Monday, October 26, 2009

Nook: with ADS!! ... no thanks

I bought the Kindle and I like it a lot. Now B&N has a reader, the nook, and over at TPM, Josh loves the color:
Just on a very casual glance some features that make Nook sound much better than Kindle are 1) color, speaks for itself
(he also loves the touch-screen, which I on principle DO NOT WANT on something I am trying to read, but ymmv).

However, look at this (click image to enlarge):

ad picture of nook reader, with ads on 'Chapter 2' page

Now, I could be mistaking an advertising mockup for the real thing, but ... I don't want ads on the bottom of the page I'm reading in a book. Color or not.

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At 12:53 PM, October 26, 2009 Blogger incunabular had this to say...

They kind of look like book covers to me. It's probably where the user scrolls through his/her collection of books with their finger, similar to the "album view" on the iPod touch.

 
At 1:00 PM, October 26, 2009 Blogger incunabular had this to say...

Confirmed. You can see the Nook's menu operation in this video.

I hope the link works this time.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10379125-1.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related

 
At 1:29 PM, October 26, 2009 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

Perhaps so. Perhaps it's bn.com.

But even if it's my library, I don't need that much of my screen taken up with color pictures of OTHER books. When I'm reading, all I need on the page is the text. Kindle's listing of titles is ample, and doesn't waste my screen.

 

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