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Kindle Vs Nook Vs Sony Reader
Kindle • Cost: starts at $139 • Pros: The best e-reader if your top priority is reading purchased books and newspapers. The Pearl E Ink quality is exquisite, and the battery lasts a full month. It’s also well-priced, light, thin and easy to hold for a long time. The keyboard is delightful for those of [...]
Product Review: Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350
Image by Book Thingo via Flickr It’s not often that a company reaches its user-base and gives them what they want; however, Sony has done this with its latest e-reader: the Pocket Edition PRS-350. It had seemed that Sony was failing hard with its e-reader line until the newest edition hit the market in 2010. [...]
Amazon.com Is Said to Be Introducing Thinner Kindle in August
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, plans to introduce the next version of its Kindle electronic-book reader in August, according to two people familiar with its plans. The device will be thinner and have a more responsive screen with a sharper picture, the people said, who didn’t want to be identified because the plans [...]
Kindle vs. iPad: Far from over
In the matchup between the iPad and the Kindle, some say it’s game over for Amazon’s e-Reader. But according to industry watchers, it’s still only the first quarter. In Amazon’s earnings release, Bezos threw a spotlight on the “millions of people” who own the e-Reader, adding, “When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle [...]
Touch-Screen for Kindle?
In a move to possibly trump a major feature of the new Apple iPad, Amazon recently acquired Touchco, which focuses on developing touch-screen technology. This may lead Kindle into an entirely new display system, user friendly for, among other things, reference materials, entertainment functions, and color displays. (NYT 4 Feb 2010).
The Nook: EW’s hands-on review of the new e-reader
Is Barnes and Noble’s Nook this year’s Kindle killer? Nearly: The sleek e-reader offers some notable improvements, but it’s still plagued by problems common to the Kindle and similar devices. Perhaps that’s not a ringing endorsement, but don’t close the book on the Nook just yet. Look and feel: At just under 12 oz., the Nook weighs about [...]
Nook E-Reader Promises, But Doesn’t Deliver
6/10 from Wired: The Barnes & Noble Nook is, in fact, a handsome device, close to the Kindle in size but with far cleaner lines and a less cluttered look. But that’s where the Nook’s radical innovation ends. For the most part, the rest of the device is a Kindle clone with a few minor, [...]
My Nook tryout at the local B&N: A sluggish e-reader with confusing navigation
Teleread’s Jean Kaplansky has a review of the Nook. Jean is an XML pro and violin-lover who lives in upstate New York with her husband, three dogs and five cats. “I’ve been doing the e-book thing,” Jeans writes, “since the emergence of Peanut Reader for the Palm way back in the ‘90s.” Why not visit [...]
Kindle Vs. Nook? Kindle Wins (for now)
Kindle Vs. Nook? at least today the Kindle wins, with the initial reviews of the Nook not flattering. On ZDnet “Pogue just killed B&N’s Nook“: I have to agree with Pogue’s verdict on the Nook. What we have here is a device that exists as a knee-jerk reaction to Amazon’s Kindle, and the shortfalls show [...]
Barnes & Noble Nook E-Reader
Here are parts of the Nook’s review on PC Magazine that gave the Nook 4/5 stars: The Barnes and Noble Nook E-Reader ($259 direct) will be difficult, perhaps even impossible, to find this holiday season, and that’s a real shame. With a clever second display that acts as a touch-screen interface, a huge library of [...]
