Kindle, Nook, or iPad - Which One Should You Buy?

Feb. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- LET'S LOOK AT PRICE POINTS:

Basic e-book reader: Amazon Kindle ($79, no touch screen), Amazon Kindle Touch ($99 to $189, with touch-screen), Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch ($99, touch-screen), Reading tablet for under $250: Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.

The Nook, allows you to download nearly any type of e-book or similar materials, due to it’s reliance on Adobe for its digital rights management software. And so does the Kindle.

On the 3G versions of the iPad, you'll pay a monthly fee to the cellular company (AT&T or Verizon), but it's a prepaid monthly service and you can cancel at any time.

The Kindle Fire offers no 3G version. With its reliance on cloud download options--streaming video and audio from the Amazon online store.

Kindle books can be accessed on iPads, iPhones, iPod Touch handhelds, Android phones (version 2.1 and later), Android tablets, many BlackBerry phones, Windows PCs, Macs, Windows Phone 7 phones, and via HTML 5-compatible browsers.

The Kindle has a text-to-speech feature, that will read your books for you. However the voice is very robotic sounding.

As with the prior Nook, the Simple Touch provides a LendMe feature allowing users to share some books with other people depending on licensing by the book's publisher. The buyer is permitted to share a book once with one other user for up to two weeks. The other users may view the borrowed book using a Nook, Nook Color, Nook Tablet, or Barnes & Noble's free reader software on any other device running Android, or BlackBerry OS, iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Mac OS X, or Windows.

Kindle users can bookmark, highlight and look up content. Pages can be dog-eared for reference and notes can be added to relevant content. While a book is open on the display, menu options allow users to search for synonyms and definitions from the built-in dictionary. The device also remembers the last page read for each book. Pages can be saved as a "clipping", or a text file containing the text of the currently displayed page. All clippings are appended to a single file, which can be downloaded over a USB cable

The iPad's touchscreen display is a 1024 × 768 pixel, 7.75×5.82 in (197×148 mm) liquid crystal display (diagonal 9.7 in (246.4 mm)), with fingerprint- and scratch-resistant glass. Steve Jobs backed the choice of screen size, saying a 7-inch screen would be "too small to express the software" and that 10 inches was the minimum for a tablet screen.Like the iPhone, the iPad is designed to be controlled by bare fingers; normal, non-conductive gloves and styli do not work, although there are special gloves and capacitive styli designed for this use.


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