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mdahm98 
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 Topic: s/o Nook Color vs. Kindle FirePosted: 01 Dec 2011 at 5:37pm |
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Now I am all confused! LOL From my other thread I started about the Fire, someone mentioned the Nook color, so I started to research and NOW I am confused
 If you have either can you tell me what you like and don't like about it please :D Or anything you have heard about either of them will work too. I have done some research and it seems they are pretty comparable. The Fire has less memory, but you can store in the "cloud" so it's actually not a deal breaker. Anyone who has a Nook-what are the apps like? Amazon's app store seems pretty user friendly and comparable to itunes. |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 6:01pm |
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We have a nook color, well ODS does, but I load some of my own books and knitting patterns and stuff to it. Afterall, he can't take it to school. I don't know much about the kindle fire so can't compare them. But we've been happy with it being able to read aloud to toddler child and there's alot of cool apps. D likes angry birds and the word of the day. I like sudoku and crosswords. We haven't some anywhere near maxing our memory and can always add a memory stick. All our books are in our BN account so we don't have to keep them on the nook itself if we're done with 'em. I like that we can borrow books from the library on it or be loaned books from a friend. ou can also go to BN and read books at the store for free. We had a friend do the hack for us so we can access the Kindle Library as well for anything that's not available on the nook. This was a selling point to us or rather g-pa who bought it.
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mdahm98
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 6:06pm |
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And I guess there's a Nook tablet too? Oi! Too many options :P
Thanks for your review Sam :) |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 7:19pm |
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i'm confused too!
And DH just told me to decide and winked at me....How difficult is the hack? I mainly want it for some stuff for the kids, but the starmap/constellation app is #1 on my list. If i don't have that for an option i don't want it  Oh and not to hijack, but which one is better for pdfs? a LOT of my ebooks are in that format. |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 7:31pm |
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My mom has the Nook color and really likes it. I have read books on it and played with it some. I really like it. The read aloud feature is pretty cool. She has been very happy with it.
I even used it to pin.
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 10:09pm |
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The hack is a no-brainer from what I can tell. You buy a n2a card online...I think even from Amazon...and insert it in the sd slot. there's a way to hack it yourself without buying the card, but I think that's for people that really know what they're doing, which is not me. I just bought my daughter a nook color and am considering the n2a card.
I chose the nook color for my daughter because i liked their selection of children's books better. A lot of the kindles are audio for the early reader type children's books, and I wanted her to be able to read picture books herself, since she is in first grade and can read. I'm sure now that the Amazon Kindle fire is in color, they probably will be upping their selection of picture books. |
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mdahm98
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Posted: 01 Dec 2011 at 11:54pm |
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Okay so someone explain this "hack" thing. Because it sounds hinky to me, is it on the up and up or is it illegal liking hacking someones email or something??
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 8:27am |
DH was wondering the same thing... |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:15am |
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I know the card thing is perfectly legal and does not void your warranty. Here is some info from pcmag.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391517,00.asp |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:21am |
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reading PDFs on the kindle is a pain the buttocks. I usually use calibre (on my PC) to convert my PDFs to kindle's format.
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mdahm98
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:24am |
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Thanks Kim :)
Becky-so what kind of things do you read in PDF? Like is that something that you would download from Adobe?? So not a techy-type |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:26am |
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Also, I was wondering about the whole CS thing. With a Nook you can take it to any B&N to get help, with the Kindle IDK what you would do??
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 10:54am |
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Morgan, what exactly do you want to use the nook color or kindle for? Read books, search internet, music, video, games? That might help direct you towards one or the other.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 11:46am |
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What do I read that's in pdf format? I can't remember anything right now.
some ebooks are (but not many...mostly free ones). Calibre is a 3rd party thing (I downloaded it from their website...it's free). It can do all sorts of fancy things.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 4:10pm |
All of the above kind of, but I don't expect it to be like a tablet YKWIM? I read up on them and they aren't super great for searching the internet so that's not a biggie. More for reading books, games and videos. And music isn't necessary because I have an iPod :) |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 4:11pm |
Becky! |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 4:22pm |
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With the kindle, you can zoom in on the PDF so you can see it, but then you have to scroll side to side (AND down) to read everything. just a pain. I don't read PDFs w/o converting them as a result. I have some schedules and things from church that are in PDF format...I deal with the hassle for those on the kindle if I need to read them and I'm not at my computer, but I wouldn't want to read a book that way, yk? I have a kindle keyboard. Not the Fire.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 4:37pm |
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Are a lot of the Kindle books in pdf?
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 5:09pm |
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90% of the ebooks i have gotten from The Old Schoolhouse are in PDF form.
Becky, how does it change the format? What exactly is different about it? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 5:16pm |
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It (the kindle) doesn't change the format - that's exactly the problem. I doubt seriously that the nook would be much different, though. So if you zoom it in far enough to be able to view the PDF, you also need to scroll side to side to read all of the words. With a normal (non-pdf) ebook, if you zoom in the text, it just makes the text bigger and wraps the text nicely. Like in a Word document, if you change the font from 8 point (tiny) to 12 point (plenty readable) it'll just wrap the text no problem. a PDF is static...like a picture. so if you zoom in on a picture, sometimes you have to scroll side to side to see the whole thing. it doesn't wrap nicely.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 5:21pm |
Ooooh... so the program converts it so the text wraps? Does that mess up the format at all if there are pics or anything? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2011 at 6:37pm |
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I've only read one book that had pics so far...they were whole page pics so I would just see a page w/ a pic and then the page would be my book again. I do think that kids books are specifically formatted for the kindle (idk what picture books that are not made for the kindle would look like on it).
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Posted: 23 Dec 2011 at 12:59am |
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I got a nook tablet, i didn't like the reviews of the fire and i know ppl who have them and returned them due to the screen freezing up. my kids love that the books are in color and i can either read to them ,it can read them outloud or the kids can read on their own. so far the apps are really good.
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Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 11:04pm |
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I have a nook tablet for our classroom so far so good i recommend a screen protector for either kindle or nook. A touch pricey for essentially a sticker but with my 6 and 4 yr olds using it there are neither scores of scratches or fingerprints
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