The Nook Vs Kindle 3 Vs Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-350: And the Winner Is?

If you are hunting down the best eBook reader, then it makes sense to take a look at the top 3 eBook readers on the market, the Nook, Kindle 3, and Sony Reader. The New Sony Reader PRS-350 is the most comparably priced with the Kindle 3 and Nook, and that's why we'll include it here in this comparison. Which is best? Let's take a look.

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The Barnes and Noble Nook-

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The Nook was released last fall and has undergone a major upgrade in software since in late April. There are 2 versions available for purchase, the WiFi only (9) and the WiFi +3G (9).

The Kindle 3-

The Kindle 3 is Amazon's latest release of their flag-ship product. Like the Nook, there are 2 versions available for purchase, the WiFi only (9) and the WiFi + 3G (9).

The Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-350-

This is Sony's newest model of eBook reader that is comparably priced to the Nook and Kindle (9).

Let's take a look at how features compare with the Nook Vs Kindle 3 Vs Sony Reader.

Memory

Nook- 1,500 books (expandable with SD card)

Kindle 3- 3,500 books (standard)

Reader- 1,200 books (standard)

We can see that the Kindle's standard memory is quite a bit larger than the other two brands. However, for the cost of an SD card, the Nook's memory can be expanded.

Weight

Nook- 12.1 ounces WiFi +3G and 11.1 ounces WiFi

Kindle 3- 8.7 ounces WiFi +3G and 8.5 ounces WiFi

Reader- 5.47 ounces

Dimensions

Nook- 7.7? x 4.9? x 0.5?

Kindle 3- 7.5? x 4.8? x 0.335?

Reader- 5.75? x 4.125? x.34?

The Nook seems to be the "big boy" on the block with its weight heavier and dimensions larger than the other two eBook readers.

Reading Display Screen

Nook- 6" diagonal E-Ink screen.

Kindle 3- 6" diagonal E-Ink screen.

Reader- 5" diagonal E-Ink screen.

Obviously the smallest of these three devices is the Sony Reader, and it translates into a smaller reading screen.

Navigation of Content

Nook- 1" color navigation screen. Push buttons for page turn.

Kindle 3- Push button technology- keyboard and page turn buttons.

Sony Reader- Touch screen navigation and page turn. Home, Page Turn, Zoom, Options push buttons.

Battery Life

Nook- 10 days with wireless off

Kindle 3- 30 days with wireless off

Reader- 14 days

You can see that the Kindle 3 has quite a lot more reading time for one battery charge. This is partly due to the fact that it doesn't utilize touch screen technology. It should also be noted that an AC adapter for the Sony Reader is considered an accessory and costs extra.

Wireless Options

Nook- WiFi only or WiFi +3G (no plans needed)

Kindle 3- WiFi only or WiFi + 3G (no plans needed)

Sony Reader- No Wireless

The big elephant in the room here is, why does the Sony Reader PRS-350 not have wireless?

Conclusion

It boils down to what is important to you in an eBook reader. If you want an extremely small device that is ultra-portable, then perhaps the Sony Reader PRS-350 is for you. But you'd better be fine with downloading your books and content from the computer and transferring it, since wireless is not available.

If you want a little color in your device, wireless downloading, and want a touch screen option, then the Nook is probably a good choice for you. Barnes and Noble has also just announced it allows a Nook owner up to 1 hour of reading of any eBook in the store for a perk.

The Kindle 3 is a small, compact, wireless option with robust features. This will be a good idea for the reader who wants a simple device and wants to save as much money as possible.

The Nook Vs Kindle 3 Vs Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-350: And the Winner Is?

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Handheld Ebook Reader Wars - eReader Formats Or eReader Discount

It is becoming increasingly clear that the big battle, in the handheld ebook reader war, is going to be more about eReader formats than eReader discounts.

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Look at the facts. The Nook (Barnes and Noble) and the Daily Edition (Sony), recent releases in to the wireless section of the market, were in danger of cleaning up the very important Christmas sales. But, and it pains me to say it, they have given the Kindle a way back in the short term anyway.

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The Nook and the Daily Edition, in fact the whole Sony range, have taken the massive step to include support not only for the Adobe PDF standard but also for the emerging ePub file format. When put like that, it does not seem that important but let me explain further without getting overly technical.

eReader formats allow the handheld ebook reader to handle (read) a specific file format. Perhaps the most common or recognizable to everyone would be the mp3 format. This is an audio format, so if your reader handles.mp3 you can play that format, not the best example I grant you but incidentally most devices do handle mp3. Now two formats that are popular not only for free content but as importantly used by online book stores to distribute text based content, are the.pdf and.epub formats.

It makes sense then, if you want to take advantage of the vast amount of public domain (free) content, that your device has support for these file formats. And you would assume also that manufacturers would be keen to give you these, after all without them you can not shop about for your content. But you may be surprise to learn this was not always the case. Both Sony and the Amazon Kindle started out using proprietary (their own protected) file formats, Sony used the.lrf extension and Amazon the.azw format. Neither offered the.pdf format and the Amazon Kindle offered the mobi pocket format, if you wanted.pdf support you had to turn over the extra to purchase the DX. Sony soon caught up from catching a cold, realized the error of their ways and released a free software update for their prs505 reader.

Then came the second generation handheld ebook readers. Kindle led the way, back in February 09, when they released their Kindle 2. More of an update than anything ground breaking really and again no natural support for ePub or surprisingly the Adobe PDF standard, opting instead to stick with mobi pocket for free content and once again, disappointing, their proprietary AZW standard.

Fast forward then to the back end of the summer, and in the midst of Amazon starting to offer eReader discounts, Sony unveiled their new Edition range. ePub and PDF support, matching Amazon the price of best sellers and increasing the number of titles available at the Sony Book Store. They also offered an entry level model packed with those features for an incredible 9.

Then hard on Sony's heels and later in the year Barnes and Noble brought out the Nook. Wireless connectivity, touch enabled navigation screen and importantly for consumers, epub and pdf support. Brave move as B&N are the biggest high street bookstore and make their money selling books and here they are saying go buy your books from any place you like.

I hope you can see now how it is very important to know which ereader formats are supported by the handheld ebook reader you're thinking of purchasing. Yes price is important, and a trip over to my ebook reader review site will help you in that area, but don't fall in to the trap of purchasing on the size of ereader discount given by the manufacturer over the ereader formats your chosen device will support.

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Barnes & Noble Nook Reader Review - Is the Nook E-Reader Better Than Kindle?

I spend a lot of time browsing shops in Orlando because, well, that's where I live, and book stores are high on my list of fun places to shop and while away some hours. The other day I was meeting my mom for lunch and decided to drop in to Barnes & Noble since I don't have one close to my house. As I was checking out with my purchases, the cashier mentioned that the store would be debuting the new nook reader which is an electronic reading device "gadget."

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This caught my attention because I had just been considering putting the Kindle on my Christmas list this year. You know how it is when you log into Amazon, you always see the advertisements for their electronic reader right in your face, and eventually you become brainwashed where you suddenly decide you MUST have one of those (insert name of new gadget here). That's what happened to me with Kindle I think. And I'll be honest with you, I really didn't know a whole lot about it.

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So when I heard about the nook reader that B&N is about to unveil, I asked the check-out lady a few questions and then when I got home I decided to check it out on the website. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it actually appears to have more features than Kindle.

So here's the lowdown. They both have 6-inch screen displays so they are easy to read, you can adjust the text size with both devices, and both of them feature 2 GB memory, ability to browse and shop for ebooks, speakers, headphone jack, rechargeable battery, comparable weight, software updates, quick page turn by hard key, synchronized last page read between devices, and ability to read your books on multiple devices.

But, here's what you get on the nook reader that is not available on the "other reader." Color touch screen, touch control and navigation ability, library view by book cover, Wi-Fi, free Wi-Fi in Barnes & Noble stores, expandable memory, more than a million titles, more than half a million free ebooks, exclusive content at B&N, directly load and read PDF's (very helpful), synchronized notes between devices, "LendMe technology" which is where you can share books between nook, iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, PC, and Mac, and a replaceable battery.

Sounds good, right? I was impressed. In addition, and this is really key, you can go into Barnes and Noble and try out the nook in person. You can hold it in your hands. Studies have shown that this is key in allowing buyers to make a decision on a purchase. You can sell a lot more when the person can touch as well as see.

I have to say I'm really interested in the nook reader and to be honest, I think it really wins in the head-to-head battle with Kindle by a landslide. Of course, I have not tried out the actual device yet but it will be in stores at the end of November (so I was told). So if you are considering an E-reader you should check out the nook when it becomes available, either for yourself or maybe as a gift.

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A Comprehensive Guide to the Barnes & Noble E-book Reader Nook

Amazon Kindle is one of the dominating products in e-book readers' market. But with the launch of Barnes & Noble e-book reader Nook one this is sure that Amazon Kindle is going to get a tough competition. These two and other e-book readers available on the market provide more or less the same features to the users. Some of the features which a user normally looks for before buying an e-book reader are - wireless connectivity, internal storage, Internet access etc. all these features are available in Barnes & Noble Nook, but there are some additional ones available too. These additional features provided by Barnes & Noble Nook are the main reasons to make it a huge success in a short duration of time. Here we will talk about some of those additional features.

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The best feature offered by Barnes & Noble Nook is its touch sensitive color display. Like Amazon Kindle Nook also uses e-link display technology to give its readers a real time experience. But the input method available in Nook is a touch screen. You can type your bookmarks using this on screen keyboard and being a gadget freak like me you are definitely going to enjoy this feature. Another feature which Nook offers is its WiFi receiver. This feature certainly fills in the gaps in the service provided by the AT&T. To use this WiFi facility all you need to do is to type in your network provider's name and the encryption method used. All these information can be typed in using the on screen keyboard only.

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As already said Barnes & Noble Nook also offers the features available in most of the e-book readers. But being priced at 9 and having some more advanced features made it a huge success in the market. During the first month of launch, Barnes & Noble Nook went out of stock in many stores just like Amazon Kindle did. This clearly explains how users are taking this e-book reader in to account. Whatever new features Barnes & Noble releases in future, Nook is going to stay in the market for a while.

A Comprehensive Guide to the Barnes & Noble E-book Reader Nook

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Sony Reader Review

The Sony Reader has more editions than any other ebook reader. There is the Touch Edition, the Daily Edition, and the Pocket Edition. Read the reviews below and discover the best one for you.

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Sony's biggest competitors are the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook. Take a look at their different editions.

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Touch Edition
The Touch Edition lets you access up to 350 books. And the best feature is the touch screen. It's so easy to navigate.

Daily Edition
The Daily Edition lets you access your books and periodicals wirelessly. But it's the most expensive of the Sony Readers

Pocket Edition
The Pocket Edition has a small 5 inch display which makes it easy to take with you.

The Results
The Sony Reader has 2 major challenges.

You have to connect to a computer to download your books (except for the wireless version) And they support limited file formats so the book you really want to read may not be available

My Choice My choice for an ereader is still the Kindle. And here is why:

Amazon is by far the largest company of all the ebook reader companies They have been pursuing this technology the longest They have the largest number of books You'll be able to buy them in Target

So if you are still on the fence about which one to choose, head over to Amazon and check out the reviews of the Kindle. You won't be disappointed. Or check out my blog at Ebook Reader Reviews Blog.com.

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Digital Book Readers File Formats Information You Won't Find in eBook Reader Reviews

I was recently writing an article about the new Nook and Sony Daily digital book readers ability to handle the ePub standard, a file format that is fast becoming the preferred file format of the eBook publishers. It struck me that it may be helpful if I explained the differences between proprietary formats and the ePub standard, something you will not find in eBook reader reviews, but something you should remember when researching the many digital book readers on the market, prior to your final purchase decision.

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It was, in the early days of digital book readers, somewhat accepted by the buying public that both Sony and Amazon released their content coded in their own file format. What this effectively did was tied the eBook to one device, but it did not take long before customers caught on, something that hit the likes of Sony hard.

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But fast forward to today, the industry had been looking for a standard file format, firstly to remove uncertainty in the customers mind and secondly to do as the title suggests, standardize e-publishing.

It does look more and more like they have settled on the emerging Epub format. Why, you may ask, with so many other options about, have some of the biggest names in the industry thrown their weight behind this new format when there was, some would point out, a perfectly good one in the form of Mobipockets universally available file format. That's really a question only the likes of Google, Sony and now Barnes and Noble can answer.

Looking on from the sidelines, it seems like the three of them have ganged up to deliver a good slapping for Amazon, as their latest offerings - the Kindle US and Kindle International digital book readers - don't have natural support for the ePub standard.

On the other hand the latest Sony Edition Range of digital book readers, which incidentally are receiving some rave eBook reader reviews, and the brand new Barnes and Noble Nook reading device all support the ePub format. Titles at both the Sony-Store and the Barnes and Noble online bookstore will publish in this format, something that both companies are happy to sing the praises of.

Now, throw into the mix the quite considerable influence Google have on everything online and look at their recent backing of the ePub format. They intend to publish the whole of their massive library of over one million books in the ePub format, many of these titles are free to down load.

These developments have opened up the market totally. No longer do users of digital book readers have to purchase content from one source, this move can only lead to greater competition and ultimately lower eBook prices. And the encouraging thing is three massive companies have totally embraced, even instigated, it.

This leaves the Kindle digital book readers in a very difficult position, news travels at the same speed as prices change in this industry. Customers of the Kindle will feel short changed when this news hits the eBook reader review sites, and they every right they have to feel that way too don't you think.

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Nook Color Review - A Look At the New Color Touch Screen Ebook Reader

Barnes and Noble has just released its new Nook Color, so that means it's time for a detailed Nook Color review. Is this a good product or just a strange hybrid between a tablet PC and an ebook reader? Let's take a detailed look at the new product and see what it is all about.

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The "NC" has some very different features that differ from the original Nook, which is still available as a product from B and N.

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The Nook Color Touch Screen- Obviously this is THE major difference between the original and color Nooks. It's equipped with a 7 inch color touch screen with "Vivid View" technology.

This screen is an IPS screen that shows over 16 million colors and allows for up to 178 degrees of viewing. This is the same technology used on the iPad, so if you have seen the iPad screen, then you know how the Vivid View screen looks. It also switches from upright mode to landscape when turning the device 90 degrees.

Social Reading Features- The NC comes with some features that take advantage of social media. You can share thoughts, lines from a book, favorite books, etc, through Facebook and Twitter.

Games and Apps- The NC comes with Sudoku, Chess, and Crossword puzzle games (3 games). Beyond the "Lend Me" and "Nook app" for PC and other phones, etc, Apps are still not a thing of the present with the Nook. But since it uses Google Android technology, there may be some new interest for developers.

Pandora Radio has jumped on the Nook bandwagon and offers their service on the device as well.

Lend Me App- The "Lend-me" app allows owners to lend books to friends and family who also have the app. Access to the app is more readily available to the user with the color touch screen.

Memory- The memory capacity is 8GB which allows for thousands of books, pictures, songs, etc.

Just For Kids- This new Nook section in Barnes and Noble offers a line of books that are for kids that work with the Nook Color. They are interactive to the touch and have the ability to be read to the child by selecting the feature.

Battery Life- The Battery life is only at 8 hours, compared to the 10-14 day battery life of the original Nook with E-Ink display.

Surfing the Web- It also allows for surfing the web (not with 3G, but wirelessly). So you can open the browser to visit sites and check your emails, as well as compose them.

All in all, the new Nook Color reviews well. It's a bold step for Barnes and Noble, and a much needed bold step at that.

Nook Color Review - A Look At the New Color Touch Screen Ebook Reader

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Kindle DX 9.7-inch E-book Reader - The Best Reader For Newspaper and Textbook Readers

The new 9.7-inch e-book reader from Amazon is designed for a specific niche, namely newspapers, textbook and magazine readers. Whilst the smaller Kindle is perfect for reading novels and other paperbacks, it takes a lot of scrolling and navigating for reading newspapers and magazines. Hence, the Kindle DX is released.

The larger Kindle DX enables you to read larger publications with ease, simulating the experience of reading a real newspaper/magazine as closely as possible. This large e-book reader is worth the investment for many reasons.

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For starters, it makes economic sense to start switching to this e-reader. Newspapers, books and magazines that are bought and read through this reader cost only a fraction of the price of physical copies. For instance, the monthly subscription price for the New York Times (for Kindle devices) is just .99. That sums up to just about

Using the Kindle DX for all your reading needs will also be better for the environment in the long run. If everyone in New York city or LA uses a Kindle, hundreds of thousands of tress will be spared from cutting down every year, not to mention the reduction in carbon emissions. If you have the extra cash to spare, there is actually very little reason to hold you back from getting Kindle DX. It is extremely stylish and portable, weighing just 18.9 ounces and measuring just 0.38" in thickness. At the time of writing, this device costs around 9 each.

.50 an issue. Books, magazines and textbooks are also much cheaper if read on the Kindle.

Kindle DX 9.7-inch E-book Reader - The Best Reader For Newspaper and Textbook Readers

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What Features Does the Barnes and Noble Ebook Reader Have?

The Barnes and Noble Nook E Book Reader is one of the latest additions to the huge e book reader market. Barnes and Noble is one of the biggest book store chains in the world. It is a well known chain store that is dedicated to selling books of all manners from the classics to the newest edition novels.

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They have moved toward offering many of their books in online formats because so many people demand the ability to be able to read their books in the easiest format available, so Barnes and Noble responded by producing the Barnes and Noble Nook E Book Reader to meet the consumer demand.

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The Cost

Cost is always an important aspect of purchasing anything it is no different with purchasing an e book reader. Barnes and Noble Nook E Book Reader is a great example of a great device at a fabulous price. The new nook has Wig If capabilities that can be had for around one hundred and fifty dollars. This is a great price for a great device.

The 3 G model is available at approximately two hundred dollars. This is a great price compared to other e readers on the market.

Features

The 3G technology guarantees the perfect speed for the perfect downloads. You can enjoy your favorite books either off or online. The paper like display makes reading your books so much easier.

The display offers the opportunity to really experience a book not feel as if you are reading a web page, but you wind up feeling like you are actually holding a book in your hands. Other features include swipe to browse and one touch control for both audio and contrast.

You can browse your full color library by simply swiping your finger across the slide bars. Your library will be displayed with full color book covers. There are expandable memory storage options as well, to hold up to one thousand five hundred books. The audio is adjustable, and you can choose for a host of covers or skins to protect your e reader.

The Barnes and Noble Nook E Reader is the perfect option for all of your reading needs. It is affordable, looks sleek is easy to carry and performs wonderfully. The affordability makes this the perfect option to buy for you or to give as a gift.

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The Nook Compared to Kindle 2 - How Does Barnes & Noble's eBook Reader Fare?

Do you know that it's not actually Amazon who first released an e-book reader? It was Sony. However, the former is more popular because it's loaded with better features and design. For months, Kindle took the lead-until the Nook came along. Today this product from Barnes & Noble has been dubbed the ultimate Kindle killer. In the question of the Nook compared to Kindle 2, how does the Nook fare?

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Let's start with the physical attributes. In terms of size, Amazon's Kindle 2 is a little smaller than the Nook. It's also lighter at 10 ounces. If portability is an issue for you, you may raise some concerns with Nook.

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Nevertheless, you won't really be ashamed to carry your Nook anywhere you go. It looks very stylish and sleek compared to Kindle 2, which appears to be too stiff for some people's taste.

Both the Nook and Kindle 2 come with an E-ink screen, which means you can have full control over the size of the texts. You can make it smaller or bigger, and glare is drastically reduced.

They also differ in terms of memory and the number of books you can save. Interestingly, both can hold 1,500 e-books simultaneously-but there's a catch. The Nook actually has its own microSD slot, which you can use if you want to download and store more books.

If these weren't enough, you can actually share the titles to your friends and family for 2 weeks. This feature is still in its beta mode, but it's surely one of the best features you can find in B&N's Nook.

When it comes to battery life, there's no doubt that Kindle 2 is the sure winner. If you are a superhuman, you can actually read books in Kindle for 14 consecutive days without recharging. The battery life of Nook is just between 7 and 10 days.

Because Barnes & Noble has been around quite longer than Amazon, it has one of the biggest collections of books to choose from. So far, it has over 1 million titles and 500,000 worth of electronic e-books, which are given for free. Amazon only has around 420,000, though their collection is more varied and suggests e-books based on what the customers like to read.

You can see the Nook gives the Kindle a run for best ebook reader. But are the few features that set the Nook apart from the Kindle 2 enough to choose it instead? That's for you to decide.

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Best eBook Reader For Students, 2011

Today, the eBook reader is ubiquitous. You have the iPad, the Kindle, the Nook, Sony eReader and a host of others. There is an ongoing war between all of these the eReaders for market dominance and kind of set the stage for which one becomes the dominant player in the market. This war has moved into the classroom and the device that becomes accepted as the ideal gadget for the classroom will definitely become the cash cow for the company that owns it. Below are some of the devices that could someday become a part of every students backpack.

The Kindle
Amazon has different varieties of the Kindle that are targeted to different demographics with different price points. The idea is to have a Kindle that will appeal to every segment of the market. Depending on the type, it can hold approximately between 1500 to 3500 books. It can wirelessly connect to the internet and download books. The Kindle can download word documents and PDF wirelessly and so far has been the Jewel of Amazon. It has sold well and a lot of people are happy with its functions.

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The Nook
The Nook is the eReader from Barnes and Noble. Like the Kindle it can also hold about 1500 books, has an excellent color touch screen that is easy on the eyes, and you can download books in seconds to your Nook. It has a unique future that allows users to be able to swap books with friends or with a network they belong to such as a book club.

The Nook also functions as an mp3 player and can be used to listen to audio books. Other futures the Nook has include making notes, highlighting pages, marking text on your pages as you read and looking up words.

The iPad
The iPad is a major game changer in the area of eReaders. With the launch of the iPad Apple put a wrench in the market for other eReaders. It is a full computer that comes as a light and flat gadget. It has a large touch screen color display, a virtual keyboard and a very user friendly interface. When you are reading a book or magazine, the display is very book like and you can actually flip the pages on the screen as you would on a physical book.

Apple has had a long relationship with education as its earlier computers like the MAC have more or less become the standard in schools for decades. They have a huge advantage over other eReader in that this product can easily sync with a student's PC in a plug and play manner. Apple also has the advantage of the iTunes, which is a platform where books, magazines, videos, music and lectures can be easily downloaded.

This gadget connects easily to Apple App store, so that Apps available for the iPhone can be used for it. A good example is the iBook App which is the application that makes it possible for the iPad to function as an eReader. It is predicted that in the next few years, due to its cross functionality as a full fledged personal computer; the iPad will be what will be found in most students back pack.

Carrying textbooks to class each day is one of the biggest problems that students face. With the iPad, more than a truck load of textbooks can be stored in the form of eBooks, freeing up space in the students backpack and preventing back strain. The environment will also benefit as fewer trees will be chopped down to make textbooks and the issue of storage for outdated books will cease to exist.

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Unbiased EBook Reader Device Reviews - My Cool-er EBook Reader Review

In light of the many ebook reader device price cuts that have taken place over the last few months, many of the older ebook reader reviews are out of date. Here's my updated Cool-er ebook reader review brought about not only because of differing prices but also because other changes in the market have left some ebook readers more exposed to the risk of becoming, at best, tied to one source of ebooks or even worse, totally obsolete.

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The one biggest point to remember with ebook reader devices at this present time is the shift in the market place towards a publishing standard. It does seem a safe bet that this standard will become the ePub file format. It is starting to appear on more and more electronic books readers.

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The big e-publishing houses, e-libraries and holders of public domain titles are moving or have moved to publishing in the ePub format. The likes of Barnes and Noble, Powells.com, Waterstones, The Sony Store and Libraries utilizing nascent e-book services have all expressed their willingness to embrace the ePub format.

With that out of the way let's bring smack up to date my Cool-er ebook reader review and have a look to see where it fits in to not just today's market but the market of the future.

The Cool-er has had no feature or specification updates since it's launch earlier this year, nor have I seen any talk of a price reduction at ebook reader reviews. This leaves it in the shadow of a lot of the newer ebook reader device models, in so much as it does not include a wireless connection capability. This said let's just concentrate on what the Cool-er is but bear in mind the price being asked. As "just" a book reader, the Cool-er stands up well.

The screen is of adequate proportions and does score well over many others courtesy of the fact it can be read in landscape as well as portrait mode. It uses the industry standard e-Ink technology, so is easily readable, with crisp, clear text image. The bright, funky colors still remind you very much of the ipod, and will appeal probably more to the younger generation than the 9-5ers.

It has 1gb of internal storage which, through the use of SD cards, can be expanded to infinity. And you might need to do that as the device DOES support both ePub and that other favorite for free stuff, Adobe PDF. Great news when you visit the massive virtual library at Coolerbooks.com, of the 750,000 titles on offer 500,000 are free for you to download, thrillers, fiction, bios, chicklet, kids titles, the whole ensemble.

So what conclusion can be drawn from this Cool-er ebook reader review? It is my opinion this is another of those smaller companies that will struggle to maintain the price they are asking for their ebook reader device. It still smacks one of those gimmicky, cheap Chinese imports that are purchased at Christmas as a "stocking filler" and has none of the build qualities of the better known models. Even though that's how I feel, it still has a place in the market, only not at the current price, which I believe to be 0. Put up the side of the Sony prs-300, which many ebook reader reviews are reporting to be selling as low as 5, it looks terribly over priced.

Unbiased EBook Reader Device Reviews - My Cool-er EBook Reader Review

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Nook Reader - Chasing the Kindle

The Nook reader has one screen for reading your ebooks and the second screen is for navigating through your book collection, other nook options and surfing the web. The first and large screen utilizes the E ink Vizplex technology which is 6″ diagonally with 16 levels of gray at 800 x 600 pixel resolution. The second and smaller screen is a 3.5″ color LCD TFT touch-screen at 480 x 144 pixel resolution. The Kindle 2 uses E Ink paper display at 600 x 800 pixel resolution and also 16-levels of gray scale. The Kindle also navigates the internet but in a more text-centric manner. If you want a little more flexibility with the net the the Nook reader may be the way to go. Although, some folks feel this small screen makes surfing the net a bit awkward.

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The Nook has seen a few firm-ware improvements since it was released on November 30, 2009, with each upgrade making the user's experience better. This shows a real commitment from Barnes and Noble in support of their machine. When the company stands behind their product, I give them extra consideration. Initially, many people were promised delivery dates of Dec 24, 2009 or earlier. All the people who were promised and didn't receive their Nook's til after December 25 ended up getting a 0 gift card from Barnes and Noble. Very cool!

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The Kindle 2 has a text-to-speech feature. Basically the Kindle reads the book to you. Great if you're driving or have to concentrate on other things. The nook reader has an internal memory of 2 GB, expandable to virtually unlimited via the microSD expansion slot. The Kindle, on the other hand is limited to only the 2 GB of internal memory.

With the Amazon Kindle you are limited to what the Kindle store offers, which is a huge amount. Over 510,000 titles. With the Nook you can purchase ebooks from the Barnes and Noble store and download them directly onto the Nook. If you wish you can purchase books from other sources but you must first download them to your computer then to the Nook.

As you can see there are a few differences and it is up to you to figure out which one will work better with your lifestyle. Both ebook readers are excellent machines and will give you good service.

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Kindle Vs Nook - Which One Is the eBook Reader Winner?

The battle between purpose-built, E Ink eBook readers, essentially boils down to the top two competitors: the Amazon.com Kindle, and the Barnes and Noble Nook. Both have very similar stats, and are supported by the nation's two largest book sellers. They both feature black and white E Ink displays for reading, which are as close to reading ink on paper as you can get. The real differences come down to the experience, one takes advantage of a widely used public format and its company's extensive retail chain; the other relies on simplicity, universal access, and an overwhelming volume of content.

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First, let's look at the Nook. Upon initial inspection users will note that instead of physical buttons, the Nook uses a 3.5 inch LCD touchscreen to navigate menus. This setup can be confusing for a beginner. Once one becomes more comfortable with it, they may find that the Nook is quick and more efficient to navigate. The LCD does come at a small price, it's battery life is about half that of the Kindle's. The Nook begins to differentiate itself by supporting the ePub format. Many libraries now offer free downloads of books files in the ePub format. The Nook further differentiates itself by incorporating Barnes and Noble's retail locations. Users who bring their Nooks with them can read any title available for up to one hour per day via in-store WiFi. Users may also lend certain titles to other Nook users for up to 14 days.

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The Kindle is more simplified. It features a physical keyboard on its face along with a directional button to navigate menus.

This serves to be more straightforward for the uninitiated, but it is still more time consuming than the experienced will find the Nook's controls. While both units do offer WiFi and WiFi + free 3G models, only the Kindle allows for web browsing and Wikipedia access via 3G. While the Kindle does not support ePub, it makes up for it with a broader selection of titles.

Amazon features many independent offerings and many titles with expired copyrights are free. The Kindle also has text-to-speech abilities that means any feature-enabled title can become an audiobook. Kindle's 3G service is available for free in over 100 different countries. The Nook can only download new content in the United States, even over WiFi.

With prices being almost equal between the two, its hard to pick a winner. They are both very capable machines, have access to very large sources of content, and are relatively simple to operate. The decision comes down to which differences the user values more. A user who likes the experience of going to a bookstore and browsing books, or frequents a local library, might prefer the Nook. A user who has a voracious appetite for books, and is always on the go, will find the huge selection of Amazon.com and the ability to download almost anywhere in the world, preferable.

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Nook Electronic Book Reader - Review

Nook from Barnes and Noble reads books, newspapers and magazines. The Nook reader has two screens. The larger 6" screen is for reading your books and the second smaller 3.5" touch-screen is for navigation through your book and surfing the web.

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Today's electronic reading devices use e-ink display technology. Electronic ink displays (or e-ink display) look more like a printed page than any other technology and they do not consume a lot of power. However, they are very slow to change from image to image - a typical LCD monitor updates its screen 60 times per second, while a fast e-ink display do so once per second. In addition, electronic ink displays do not show color and do not have back-light. That means e-ink displays are very slow to navigate. The Nook reader solved the problem of the slowness of e-ink displays by including a small, fast, touch-sensitive color screen below the main, 6-inch e-ink display - main 6-inch e-ink display shows the text of a book and the small display offers navigation options such as switching to another book or magazine. When not navigating books, the small touch-screen goes dark to let readers focus on the content and to save battery power.

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The Nook reading device runs Android, Google's operating system written for mobile devices. Android is a favorite operating system of mobile phone manufacturers such as Motorola and HTC because it is open source and can be easily customized.

Many people like walking into a bookstore, sitting there with a cup of coffee and browsing. The Nook book reader lets you do same thing. It takes advantage- of Barnes & Noble's physical store and lets users read entire books for free in-store. None of the Nook's store-less competitors will be able to offer that for a long time.

You can give or lend your regular print books to your friend or family. None of electronic reading devices has not offered that to customers and some readers even have locked down books and made it impossible for users to lend books that they have bought. Nook reader has LendMe feature - Nook users can loan books to friends for two weeks. Lending the book through Nook makes it unavailable to the original owner during those two weeks, but at the end of the two weeks, the book is again available to its owner.

Nook reader has built-in MP3 player and a headphone jack, which works for playing music while you read, or for playing audio-books. You can load the Nook reader with books, PDF files, images and MP3 files.

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E Book Reader Comparison - Color Nook Vs Kindle

Has Barnes and Noble crossed the line? Or, maybe they just moved the line. The brick and mortar book selling behemoth first took on the online book selling Goliath, Amazon, with a head to head clash in the e-commerce book selling platform. Then, when Amazon struck an epic blow in an attempt to control the e-book platform with its proprietary Kindle, B&N struck back with the Nook. Now, it appears to have launched an attack at the Apple I Pad with the new NOOK Color.

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The new Color Nook is by far no means a match for the i Pad, but it could pass for one mortar round lobbed in its direction. Visually it resembles an iPad with its simply smooth exterior and 7" touch screen, but a deeper look inside shows us it still remains a high end e-book reader.

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The NOOK Color does have Wi-Fi networking capability with web surfing functionality, but, in the first generation does not have the 3G wireless capability that other e readers have. I will assume that future generations will have this capability. One nice feature built into the Nook is the ability to share what you are reading with friends on Twitter and Facebook. Many websites now have seamless integration between those social platforms. I glad to see it built into the Nook.

Memory has expanded from its predecessors to 8 GB on board with the usual upgrade in volume using a 32GB mini SD chip. There should be enough memory present to keep even the most voracious reader busy for quite a while. With Nooks Lifetime Library feature, you should never have to worry about the lost investment in your electronic library.

Spice up your new NOOK Color with down loadable apps to increase the total functionality of your machine. Play games, upload and view your Microsoft Office documents, change your desk top image, and even share books amongst friends in your social media network. The sharing is limited though; still not as open as the old tree cut version. It does have audio play back from MP3 format; nothing new there.

It does, though, have the capability to play videos in MP4 format and listen to Pandora internet radio. Just make sure you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot; Remember, no 3G. The lines between e book reader and the PC continue to blur.

The new NOOK Color definitely reaches out further than any other reader before. As the i Pad reaches from the other direction will we see a clash for supremacy or some unifying ground where all computing is mobile and all computers can be toted by one hand. I personally believe it will be a long continuous battle with no certain clear winner. There will not be the decisive war like VHS vs. Beta, but more like the war between Apple vs. PC. The front keeps moving back and forth with no clear end in the foreseeable future.

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What Are the Advantages of the Nook eBook Reader?

Every day we read more about the emerging trend of eBook readers and how they are changing not only how we read but also the very nature of the book and publishing world.

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The Nook is the popular eBook reading device that is made by Barnes and Noble. While there are many other devices like this available, this one has quite a few advantages that are hard to find on other eBook readers. Let's take a look at them.

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The best thing about this device is the lending feature. This means that when you buy a book you can lend it to your friend who also has a Nook for 2 weeks at a time. While your friend reads the book, you don't have access to it. This gives you the same advantage as buying books which you can give to friends to read for a period of time. This is a huge feature that other devices like this don't have yet.

It has not only the electronic ink screen but a small 3.5" color touch screen on the lower part of the device. This is where the navigation, keyboard, and other controls are. This gives the devices quite a bit of functionality since any controls can be added in the future.

This device runs on Android. There is the possibility of applications being developed for the nook taking advantage of the touch screen and electronic ink screen.

The Nook happens to have a music player. All the control for this are done on the touch screen. This isn't necessarily any better than other devices, but it's a great feature to have.

When you go to Barnes and Noble, you can browse any book there for an hour on your Nook. This gives you time to just sit back and read books on your Nook.

This does have a WiFi connection. There aren't any amazing things that can be done with this at the moment, but in the future having WiFi is a great advantage over not having it.

There is an expansion slot on the device for additional memory. This will let you load applications and keep your data stored on it without having to use the internet like on some devices.

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Will The Portable EBook Reader Make Traditional Books Obsolete?

It appears to be the year of the portable eBook reader - the Amazon Kindle DX has been the fastest and best-selling gadget for quit some time with the Barnes and Noble Nook coming in at a close second. EBooks outsold traditional paper books as gifts for over a year now. However, the news has prompted much debate over the question - Will the eReader make traditional books obsolete?'

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The Argument Against the Portable eBook Reader

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The eReader is undoubtedly becoming more and more popular, there are several factors, however, that could slow the pace of it's growing popularity. First off, the price of an ereader - even the cheapest model - is many, many times more than the price of a book. On top of the reader itself, there is still the cost of each new eBook to consider. Unfortunately, the price a paper book versus an ebook...well they're just about the same price.

There is also the fact that the traditional book is a part of our history, and sometimes culture is a difficult thing to change. There are people who love the feel of a book, who love to fold down the pages and love to make notes. People love going to the libraries and roaming the bookshelves. They love seeing books in their physical form, which can never be completely replaced with the ebook.

In fact, books become an artifact from history in their own right. Some people feel that paper books have a greater lifespan than a gadget could ever have - electronics tend to break down eventually or another gadget comes along that takes their place.

The Argument for the Portable eReader

Many people say that you can't understand the experience of an eBook reader until you have one of your own. Even some of the strongest book lovers have found themselves converted to digital format, and see eBooks as the format of the future.

Indeed, many business and universities already make use of digital forms of books to help make them more accessible. Students can simply read papers and chapters from home, rather than having to go out to the library and carry heavy books back with them. Most of the major brands, including the Amazon Kindle DX and the Barnes and Noble Nook, allow for annotations - making eBook readers far more valuable than simply displaying words on a screen.

A Middle Ground?

The middle ground states that, eBook readers will continue to grow in popularity, and eBooks will become more and more widely accepted. It's doubtful that the physical book will ever be completely replaced, however, the portable eBook reader will make books more accessible, especially through the help of free libraries such as Project Gutenberg. Good news is we don't have to make a definitive decision. We can have the best of both worlds...electronic and physical books.

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