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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 unveils new Kindle, starting at $139
Just weeks after lowering the price of the Kindle e-book reader from $259 to $189, Amazon unveiled a fully revamped Kindle on Wednesday. It’s sleeker, better looking, easier on the eyes — and starts at $139. This new Kindle, Amazon’s third generation, is smaller by 21 percent, and 15 percent lighter too. It has much [...]
LEAK: The New Nook 1.2 Firmware You’ll See Later Today
Boomnews reports that the new Nook firmware 1.2 update should hit later today. Tweaks include: • Enhanced in-store seamless connectivity to enjoy free Wi-Fi, with More In Store content promotions exclusively for Nook owners • Improved opening of eBooks and ePeriodicals • Improved response to Reading Now and Settings buttons • Current reading page and bookmarks on all [...]
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 [...]
Is Barnes & Noble’s Nook a Kindle killer?
The Nook, billed as the first Android-powered e-book reader, features not only a 6-inch E-ink screen but a color touch screen that allows you to navigate content and also can turn into a virtual keyboard for searches. At launch, no separate Android apps will run on the device, but Barnes & Noble says that one [...]
