when the Kindle is plugged in you get an extra column appearing showing you which books are currently on the Kindle. Putting books onto the Kindle is as simple as selecting then and thumping a button.
 
Had a Kindle 3 for a few months now. Love it, though I use it to "read" books to me while Im at work and doing boring tasks.

Screen is lovely, battery life is great and it does PDFs natively. So Ive got everything on there from my home boilers PDF manual to software manuals and actual books :D

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You can also add audio books. I downloaded Origin of Species from the Gutenberg Project and had it read to my while I drove to and from work. The inbuilt text reader is adequate, it's a bit like having a bored Steven Hawking reading to you :lol:
 
I was considering asking for one of these for Christmas but don't think it would be a lot of use for me. I read a LOT, often have a couple of books on the go at once in different parts of the house and mostly get second hand from charity shops etc. It would therefore cost a fortune to get enough on it for me to read and some of the times I would want to use it it would have to be turned off (when planes take off and land and anything electronic has to be switched off and can be quite a long time) - this only came to mind because I saw someone with one the other day.
 
DuncanDisorderly said:
The solution I've used is to install Calibre.
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I use calibre as well, ive only got a few hundred ebooks but i found it invaluable for correcting all the author/title information.

Ive read a little about using collections on kindle but havent had chance to give it a try yet, i was just used to the way the sony displayed all the books, its nice and easy to use straight out the box.
 
Evolutionist said:
You can also add audio books. I downloaded Origin of Species from the Gutenberg Project and had it read to my while I drove to and from work. The inbuilt text reader is adequate, it's a bit like having a bored Steven Hawking reading to you :lol:
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Use the female voice, its less Apple Mac from 1984 :D
 
Rikki said:
Use the female voice, its less Apple Mac from 1984 :D
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Tried it, sounded like a whiny American air hostess giving a safety briefing, but less interested. :D
 
Meh - I tried :D

She just read the entire 600+ page Alan Sugar autobiog to me, nice to hear her say t0ser, w4nker, ******** and f|_|ck :D
 
Rikki said:
Meh - I tried :D

She just read the entire 600+ page Alan Sugar autobiog to me, nice to hear her say t0ser, w4nker, ******** and f|_|ck :D
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:lol:

Kindle reader has trouble with academic texts, references cause some comic interludes. In The Decent of Man, Darwin doesn't even bother to translate the quotations if they happen to be in French or Latin :thinking::bonk:
 
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