Kindle Vs. Kindle Fire

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Originally Posted by jsnake

nook Color or nook Tablet. 'nough said

I agree with this.
The single biggest reason why I don't like the Kindle Fire: 8GB built in memory without a way to expand it. And only about 5.5GB of that is usable for content.

Amazon wants you to use their cloud storage for the bulk of your library. Which is fine in theory but in practice, it runs into a couple of problems:

1. Kindle Fire (and for that matter Nook Tablet) both can only squeeze out about 6 to 10 hours of battery life (depending on screen brightness), but if you have WiFi on, you're going to see that battery life drop a significant amount.

2. I can't always guarantee that I will be near a WiFi access point when I'm out and about--especially if I'm vacationing (i.e., camping somewhere). Kindle Fire has no 3G/4G data connection so if this is the case, you're not going to be able to access any content other than what's stored on your device.

3. I have a massive amount of content which isn't all purchased from a single source (some music, some video, a lot of PDFs from various publications, etc...). If you don't have a lot of non-Amazon content, this is probably not a big problem for you.

Given these two factors, Nook (with the ability to toss in a big old microSD card) makes it a lot easier for me to maintain my library.

However, having said all that, if you're only interested in an ebook reader, I would actually recommend the Nook Simple Reader. It has an absolutely absurd battery life (I can go for weeks without recharging it) and also provides for microSD card expansion. And as an owner of both the Nook Color & Nook Simple Reader, the latter is a lot easier to read than the former.

A big knock against the Nook Simple Reader is content management: It blows donkey balls. If you don't properly set the metadata on the content you copy onto the device, good luck finding it. Nook Color (and I assume Tablet) gives you a simple folder/sub-folder view of your storage so as long as you know where you copied the file, you can find it. Nook Simple Reader flattens that whole thing and tries to index everything based on metadata (author/publisher/series, etc...).

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Any Truth To The Rumor That Amazon Is Taking Over The Reader Market & Nook (Barnes & Noble) Will Soon Go Out Of Business???