ebook readers and price drops

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by sad_winslow

Good points. The color thing on the nook I always thought was a little stupid. It does, however, take SD cards, and I like the chess and sudoku built in. but the keyboard on the kindle does have some interest for me, too. I can't decide if I should just save up for an iPad instead(or equivalent, cheaper tablet later), or skip the whole thing entirely. Also one thing I don't like about the e-books often for sale as a whole is that they're either free "classics" that i've already ready from project gutenberg a billion times, or they're like.. the stuff you buy in airports. super lame. i'm still torn. a big draw, though, is as a portable PDF reader. I like white papers/research papers a lot.

I have a nook. I like it a lot. (I bought it before the recent price drops... yay me!!) I expect there will be more applications than chess and sudoku floating around, as it's built on the Android platform. (If you're willing to violate the innocence of your OS to gain root access, this is already possible. There is a simple, but workable, Twitter client, and the Android version of Pandora will run with some hoop-jumping.)

The touch-screen keyboard takes some getting used to. It is IMO not as easy to use as the one on the ipod touch. However, I like it a ton better than I like the buttons on the Kindle, which I have had a chance to try out.

By all accounts the current version of the Nook handles PDFs better than the current version of the Kindle.

I've also tried the ipad at the Apple Store. The ipad vs. the electronic ink-based things (Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, etc.)... you're really talking about different animals.

ETA: No, of course I didn't read the whole thread before I posted.