Introducing Nook, the most advanced ebook reader

Post by inklesspen » Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 11:45 PM UTC

mattmcknight wrote: post #20

martingordon wrote: post #12

I bought a refurb Kindle 2 29 days ago and am a click away from returning it and pre-ordering a Nook. I haven't bought any books on the Kindle yet (I'm working through a copy of Atlas Shrugged I downloaded, a book I own and isn't available in Kindle format), but it struck me that if I had, those books would be completely useless on the new reader and not only that, I can't sell them or give them away. The publishers…

The purported "loan to a friend" feature of the Nook does sound a bit Zune-like. It's unlikely that there will be a DRM free approach, but I've seen notably less hacking on the Amazon format than on AAC. Perhaps since the decryption doesn't happen on a general purpose computer, it's harder to crack. Or maybe crackers don't read books?

The Kindle DRM is trivially broken. Kindle ebooks are basically just Mobipocket ebooks.

Post by stcredzero » Thu, Oct 22, 2009, 1:35 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #31

mattmcknight wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean having the nearby pages in your current book show at the bottom of the screen? That would be nice, since e-ink is a bit slow to refresh. I don't see much in point in the way it's pictured on the site though and in the video, shopping for books by flipping through book covers is highly inefficient! Overall, I lament the lack of a keyboard. Searching for books using the Kindle is probably better.

That's silly... it would use up lots of battery, defeating half the point of eInk.

When I'm using the thing for reference, having only 1/10th or even 1/20th of the battery power is just fine! When I'm at my desk programming, I can probably have the thing plugged in. Even if I'm being a musician and using it as a "starter" or a fake book, I can probably have it plugged in. In that context, 4 hours of battery is usually plenty, anyhow.

Also, in this "reference" mode, the system could turn off the 2nd display until it's actually touched.

The way this flip thing would work, is that you would fade from the "cover-flow" animation to a larger, scrollable image of the text. Flicking to the side would fade you back into the cover-flow animation. It would be better if the whole display were used, but the smaller horizontal slice of a page would work too.

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