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Lane Frisch

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Aug 2, 2024, 1:00:42 AM8/2/24

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I got a Nook Color for Christmas, and my dd got a Kindle Fire. So we have been having fun comparing the two. They are very similar but there seems to be more free books and apps available for the Kindle than for the Nook. So I'm just wondering if it would be worth it to root it so I could download the Kindle app. I have never even owned a smartphone, so I'm not very technically savvy. ;)

My kids got Nook Colors for Christmas. We set them up to boot off of an SD Card (we did it ourselves). We had to troubleshoot a little bit, but got them to work. We didn't root them by overwriting the nook interface and if we take out the memory card they still boot up as a stock Nook Color.

My daughter can text her friends using Google voice and the kids have access to Android Market apps as well as the Amazon app store. They can check out library books over WiFi and use both the Nook and Kindle apps to read books. They also can watch Netflix, check email, update Goodreads and do math flashcards.

The OS that we used (CM7) can be a little unstable at times, but nothing that hasn't been fixed by restarting. I understand that rooting them is more stable and most of the issues are caused from booting from the sd card, but rooting voids the warranty and we wanted to see how it worked from the sd card first.

I rooted dw's Nook Color, so she could install the Kindle app and any other app from the Google Market. However, she missed the animation of the pages she had with the stock version, and made me switch it back. :glare:

we have 2 rooted nooks. i bought one SD card from rootmynook.com & the other one we purchase for about half the cost at amazon. both SD cards work great (the format is a little different, but they do the same thing). the benefit of rooting your nook is that it turns it into an android tablet. we can still read books on it, but we also can download apps from the amazon market or android market. we also have access to netflix and youtube. it's just fun. if i ever want to revert back to the nook color operating system, i simply can take out the SD card.

Our kids play Plants vs Zombies and Peggle on my rooted Nook. I check email on it. I also run the Kindle app on it :lol: DH tried it first with the android OS on the SD card but it ran too slow that way so he went all the way with it.

I rooted my new Nook tablet. Once you root and block the OTA's, you don't have access to the Nook store on your device anymore. I buy my books online and side load to my Nook. I have full access to Android Market, Kindle apps and reader, as well as the Kobo reader app, which I must say is WAY better than B&N content. I wanted it for the incredible fast processor and OS. I installed different launcher and debloated it as well.

The Kindle is a tablet. After comparing the two (NC and Fire) the main differences to *me* seem to be that there are more apps/books available on Amazon than on Barnes & Noble, and the NC has an SC card and the Fire doesn't. The Fire instead has extra "Cloud" storage which of course you must be online to access.