Nook vs. Kindle vs. Novel Which e-book reader should you buy?

Hello…My name is Lisa and I am a Bookworm…

I love to read, and have wondered about ereaders-which is best? The Barnes and Noble Nook? The Amazon Kindle? Or Pandigital’s Novel?

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert
Gissing

I never thought an electronic E-Book Reader would work for me. I am a book addict, I collect books and just the musty dusty book smell in my favorite vintage bookshop can make my heart skip a beat. I thought I would look into ereaders and see what they were all about. I went to try out Barnes and Noble’s Nook for myself and read review after review at C Net.

There are so many pros and cons out there that it really boils down to what you are trying to do with your reader and which features work best for you.

I chose Pandigital’s Novel and I will tell you why. I love to read at night-and you can change the text from day reading to Night read-which flips the background to black and leaves text white so you
need no additional lighting to read. You can change the font or
brightness to suit you. It may not work as well on a sunny beach as say
the Nook (but it has not stopped me). It comes loaded with a great dictionary-tap the word in question and Novel’s dictionary pops up and will define it.

I am graphics oriented and love that the touch screen is Full Color-so magazines and pictures are full color. It holds your music and photos, video-whatever you want. A main selling point to me is that it
compatible with Barnes and Noble stores so you can download books in
under a second. The Novel is Wi-Fi ready! You can surf the internet or
email on the virtual keyboard. You can also lend and borrow books via
lendme technology. It has expandable memory and can literally hold thousands of books!

I love my Novel and can not imagine life without it now. I have not experienced any problems with it being too slow-it has *so far* run great! I do not see it ever replacing my beloved vintage books or
collected favorites *but* it is unbeaten in quickly providing “snack
books” and it even has the ability to download Free books from B & N!

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

Books are portable Magick…

Go lose yourself in a great book!

Love, Laughter & Candlelight!

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Comment by IBN Member Lisa Kasper on September 8, 2010 at 11:30pm: Ohhh man that is cool Dia!
(Great name btw...) So many cool indies!

Those are great features! Has you mom tried yours? Did she like it? So far I have loaded zero pics and music on mine (although I am able) but I have loaded about 60 books, and read 30 with not a single problem...I am sold!
Thanks for taking time to leave a message!
*Best*
~Lisa

Comment by Dia Robinson on September 8, 2010 at 10:17pm: Well, I have a Nook and my Mom has a Kindle. I have to be honest I love my Nook but I have had some problems with it and had to send to send it back a couple of times. My mom has had the kindle since it came out and she has had no problems. The reason why I wanted the Nook is because I read so much and buy so many books that by having it, I have been able to keep from buy anymore bookshelves. The nook will also let you download pictures and music on to it so everytime you cut it off or on you get a different picture as a screensaver. The Kindle will read the story to you while the Nook will let you download audio books and you can listen to that way. The nook also allows you to play two game Suduko and Chess and you and surf the web in a beta function. I think the Kindle holds up better than the nook and their covers protect the device better than the ones for the Knook. The key pad is not touch screen so you don't have that worry about it going out like you do the Nook. The ipad is almost like my laptop so I saw no purpose in getting one. The only thing about a e-readers is that if you go to book signings you have nothing for the author to sign, but I was able to get Sherrilyn Kenyon to sign my Nook so I pray to God nothing happens to it.

Comment by IBN Member Lisa Kasper on August 28, 2010 at 1:11am: I understand Pam,
Part of me will always feel that way. :)

Comment by Pam Gautreau on August 27, 2010 at 10:37pm: Call me old fashioned, I still prefer the actual book itself. Technology is great, but there's something to be said for the turning of the page by hand.

Comment by IBN Member Lisa Kasper on August 27, 2010 at 5:38pm: You bet dM,
Those are the reasons I chose the Pandigital Novel, it is not quite as expensive as an ipad-which I want. But can do most of the things.
So far I am extremely happy.
Good luck! <3
~Lisa

Comment by dM, CEO on August 27, 2010 at 5:02pm: Lisa,

Thanks for this post! I don't have an iPad or a Kindle or a Nook! I am still trying to figure out which one to buy.

Yesterday's New York Times has a great article comparing the three options, so I'm going to read that again, along with your post, and decide soon.

I'm leaning toward an iPad because it functions in different ways, not just as a book reader. But I'm torn!

Thank you for your insights!

dM

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