The Nook is available at Best Buy, as well as Barnes and Noble stores, and of course via mail-order.
Looks like the Kindle folks have declared a price war, because now the wi-fi Kindle is $10 cheaper than the wi-fi Nook, and the 3G + wi-fi Kindle is (you guessed it) $10 cheaper than the 3G + wi-fi Nook.
The new Kindle has some nifty features, and a lot to recommend it.
But what finally sold me on the Nook was that, unlike the Kindle, the Nook is compatible with e-books checked out from public libraries online. Since I have library cards at 5, count 'em, 5, public libraries statewide that all have slightly-differing e-book collections, this capability is very important to me. Why buy a book if I can check it out of the library?
And by borrowing library copies of just one or two books, rather than buying them, I made up that $10 price differential almost immediately.
If, on the other hand, all you want to do with a reading device is buy books, download and read them, either device should work just fine for you.
A couple more advantages of the Nook. One, you can expand the memory by adding an SD card. Two, and VERY important, YOU, the user, can replace the battery yourself. Apparently with the Kindle, you have to send in the device to get the battery replaced.
Looks like the Kindle folks have declared a price war, because now the wi-fi Kindle is $10 cheaper than the wi-fi Nook, and the 3G + wi-fi Kindle is (you guessed it) $10 cheaper than the 3G + wi-fi Nook.
The new Kindle has some nifty features, and a lot to recommend it.
But what finally sold me on the Nook was that, unlike the Kindle, the Nook is compatible with e-books checked out from public libraries online. Since I have library cards at 5, count 'em, 5, public libraries statewide that all have slightly-differing e-book collections, this capability is very important to me. Why buy a book if I can check it out of the library?
And by borrowing library copies of just one or two books, rather than buying them, I made up that $10 price differential almost immediately.
If, on the other hand, all you want to do with a reading device is buy books, download and read them, either device should work just fine for you.
A couple more advantages of the Nook. One, you can expand the memory by adding an SD card. Two, and VERY important, YOU, the user, can replace the battery yourself. Apparently with the Kindle, you have to send in the device to get the battery replaced.
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