Nook VS Kindle

[DVCLiz]

I must be missing something - the archived items (books I've deleted off the kindle) are viewable under "View Archived Items". Or I can click the "Home" button and see everything I've moved back to the kindle. Maybe its online? I don't see a Content Manager on the kindle itself.

I think Mary Jo must have a Kindle 1, which did have Content Manager. The newer Kindles don't have that anymore.

 

[Talking Hands]

Had to return 3 Nooks because they kept freezing. Gave up and bought a Sony Reader. Doesn't have WiFi but I can download to my computer and then add to my Sony as I need or want. If I could I would go with I-pad. Never thried the Kindle.

 

[lovephotography]

I love my kindle.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

We have neither, at this point, and only because, unlike with an MP3 player, which can play most any (DRM-free) music, if you have an old Kindle (let's say), and then decide to get a Nook, you can't take most of your purchased books with you to your Nook.

My sister-in-law has one or the other; I forget which. She's had her's a while, and so she's been thinking of getting another. What she's saying, now, is wait. This is not the time to be spending money on either a Kindle or a Nook. The introduction of the iPad, and the upcoming introduction of new tables, from Dell and HP, is going to change the face of this sector. Hopefully that change will come soon (let's hope by this Christmas), and will obviate the concern I have (outlined above).

I'm sorry -- I didn't make DSiL's point clear. She isn't saying that the iPad is a better book-reader, but rather that the introduction of the iPad, and other tablets coming to market soon, may prompt a change in the way e-book titles are sold, i.e., perhaps driving toward a standard, as music was driven toward MP3 as a standard. (As recently as early last year, Zune Marketplace was still only offering DRM-locked WMAs. Now, practically everything is available as MP3s.) In other words, she's projecting that this market sector may end up such that you can buy books from Amazon and use them on your Nook, or buy books from Barnes and Nobel and use them on your Wal-Mart brand e-book reader.

This is why I've decided that I'm going to wait. Until I can load all of the of different formats of books on my computer onto one ereader, I don't think I want to waste my money on one.

I want to be able to save all of my books downloaded locally on my computer and be able to transfer them all to another device if I choose.
I also want to be able to download books to my ereader (whichever brand I choose) from any store, website or library that has ebooks. I shouldn't have to buy a certain ereader because I want to download from a particular store.



Oops. Wait. Some people on DIS think I'm too dumb to know how to read...