# Kindle Fire or Nook?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-fire-or-nook/642202>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 26, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-fire-or-nook/642202 "2012-11-26T21:24:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-fire-or-nook/642202/21 "2012-12-01T02:15:59Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Thanks, Mama!
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> What about my question about the Carousel? Do you know anything about that?

No clue, sorry - I have a Nook (I was purchasing back before Kindle offered sharing and library borrowing).

If the trick with the iPhone works, you can always re-link that to the account afterward - there will be times when you don’t want to lug the ereader with you and it’s nice to have a few books on the phone (I have some on my Droid and my iPod Touch).

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-fire-or-nook/642202/22 "2012-12-02T03:26:56Z")

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On my Kindle for Mac, I have my books grouped into collections (basically, by genre). I found some on line instructions to import those collections to other devices, but I can’t seem to find the indicated menus. Is this functionality no longer supported?

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kindle-fire-or-nook/642202/23 "2012-12-04T22:10:12Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Oh, and two more questions:
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> 1. Is there any way to get Kindle edition purchases on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) to go into a shopping cart instead of 1-click instant purchasing? If I’m buying multiple stuff, I like to see the entire order all together before I purchase rather than buying them one-at-a-time in a series.

Doesn’t exist, I’m afraid. Many other people want a shopping cart for Kindle; perhaps Amazon will listen.

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> 1. Whenever I make a Kindle edition purchase on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), I have to make sure that I change the drop-down menu to deliver to my Kindle, because it defaults to deliver to my Iphone. Is there any way to change the default?

Change your Kindle’s name to something that comes alphabetically earlier than “I” to put it in front of your iPhone.

Right now my Fire HD is “Hominem Unius Libri Misereo”, roughly translated as “I pity the man of a single book.” But I’m not very good at Latin, so I’m probably wrong.

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