TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

Andrew Wiley wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 23:55:40 PDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Charles Hixson <
> charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Considering that Amazon has the proven capability of removing a book from
>> your Kindle after you've bought it, I don't expect that I'll EVER decide to
>> invest in a Kindle.  Some other e-book reader is a possibility.  The Nook
>> has certain interesting features, and there's one that would be a good
>> choice if it weren't twice as expensive as the competition.
>>
>
> I own an original basic Nook, and I'm very satisfied. One of the cool
> things for people that like messing with these things is that the Nook is
> running Android, deep deep down, so I can install custom apps and WPA
> Supplicant configs to get on my University Wifi. I can literally drop PDFs
> and EPUBs (and probably a bunch of other formats I haven't had to use) onto
> the Nook with no external applications and have them detected and available
> for reading.
>
> The Nook simple touch (the new basic one) is also very appealing. I've seen
> it in stores, and it feels a lot more like a paperback.
>
> On the other hand, the Nook Color has Angry Birds. I can't argue with that
> :D
>

Also, the E-Ink Nook is the same price as the Kindle.
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