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Decisions, decisions
Mar. 29th, 2011 06:02 amBossman and I have been looking at the Nooks. I know, absolutely, that I do not want a Kindle and do like the owner-friendly policies I've read in the Nook contract. But weighing the pros and cons between the offered models is stiff.
The black & white pretty much does all that I want so far as leisure reading is concerned, is a nice size, and it comes with the 3G option - which means I can download a book from anyplace I happen to be sitting. That makes me happy. But it doesn't support Word or other document formats that I also read and use. (It does support .pdf.)
The Nook Color supports Word and other formats, but does not come with a 3G option, which limits one's ability to download books. This really matters to a quick reader who spends a lot of time in non-WiFi areas. And it makes Pennsic-tide a little less convenient.
I cannot decide. I need to - my self-imposed acquisition deadline is 2 weeks from now, if not sooner, so I'll have it in hand before I start my mega-round of medical waiting rooms. It's sort of an internal security blanket. I've fixiated on it, for some reason, as the thing that will make this all do-able. Bossman says, "Why can't you just take a book like you have been doing?" and there is no real answer except the one I gave him, which is that I don't like to bring fiction with me when I'm waiting to be seen, and that means that the book I lug around is big and bulky (comparatively) as well as garnishing odd looks and comments from people around me. Well, when one is reading titles such as "Feeding a City: YORK" or "Pre-Christian Religions of the British Isles", you tend to get odd looks.
I think, in a weird way, the Nook is my piece of candy to make the medicine go down.
The black & white pretty much does all that I want so far as leisure reading is concerned, is a nice size, and it comes with the 3G option - which means I can download a book from anyplace I happen to be sitting. That makes me happy. But it doesn't support Word or other document formats that I also read and use. (It does support .pdf.)
The Nook Color supports Word and other formats, but does not come with a 3G option, which limits one's ability to download books. This really matters to a quick reader who spends a lot of time in non-WiFi areas. And it makes Pennsic-tide a little less convenient.
I cannot decide. I need to - my self-imposed acquisition deadline is 2 weeks from now, if not sooner, so I'll have it in hand before I start my mega-round of medical waiting rooms. It's sort of an internal security blanket. I've fixiated on it, for some reason, as the thing that will make this all do-able. Bossman says, "Why can't you just take a book like you have been doing?" and there is no real answer except the one I gave him, which is that I don't like to bring fiction with me when I'm waiting to be seen, and that means that the book I lug around is big and bulky (comparatively) as well as garnishing odd looks and comments from people around me. Well, when one is reading titles such as "Feeding a City: YORK" or "Pre-Christian Religions of the British Isles", you tend to get odd looks.
I think, in a weird way, the Nook is my piece of candy to make the medicine go down.
