ORIGINAL: Nikademus
ack.....decisions decisions.
Sooner or later i gotta get one. If for the fact that the Kindle DX is so freakin expensive i might go with that. A 9.7 eInk Pearl screen is good for both hardbacks and even textbooks, assuming they ever put such tombs as Lacroix or Friedman in electronic format.
The color Nook is better than the 6in readers which are good for paperbacks only. It's 7.1 inches but even the sales staff admits that the color Nook is aimed mainly at kids and magazine readers who want to have internet access and play games. I want a reader. HOWEVER....i like the color screen better for highlighting vs. eInk. god.....tearing my hair out [:)]
Not true on the Color Nook marketing focus. It's not a toy. It IS better suited to periodicals because of its color qualities, but reading novels or large books is just fine on it...I'm about a third of the way through "Dead or Alive" by Tom Clancy and just finished up with "With the Old Breed: on Pelileu and Okinawa" by E.B. Sledge in its entirety. The Color Nook has been fine with both.
One very clear difference: battery life. The Kindle screen only draws power when you change a page. Battery life is quite inpressive. The Color Nook is backlit, so it draws power faster. I can get 6-8 hours of use between recharges, but my wife goes days on end without having to recharge her Kindle.
