nook or kindle?
 

I want to get an ebook reader, my friend has a kindle keyboard 3g, its amazing.. except the keyboard, I like more the touch feature.. so I'll wait for november 21 when amazon will release the kindle touch 3g... any reason why I should buy the B&N Nook instead?

The Kindle Fire has pretty much identical specs as the year old Nook Color. I've got a Nook that we've turned into a full on Android tablet. It runs all the latest 3D games and has no issue playing 720p videos either.

I believe that B&N will be announcing a Nook Color 2 in the next week or so.

I'd at least hold off and see what they announce.

I was thinking to get a B&W reader, I saw the kindle and I like the e-ink technology a lot... I won't use it for browsing, maybe just to read e-mails... the kindle has also free 3G accross 100 countries ( I've read amazon made some deals with mobile operators) , sounds way more tempting for me, I'll drop roaming traffic costs :)

I remember you mentioning something about hacking that Nook. How's that working for you? Which version of Android did you load into it and how's battery life?

I would get the Fire, it looks pretty sweet and very affordable. The shaping of it seems kind of odd, but other than that, totally bad ass.

Fire seems ok but :
- no free 3G
- no eink : you charge eink reader once / 3 weeks , eink looks very comfortable (I plan to use it 90% for reading) and has 0 glare even in full sunlight.

Fire is good to be used as a tablet rather than ebook reader.

I have a Kindle, works great .

It's running Cyanogenmod 7 at the moment. It's overclocked and still lasts the entire day with my kids spending most of the day fighting over it.

It's a great little tablet, but after lucking out and scoring a bunch of the HP $99 firesale tablets (which is also running CM7)...I much prefer the larger size.

What about Sony PRS-T1 ???

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I'm waiting for this one as soon as it's available in Hungary.

I was asleep at the wheel when those HP's went on sale. I still might do the Nook though as I need something small. I have a 7" Samsung Galaxy that my wife confiscated. I also have a Kindle for reading. I'm going to see what everyone thinks of the new Kindle Fire as well.

Nook and Kindle are pretty similar now days...
Only reason to choose one over the other is availability of books..
Kindle reads Mobi.
Nook reads Epub. Apple, Sony + libraries use Epub.

If you know how to de-drm them, you can convert them to either format easily. Otherwise you're stuck reading on the proprietary hardware.

the kindle fire looks to have a more powerful processor compared to the nook
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...id=5spj9hgKuir

The Nook (and I'm guessing the Fire) are pretty much the same as the 7in Galaxy Tab, just half the price.

If you like the size of that one, the Nook/Fire will be right up your alley.

With an added year to get to market, I would expect that.

The deal with the Nook is that it is easily hackable and available now. Mine is overclocked at 1.2 ghz and it's a speed little gadget.

There's this amazing WOW clone from Gameloft called Order and Chaos. The Nook has no problem running this game. It impresses me each time I use it.

But it's still no $99 HP Touchpad.

I currently have the HP Touchpad that sold for $99 a little while back. I have the kindle and another ebook reader apps and it works great. That said, it is limited so I might end up getting the Kindle Fire which looks great. I am going to wait until they announce the specs of the new Nook color though.

If I had to buy one today. I would pre-order the Kindle Fire which will be available in a few weeks.

You can install Android on them right now. The alpha version that has already been released has been running on mine error free for the better part of a week now.

I have a Dual Boot set up and can choose to boot into Android or back into WebOS. It's pretty cool, and all in all much better hardware compared to both the Nook and Kindle.

If you want to trade, I'll send you my Nook for your Touchpad. :winkwink:

I got your points but again : I don't need power, I just read articles, books etc on it... no need for gaming, browsing... just e-mails and books
tom21220: the sony looks very stylish and the price is very good ( I expected $300+ from sony) however I'm kind of sold on the free 3G the kindle has...
I remember I paied over 50 euro for mobile internet last time I was in switzerland, just for getting e-mails ( server push option enabled on the iphone ) .. fuckers

Nook does not allow downloads for international owners. Must use hotspot shield- super annoying- go with kindle