Kindle vs Nook

[jinjuku]

I'm more curious about the differing freebie and lending options that Amazon and B&N offer.

Which back end service is simply going to offer more no or low cost options (outside of ebooks from the library).

Looking for a straight up e-ink display device.

 

[lsiberian]

I'm more curious about the differing freebie and lending options that Amazon and B&N offer.

Which back end service is simply going to offer more no or low cost options (outside of ebooks from the library).

Looking for a straight up e-ink display device.

I lean kindle.

 

[JohnA]

I rooted my color Nook with CM7 (in under 5 mins) so I now have a full android tablet with both amazon and B&N on it.

 

[j_garcia]

Is screen size a factor? Color or mono and do you want other capabilities? Having used the Fire that I bought my dad and the older mono Kindle my mom has, I'd have to lean Kindle as well. Since I use my phone for a lot of things as is, I'm definitely more interested in a device that has more functionality than basically just a digital reader because you can get the Kindle app on just about any device right now if you just want to read.

 

[jinjuku]

I want the E-Ink display since it is easier in regards to eye strain and less fatiguing than active displays.

So color is out. I think Amazon offers more low and no cost content. But I wasn't sure. Most of the reviews out there are about the devices themselves and not the offerings backing them up.

 

[sholling]

I legally own 589 kindle books and may have paid for 30 or so. The rest were all freebies from Amazon and some of those freebies have been pretty entertaining. Yes a few sucked but some freebies were quite good. Don't expect works from established authors or great literature I've enjoyed a few standalone books and gotten sucked into a few decent series because the first book was free or 99 cents. It's just a good way for new authors to get their names out there and build a following. I get a list from eReaderIQ every morning and pick what I want. They list freebies in every category from scifi to mysteries to business to cookbooks to lady-porn to medical stuff for doctors that's totally over my head.

I'd hold off buying a device for a couple of weeks though because there are rumors that the whole Kindle line is due for a refresh possibly as soon as this week or next or at least very soon.

 

[lsiberian]

The color kindle reads like a color newspaper so eye strain shouldn't be an issue. That said I do get eyestrain if I read on my phone too long.

 

[j_garcia]

I'd hold off buying a device for a couple of weeks though because there are rumors that the whole Kindle line is due for a refresh possibly as soon as this week or next or at least very soon.

Yep. There was an article about a month ago saying August would be the new ones and this article today:

There's zero chance Amazon outs its most heavily anticipated product in a year on a summer Friday. But there's also no way it stays out of stock of some of its most popular products for more than a few days. Which means we're going to see new Kindles of every stripe next week.

$110 Says All the New Kindles Are Coming Next Week

 

[sholling]

One thing to keep in mind with ebooks is that sometimes the editing and formatting just plain sucks. I find editing (spelling and grammar) problems in a lot of free and cheap ebooks but as a spelling challenged dyslexic I tend to be forgiving of such things - but poor formatting, especially in $15+ ebooks, is unforgivable. An example is a $17 constitutional law ebook written by a renowned law professor from a prestigious university. A man that has argued multiple cases before the Supreme Court but he forgot that manuscripts have to be specially formatted for conversion to ebooks and this professor failed to include an extra line break at the end of each paragraph. The result was what each chapter appeared to be a single 10-20 page long paragraph that was completely unreadable. I wound up going out and buying the hard copy version which was actually very readable for a law book even if it contained the same typos.

By the way don't overlook the other legitimate free sources. Project Gutenberg offers free ebooks from books that have lapsed into the public domain. Baen Books offers free ebooks from their stable of both new and well established authors.
http://www.baen.com/library/defaulttitles.htm