Can I read Amazon books on the nook?
I was tricked into buying a shiny new Kobo e-reader today. Following this thread certainly inspired me, and it was 150 bones Canadian with 100 classics on it. Plus the PDFs I’ve added onto it that I need for school readings have made it more than worth its cost, IMO. If I had this last year, I would have saved about 80 bucks worth of photocopies.
This is going to be a real hail mary of a question, but has anyone, one some odd and freak chance, come across any Hungarian language e-books? Preferably of the public domain variety? I’m thinking an e-reader might just be the perfect present for grandma when her birthday comes up!
Omgz!! U r 2 kewl! <3
Seriously, thanks so much!
Ditto what RandMcnally said - if I buy a nook, can a buy and read Kindle books from Amazon?
No, you can not read eBooks in the Amazon proprietary format on a Nook. Similarly you can not read Nook format books on a Kindle. At least not natively, there may be hacks and conversion software out there.
I’ve been coveting a Kindle since they first came out; but I have a question that I didn’t see answered here.
I download audiobooks from the library onto my iPod. Can I download ebooks from the library for free on either a Kindle or Nook, or am I forced to buy them? I read a book per week, and I don’t read them twice, so I visit my library regularly and rarely shop a bookstore. I don’t want to buy an ereader and then find out I have to spend $20 per week on books to read on it. Do either Kindles or Nooks allow free library downloads?
@DivineComedienne - the Nook does.
For what it’s worth, I just returned my nook. I liked it well enough, but I wasn’t blown away by it. I got tired of finding ebooks on Amazon but not having them on Barnes and Noble. I also didn’t like how sluggish the nook was. It’d take a second or two to just turn a page, actually searching for a book to buy took a lot longer.
I’da been fine with it if the Kindle 3 wasn’t coming out so soon. Every review I’ve read said that the Kindle 3 and the nook aren’t even in the same league. Kindle 2 and nook were comparable, and the Kindle 3 and nook 2 may have been, but seeing as how rumors haven’t even been substantiated means I shouldn’t hold my breath for it.
I alluded to this in my earlier post, but I’m really liking my new Kobo, which seems to be the third (or fourth) option in the e-reader market. It’s the cheapest, and lowest tech model of all the ones I’ve seen, but it’s not like I was going to ever use a keyboard on mine, or buy books via 3G anyway!
This to me is actually the biggest issue with the kindle. Most libraries seem to have their collections in protected pdf or epub format. While you can read (with some conversion for epub) the unprotected forms of these on a kindle, there is no way to read the protected formats. Amazon is basically trying to control the format war, and in this regards at least is losing. As someone else mentioned I believe you can do so on the Nook. Check your local libraries collection before you jump in though. My library has a huge collection of downloadable audio books, but their selection of ebooks sucks.
Has anyone tried subscribing to newspapers? If so, how does it compare with the real thing?
Stupid question, but the Kindle 2 that everyone is referring to is the very new one?
No, the Kindle 2 we’ve been discussing is the current generation that’s been out for a while. The new Kindles with the lower prices ship at the end of this month, I believe. You can pre-order them now on Amazon.
So what’s it called? Kindle 3?
According to Ireader Review Barnes and Noble has put itself up for sale and it’s up in the air on who is going to buy it.
So yeah, I’d strongly suggest the Kindle 3 at this point.
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On their website it’s called “Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6” Display, Graphite - Latest Generation". It’s not (as of yet) called the Kindle 3.
It’s called the new Kindle, but everyone has just been calling it Kindle 3 for ease of understanding.
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I prefer my title: much snappier!
My Kindle 3 (WiFi+3G) was delivered yesterday, so I spent yesterday evening getting used to it. This is my first eReader.
Thus far my only complaints are ones that will likely lessen with familiarity: the keyboard buttons are small, which is OK by itself, but the small keys require that the characters printed on them be small. Under low-to-medium light and with tired eyes (as one might have while, say, reading in bed), some of the keys are nigh-on-impossible to see their labels, such as the Font key. Too, I often found myself accidentally changing pages simply because I tended to hold the thing by the center-edges, which is where the page-turner buttons are. Once I become more familiar with the device, I hope these complaints fade.
I took it to work today, and it was a BIG hit. A Chinese-speaking cow-orker, who was somewhat skeptical when I first ordered it last month, was convinced within 5 minutes to buy one, for two reasons: it supports Chinese characters, and with the 3G and built-in Web browser, he could get at least basic access to Web sites. This was demonstrated by him going to several Chinese Web sites and having the content displayed appropriately, all using the 3G connection.
After I ordered my Kindle, I also published a couple of books for the Kindle, mostly as a learning exercise. All-in-all, not a bad experience.
From the top, since I’m getting one soon… what can you do with a Kindle besides read books? What are the good hacks? It can really surf anywhere?