Third post on this, are you tired of it yet?
Well, I now have hundreds of books at my disposal on my new Nook E-Book reader. From Neverland to Wonderland and on the way to OZ. I have books set in the orient, on the moon and in oceans. Books from Baum, Barrie, Doyle, Carroll and Kipling. Lesser known authors for most like Rhomer, Simak and others. So at my fingertips I have reading for weeks or maybe months. Yes I read a lot.
Here are the things I like best about my new e-reader.
It is very easy to download books onto the machine. It would be easier to get them directly from Barnes & Noble, but I can load all of the books I have from Project Gutenburg and feedbooks through the USB port. I like having a wide selection to look at.
It is easy to read the screen in all types of light. I can adjust the font larger if I forget my reading glasses. It does need light to read, just like a book, so it doesn’t get as tiring as a computer screen.
It is easy to mark my place or get back to the exact location I finished reading. The automatic bookmark will keep my current spot in the book I’m reading. You can leave the book, open another and come back to the exact spot you were reading.
I have an unlimited storage capacity. OK, it is limited by my bank account. I can only buy so many memory cards. I haven’t put books on all the ones I have yet!!!
I can have a new book anytime of day, from almost any place. More good news for me.
It is easy to carry the reader around. It is about the size of a paperback book, and about the same weight. I don’t have to lug my laptop around for the books stored in it.
I got to try it out before buying it. The biggest selling e-book reader is a bit harder to try out, unless you know somebody with one.
I can share my books with other Nook owners or people with a (free) Nook reader on their computer. You can loan books for 14 days.
The service from B&N has been great. I really can’t say enough about that. That service made the purchase for me. I will go there again (yeah, I know I was going there before the service.) Guess what guys, I will actually talk about that experience. They are getting free advertising from me.
Now for the down side..
Hey, it is expensive. I could have purchased a lot of books for the price of this machine. Not that I have the shelf space for them, but it is a lot of books
I am not a big fan of the entry screen for note taking or any typing. My fingers are almost too fat to get the keys correctly. It doesn’t look like it will work with a stylus either. Some of the other screens to move around the books are almost too small. If you have larger than average fingers, I would suggest book reader with real keys.
It is a little slow to turn pages. And when it comes to speed, if you have a lot of books on your reader, it takes a bit to load them in.
I’m not 100% certain, but it doesn’t look like you have a good way to organize your books. I would like to break them up by classification. Science Fiction, Mystery, Children’s Classics, History, ect. If I find a way to do that easily, I will let you know.
That about does it. Two thumbs way up for this book reader.
Sounds like fun!
If you come Friday night can you bring it? I’d like to see it….
Sounds great for someone who reads a lot of books! I would guess that the downsides you talked about will be worked on for future versions / updates of the product.
taylhis, I think it great, and I do read a lot of books. Some of the downsides can be fixed with software updates, but I think the entry is not going to go away. I’m not sure why the stylus doesn’t work, but it must need human touch.
Didn’t I read that the loan feature was pretty weak? Well, at least it has one I suppose. If I wanted a reader, I would have to decide between this and an iPad. The iPad would do much more than act as a reader, but it isn’t e-ink and I don’t think supports memory cards. Though it does sync with a computer so the latter might be a non-issue.
Oh, almost forgot- the iPad is at least twice the price depending on the model.
On Saturday, My brother stood in line at a store in C-bus for one of the 300,000 ipads sold. He fiddled around with it all the way to Toledo… he was a passenger not a driver 😉 Somehow, I knew he had to be one of the first to get it.