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Which is better: Nook or Kindle?

I have around 175 bucks to buy an ereader, but I don’t know which to buy. The two that I’ve narrowed it down to are the Kindle and the Nook. I like that I can test out the Nook before I buy it at a nearby BN. I also like the Nook because it has games, mp3, and the touch screen at the bottom. I know the touch screen drains battery life, but I charge allmy electronics before I got to bed, so the 3.5 hour charge time won’t be a problem. I like that the Kindle is muuuuch cheaper! I can buy 2 books with the money I’d save! I like that it has a long battery, transitions from pages and books are faster, and comes in black and won’t get dirt smudges that will inevitably happen. It doesn’t have LendMe, but for 20 bucks cheaper, I can suffice. Not many of my friends at school have either device anyway! So this is a hard decision for me. I didn’t want to ask my dad cause he’d go with the obviously cheaper one, since it’s cheaper! Any tips on glitches and such? Thanks!

Hi, eeBuhRuh, Kindle 3 is lighter and has a better screen and battery than Kindle 2. It’s not a touchscreen, it’s still e-Ink black & white screen. You should understand the limitations of e-Ink eReaders – they are limited to be black & white for now they “blink” at each ebook’s page turn, they’re not too good for web browsing, they need external light source for reading when dark, and they cannot handle videos.
There’s also similar Nook eReader devices available from Barnes & Noble that have a lot of advantages over Kindles such as:
1. Nook allows to lend Nook books for two weeks to friends and family or share with your other devices that run B&N app (PC, MAC, Android phones, Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad, etc.) Barnes & Noble allows (when you walk in with the Nook to B&N store) to read any available eBook for free while in the store via free provided in the store Wi-Fi. With Nook, while in BN store you get exclusive articles from top authors, and great offers including cafe treats and unique deals.
2. Nook (unlike Kindle) can be used for library ebooks.
3. Nook (unlike Kindle) can be used for renting text-ebooks.
There’s over a million of free public ebooks as well as over a million of ebooks that you need to pay for available through Barnes & Noble eBook store. Prices are generally much lower than for physical books.
If you’re willing to spend a bit more, you could get Nook Color from Barnes & Noble which is a hybrid Android device, much more than just an e-Reader but not a full tablet as it doesn’t have a camera (but iPad also doesn’t have one.) Even though Nook Color has LCD touchscreen, it’s a new generation screen which is anti-glare coated and is better performing in sunlight and produces less glare all of which are dooming reading on iPad. Also, the screen is amazing and readable/viewable at wide angles.
Nook Color has several apps that already come with the device (Pandora Internet radio, QuickOffice, etc.) Also, Barnes & Noble recently released Nook SDK and Nook Developer platform that will allow most of the existing 100,000 Android apps be ported to it. You can use the Social Settings screen to link your NOOKcolor to your Facebook account and your Twitter account. You can also import all your contacts from your Google Gmail account. Once you have linked to Facebook and Twitter and set up email contacts, you can lend and borrow books, recommend books, and share favorite quotes with your friends.
If all you want is to read novels, Kindle (or the original e-Ink Nook) might be better for you. If you want something more from your device (color graphs and charts of college text books, childrens books, photos and videos, web sites in full color) at half of the price of iPad or Galaxy tab, then Nook Color is your best bet.

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