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Edilma Howard
In retrospect, it was probably inevitable. Bookselling behemoth Barnes & Noble has spent much of the past decade and a half duking it out with online archrival Amazon.com. So when Amazon unveiled its Kindle e-reader two years ago, it pretty much demanded some sort of response from the 136-year-old merchant.
I don't have details on the logistics of using the device outside the U.S. (my info was based on a discussion with Barnes & Noble). I'm guessing that they check the IP address you're using, and I'm not sure if policies are the same for the Web-based store.
nook owners and B&N eReader customers traveling abroad can access their online eBooks Library wherever they have Wi-Fi connectivity, but they cannot purchase from our eBook store from anywhere outside the United States and U.S. Territories, with the exception (beginning in December) of Canada. Subscriptions that arrive while you travel will be placed in your online eBooks Library, and can be synced to your nook over Wi-Fi.
It should be noted that all e-readers are capable of reading books installed into their memory through USB (assuming the proper format). Purchasing or downloading books wirelessly is not necessarily required. So if you buy your ePub format books from a third party and download them to your laptop, you should be able to transfer them to your Nook to read wherever. Or you could simply load your memory up with as many books as you possibly can before your trip, and not worry about it.
I have a Kindle 2.0 and am very happy with it. The feature I use the most is the text-to-speech capability. I have a 90-minute commute daily and use it to read to me. I listen to books as well as documents for work. Kindle's vast library has sold me on it. Nothing I've learned about Nook encourages me to change (except perhaps the WiFi). But now there is real competition for the Kindle. I'm looking forward to what happens next.
So, the Nook Sucks. Why B&N sell an imperfect ereader. This is awsome. They want to sell the nook at all costs misleading consumers.
I have the International Kindle an its the best ereader. (i have the Hanlin v3 too or Papyre) but its worst.
an open standard can have DRM. an open standard means that anyone can make it, see ePub or AAC or PDF. All of these can have some kind of DRM put in, and that DRM is open as well, meaning the method is the same for each type of file.
there are also third-party hacks for the kindle to let you change the screensaver pictures. but the thing that I would want to see is the ability of the device to _NOT_ go into screensaver mode when turned off, but to leave the page I am reading up so then when I pick the device up I can start reading while I wait for it to turn on again.
I have had a Kindle DX since the week they came out. One thing about these articles that always seems to get overlooked is that all the public domain books that are claimed by Sony/B&N can be read by the Kindle also.
Not only that, with the internet, Kindle can directly download any supported format (without DRM) straight to the device. For example, you can download a classic from Project Gutenberg and it needs no conversion to be read.
nice review, ive been waiting for a good review on the nook for awhile now. I have asked for a nook for xmas for being my first ereader. I thought about getting the sony because its pretty open in terms for formats but lacks things, i dont like the amazon azw way of life, i would have to crack the azw to make it open so i know i wasnt stuck.
The battery life is tiny compared to the week or two on the Kindle and nook, but I already charge it daily, so using it for book reading too makes no difference. It is small enough (and does enough other useful things) that I carry it everywhere. Except the shower and pool of corse.
For me the price was right (free since I had already bought it for other things before I knew it could read Kindle and nook books). If I were buying it just to read books the price tag on the phone would be too high (monthly fee for a book reader?), but the iPod Touch is a good deal for a device that can read BOTH brands of ebook.
My Sony reader can go for three or four weeks without the need to recharge when used lightly (ie read a couple nights a week). I think thats a big advantage over these others and believe also that the wireless feature is overblown. How often do you really buy new books? And given the tens of thousands of free books available there is no reason to every find yourself with nothing to read. I have literally hundereds of books on my device just waiting to be read.
Some topic categories have more of a problem with this than others. I browsed history once, sorted in order by publication date, and waded through about 10 pages of public-domain spam from a single publisher before I gave up.
For example, somebody took the diary of Samuel Pepys, valid in itself, but then broke the ten years or so of diaries into single-month ebooks, creating 120 or so different ebooks, that clogged up the category.
Im with J. Osborne: iPhone gives me convenient access to all major e-book formats (including Kindle and Nook). Even when at home, I prefer the smaller form factor (over Kindles), and at night the backlighting allows me to continue to read without additional lighting (which my wife appreciates).I read more novels since last March (when I got the Kindle app) than in many years before (thanks to having my reader with me at all times).
I will not go near any ebook, especially since AMAZON deleted books that had been sold. Never trust anyone that sneaks around you back and deletes honest books. Amazon has become a book burner and I do nt tolerate any book burners.
In deed this is a great tools specially for people like me who need to read/refer a lot of books. But I doubt which will worth spending, to either of these three device you mentioned above or an ultra thin notebook device e.g. Sony Vaio.
Have you heard of the Digital Lounge? This site is awesome. It has a couple of thousand products with master resale rights and private label rights all priced under 2 bucks. full-master-resell-rights.com
First I had to wait about 30 days for my nook to
arrive. It worked as advertised at first
but began having problems after the third recharge cycle. The nook was stuck in the screen shot mode and
would not respond. After holding for 45
minutes, B&N tech support was able to walk me through rebooting the reader. After a full recharge, again the nook would
not turn on at all. I tried everything
recommended by tech support and nothing worked. How does a new item with a new battery stop working like this? Why doest it take 45 minutes each time you
call their help desk?
I decided to ask for the manager and request a refund. Although they agree to fully refund me the
price of the nook, all accessories and membership fee, they would not refund
the ebooks I had purchased. I can tell
you that the service managers are anxious to get unhappy customers off the
phone. I suggested that I receive a
store credit to purchase the physical books in their stores which they refused
to do. They were just happy to get me
off the phone.
The nook DOES have audio book ability. on MP3, just like music. However it does not support audiable.com since amazon has an agreement with them. If you do a web search there are mp3 book rentals that are like netflix for the most part. B&N tried to tell me that the only audio books supported were the ones that they sell online (sales girl told us this), its not true, it does not support the .AA files like audiable. You DL the book CD just like you would for any mp3 player & upload to the nook instead of the MP3 player.
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Discovered that when using MTP to talk to USB port, that I cannot sent but a few files over to the micro SD card. This can be overcome by putting files on the SD card on you computer first before using it on the Nook. Looks like some kind of bug for Android 7.
I am about to try it out. My Nook HD+ is already rooted with CyanogenMod-Version 10.2.1-ovation running Android-Version 4.3.1.
Would this still work fine
with your instructions or do I need to change something first?
Thank you for making this so easy. I had the 5.1 version and I remember that seemed a lot more complicated to do. This version looks nice and I dont have to reitre a perfectly good tablet (well just yet anyway!
Just curious if there are currently any newer versions of android that you have images for that will work with these or similar instructions? Or is 7.1 still the most up to date version available for the Nook HD+ ??
Funny, mine worked like a charm for a few weeks, then it stopped booting. Left it aside for another few weeks and came back to it today. It was now booting into some B&N nook mode, asked for wi-fi and nothing else happened. Just installed everything back from the SD card. Did this happen to anyone else as well?
This gives you the ability to purchase Android Market apps, use Gingerbread (Android 2.3), and lets you take advantage of the working bluetooth chip hidden from users and disabled on the hobbled flavour of Android installed by default on the Nook Color.
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