Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
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Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
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Re: Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
#2Wow. Good job BN. The thing looks well designed and fairly solid.
-1 on the ATT 3G but you can't have the best of everything.
Re: Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
#3The touchscreen on the bottom and the book sharing are huge advantages. This is the first eBook reader that I actually would consider buying because of those two things.
I'm not sure why no one's done free book sharing. It's the ultimate way to encourage people to tell their friends about the product.
What I'm curious about is the book buying. Based on the video, you have to use that tiny screen at the bottom to buy books. Hope I'm wrong..
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#4The responsive color screen has a lot of potential. If one could have a "Cover Flow" style browsing mode, this would make the Nook a 10X better device for browsing reference material and other kinds of not-purely-linear reading. Others on HN have lamented the lack of "flippability" in other e-readers. This could be used to provide exactly that!
(The other thing: will B&N allow it to happen?)
Re: Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
#5The touchscreen on the bottom and the book sharing are huge advantages. This is the first eBook reader that I actually would consider buying because of those two things. I'm not sure why no one's done free book sharing. It's the ultimate way to encourage people to tell their friends about the product. What I'm curious about is the book buying. Based on the video, you have to use that tiny screen at the bottom to buy…
>I'm not sure why no one's done free book sharing.
Because sharing things you have bought is the same as terrorism or murdering kittens - the ad at the beginning of the DVD told me that
Remember before reading Goldilocks and the three bears to your kid from your ebook you need to buy an extra client access license and a public performance license
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#6According to http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/nook-official/, wifi only works in B&N stores. If that is the case, it can't compete with Kindle 2 internationally.
Can anyone confirm this?
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#7I assume those of us living in the ice covered wasteland to the North will never get this.
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#8According to http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/nook-official/ , wifi only works in B&N stores. If that is the case, it can't compete with Kindle 2 internationally. Can anyone confirm this?
That seems to contradict the wording on B&N.
“Browse eBooks, magazines and newspapers on AT&T's 3G Wireless Network or on Wi-Fi. And every Barnes & Noble has free Wi-Fi, so you can connect at lightning fast speeds.”
Sounds like B&N is just marketing their Wi-Fi hotspots as a convenience, but it doesn’t need to be their hotspots; any Wi-Fi connection should do.
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#9Definitely a great entrant into the market, and I'm hopeful that Amazon will step it up in response. Two things in particular that I'd like to see from Amazon are integrated access to public domain works (perhaps via a deal with Gutenberg or Google), and the ability to lend books to a friend. What's nice is that neither of these would require anything other than a free over-the-air update.
Re: Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader
#10The responsive color screen has a lot of potential. If one could have a "Cover Flow" style browsing mode, this would make the Nook a 10X better device for browsing reference material and other kinds of not-purely-linear reading. Others on HN have lamented the lack of "flippability" in other e-readers. This could be used to provide exactly that! (The other thing: will B&N allow it to happen?)
> this would make the Nook a 10X better device for browsing reference material and other kinds of not-purely-linear reading.
Sure, but it seems pretty useless for just plain regular reading.