Comments on: Barnes & Noble Nook is Official — Knocks the Kindle to the Curb

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:23:01 +0000

Seriously worth the wait.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:20:29 +0000

You can charge it with the usb or the adapter. It’s the same single plug like the ipod.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:18:57 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle has their own exclusive file type, so it is not compatible with other reader software – my deciding point for purchasing the nook.

I love my nook and have had no problems with it. The battery life is just fine and lasts a long time when in airplane mode. I’ve never had any issues with it yet.

It’s great, you can order directly from your nook or B&N website and it is sent to your nook instantly.

It’s much nicer looking than the Kindle too. I’m so glad someone told me that the nook was coming out because I was going to purchace the Kindle.

I couldn’t be happier with my choice!

By: karen

karen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:42:58 +0000

Can you load your kindle books onto the nook?

By: adria007

adria007 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:24:04 +0000

Nope, sorry, I don’t think so. Well written article though. Just got my Nook. It crashes when opening any ebook including the ones that came with it. I’m sending it back. I’m not waiting another minute for it as I’ve waited long enough. I’m getting the Kindle instead. The Nook is an overpriced, over sized, paperweight. The user interface is choppy too and the crashing is constant. Forget it. Amazon is a better company anyway.

By: kenz

kenz — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:38:09 +0000

I was wondering if with Nook you are able to read book from local libarys with e-book libarys. This is a very important deciding facter for me.

By: Ernest Vaughan

Ernest Vaughan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:42:49 +0000

DOes the thing charge with an adapter or do you HAVE to use usb?

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:32:06 +0000

The PR was emailed to me so I don’t have a link. It should be on their website somewhere.

B&N told me that you would copy the content over via USB onto the Nook.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:56:49 +0000

I am also interested in seeing this release. How would you go about getting the downloaded EPub DRM book that I got from the library onto the Nook?

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:54:09 +0000

I pre-ordered a Nook and was told that it would be shipped on Nov 30. I checked my order status yesterday only to find out that they had changed myship date to Dec 7 without even telling me.

Bad way to start a relationship with your customers.

By: Pym

Pym — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:03:56 +0000

Yep, I just pre-ordered and the email shows shipping on Nov 30.

By: El

El — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:31:09 +0000

Books bought from the Sony eReader website are DRM type formats. Next year, all of the books at the Sony store will be converted to ePUB format. So next year, you can re-download all the books you bought at the Sony eReader store in ePUB format, and those can be read on the Nook. http://ebooks.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ebooks.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=133

By: borax99 (AlainC.)

borax99 (AlainC.) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:33 +0000

No support for Canada, pfeh, another Sony win !

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:11 +0000

Can you point us to that release? I tried and failed to use the BN ereader software to open either pdf or epub files from the public library. Files open fine on Sony’s software, and if BN software won’t open the files, I’m doubtful about the nook’s ability.

Also, don’t know if there are any mac users out there, but the mac client from BN is a hot mess. No “bookshelf” or viewable list of your books makes it really a pain to use. So even if it DOES open public library books, it will likely be tedious. Sony’s pulling ahead on my list…

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:36:17 +0000

that pretty much fits my needs and my reading style. I already own a bunch of B&N books but I don’t like reading on a computer (heck I do that all day). I have a JetBook and like the LCD screen better than e-ink (no flicker), but no browsing and no blogs (converting all the RSS etc stuff every day takes the fun out of reading them). Something that can give me DRM book reading (yeah I know DRM sucks but I’m too lazy to break them), library Adobe DRM downloads, and blogging in a sub-pound package is all I need.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:55:03 +0000

Since it’s Android, you could add the RSS feed to Google Reader, and read Google Reader feeds via the Android browser.

I do that on my phone now. Unfortunately, the Android version of Google Reader is somewhere in between the WAP and Desktop versions (WAP == the mobile version for dumb-phones … very low frills; Android and iPhone get a version that’s like the mobile/WAP version, with finger friendliness tacked on, but still not the features you get with a Desktop web browser).