My uncle got a Nook for Christmas, and asked me some questions about it last night. I’m a Kindle girl, and don’t know much about the Nook, but I figured someone here could help me out.
1 - can he download/listen to podcasts on his Nook? Specifically NPR podcasts.
2 - where’s the best places to get deals on Nook books? I seem to recall people mentioning that B&N had daily or weekly deals. He’d be looking mostly for nonfiction, history, literary fiction, by major publishing houses.
3 - anything else cool about the Nook I should tell him?
I have Color, and I believe the only difference between Color and tablet is that the tablet has an Android OS installed (so it can use Android apps). Either way, I can listen to podcasts on my Color, so the up-market tablet should be the same.
The only question, I think, is how you load them; you can either drag and drop them manually, or I read somewhere there’s a way to use iTunes to do it.
I browse Nook’s weekly deals, which mostly suck since I don’t read a lot of popular fiction. Still, even popular non-fiction hits sometimes.
If he got the tablet, “anything else cool” just expanded to the whole universe of Android apps, so that’s a loaded question.
You can download the podcast to your computer, plug in the Nook, then drag and drop it to a folder on your Nook. You can use iTunes and iTunes agent. If you’re on a WiFi network, you can probably directly download or stream the podcast. Note I’ve never tried any of these on mine, I’m just going by a quick search and what I know of the Nook.
The Color also runs Android. In fact, it is supposed to get updated to also run Netflix and some other things like the Tablet though the hardware in the Tablet makes it better for such things.
I guess what I’m looking for specifically is deals for the Nook for current, in-print books, similar to the various deals that Amazon offers for the Kindle, like the daily deal. Is there really nothing out there from Barnes and Noble that’s similar?
If not, that’s certainly a selling point for the Kindle over the Nook. I’m constantly picking up good deals on their Deal of the Day site and their monthly 100 or so books they offer for less than $3.99.
Also check to see if the local library has e-books. My library doesn’t have everything I want as an e-book, but they have enough that I could easily have enough to read without buying a single book. I mostly read library books and only buy under certain circumstances.
They’ve been slowly moving apps onto the Color, but it’s not running an Android version that gives you access to the marketplace…so it only counts in a technical rather than practical sense. At some point I keep meaning to root Honeycomb onto it, but haven’t gotten around to it.
