# Nook vs. Kindle.  Should the status of B&N be a consideration?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nook-vs-kindle-should-the-status-of-b-n-be-a-consideration/805512 "2017-12-29T14:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nook-vs-kindle-should-the-status-of-b-n-be-a-consideration/805512/21 "2017-12-31T20:12:49Z")

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> [@Helena330](#):
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> How old is your Nook?? My old one is more than four years old and I never had to do that. With Overdrive, I was able to download directly onto/from my Nook.

I think it’s newer than four years old. It’s the Nook GlowLight.

Actually, according to Wikipedia, it was released in 2013, so I guess it’s 4-5 years old.

Maybe there’s some way for me to connect it to Overdrive. I’ll do some research, but I can’t even imagine where that functionality would exist on this device – it’s basically a store and a library.

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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nook-vs-kindle-should-the-status-of-b-n-be-a-consideration/805512/22 "2017-12-31T20:24:49Z")

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> [@Helena330](#):
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> How old is your Nook?? My old one is more than four years old and I never had to do that. With Overdrive, I was able to download directly onto/from my Nook.

So, I’m doing more research, and as far as I can tell, you have to follow that procedure for basically all Nook e-ink readers. You may be able to download the book using Adobe Digital Editions and then transfer it manually from Windows, if that’s your preference, but I can’t find anything that says you can transfer library books over the air to your e-ink Nook.

Can you show me otherwise?

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**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nook-vs-kindle-should-the-status-of-b-n-be-a-consideration/805512/23 "2017-12-31T21:41:00Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> …Amazon is the corporate equivalent of a person who lives paycheck to paycheck with nothing in his savings account.

Maybe nothing in savings, but the money is being spent on new revenue generating businesses which is increasing the paycheck every month at an accelerating pace.

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