#1 Detail: Most people who love reading, love reading on whatever device they get.
#2: This is all cutting-edge tech, which means "buggy as hell and updates every six months change how everything works." All of them have *some* way of sorting ebooks, some more efficient than others; none of them actually work well with large collections. (Over ~2000 books.)
#3: The companies that make the hardware & software seem to be under the delusion that all their readers will be buying, at new-book prices, all the ebooks they read. And they will all be novel-length or longer. This includes the handful of companies that *advertise* access to Google's 2 million free public domain works, and the ones who sell lots of short stories.
They are all confused at the idea of "I want to have 3000 tiny ebooks on my reader; how can I flip through them other than alphabetically 10 on a page?"
KINDLE is tied to Amazon's super-sleazoid ethics, and can't read epub, which is (1) carried by more places and (2) objectively, a more versatile/better format. (However. The "better" levels are pretty invisible for standard novels.) Kindle comes with a decent web browser (best, AFAIK, among e-ink readers), lots of upgrades, and Amazon nifties of various sorts.
NOOK has two entirely different devices, the e-ink and Nook Color. B&N wants you to think these are two versions of the same thing. I suppose they are, if you think a VW bug & VW bus are kinda the same thing with a few different features. I'm blurry on the exact advantages of either Nook (other than the e-ink being the only device that reads ereader PDB, which I love despite its obsolescence).
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#2: This is all cutting-edge tech, which means "buggy as hell and updates every six months change how everything works." All of them have *some* way of sorting ebooks, some more efficient than others; none of them actually work well with large collections. (Over ~2000 books.)
#3: The companies that make the hardware & software seem to be under the delusion that all their readers will be buying, at new-book prices, all the ebooks they read. And they will all be novel-length or longer. This includes the handful of companies that *advertise* access to Google's 2 million free public domain works, and the ones who sell lots of short stories.
They are all confused at the idea of "I want to have 3000 tiny ebooks on my reader; how can I flip through them other than alphabetically 10 on a page?"
KINDLE is tied to Amazon's super-sleazoid ethics, and can't read epub, which is (1) carried by more places and (2) objectively, a more versatile/better format. (However. The "better" levels are pretty invisible for standard novels.) Kindle comes with a decent web browser (best, AFAIK, among e-ink readers), lots of upgrades, and Amazon nifties of various sorts.
NOOK has two entirely different devices, the e-ink and Nook Color. B&N wants you to think these are two versions of the same thing. I suppose they are, if you think a VW bug & VW bus are kinda the same thing with a few different features. I'm blurry on the exact advantages of either Nook (other than the e-ink being the only device that reads ereader PDB, which I love despite its obsolescence).