New Toy

[SeaCat]

Well we broke down and picked up the two Noon E-Readers we've been thinking about.

Well we got them home, unpacked them and started charging them. That took a couple of hours. While they were charging I set up our account at Barnes and Noble and got everything ready. Hmmmm, they gave us four free books. (Bram Stoker's Dracula, a Dictionary, Little Women and one other.) I quickly deleted Little Women and the other while keeping Dracula and the Dictionary. (Hey I've never read Dracula believe it or not.)

So now I've had it on and have been working with it for a couple of hours. I have to admit that I'm fairly impressed with it so far.

Cat

 

[sr71plt]

Well we broke down and picked up the two Noon E-Readers we've been thinking about.

Well we got them home, unpacked them and started charging them. That took a couple of hours. While they were charging I set up our account at Barnes and Noble and got everything ready. Hmmmm, they gave us four free books. (Bram Stoker's Dracula, a Dictionary, Little Women and one other.) I quickly deleted Little Women and the other while keeping Dracula and the Dictionary. (Hey I've never read Dracula believe it or not.)

So now I've had it on and have been working with it for a couple of hours. I have to admit that I'm fairly impressed with it so far.

Cat

Followup with what you think of it after you've had it a while, please. I asked about this in comparison with the Kindle on another thread a week or so ago, but didn't get any response. Thanks.

 

[SeaCat]

Followup with what you think of it after you've had it a while, please. I asked about this in comparison with the Kindle on another thread a week or so ago, but didn't get any response. Thanks.

Will do. (I think I asked the same question in the same thread.)

One thing I do know is their collection of cheap and free books is rather impressive. They have a bunch in their I want to read.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Okay, it's still early in my ownership of this but,,,,,,,

This morning I realized that all off the chores on the HDL were done. That meant I had time for something I rarely do these days. Namely reading just for pleasure.

I filled my coffee cup, grabbed the Nook and moved to the patio.

I worked my way through most of a pot of coffee and 80 pages of Dracula.

This E-Reader is comfortable to hold and it's print is crisp and clear. Very easy to read. Turning the pages in the book is accomplished by either dragging a finger across a touch screen on the bottom of the device or by pressing a button on either side of the case.

The only way I found it to be different than reading a book is it only displays one page instead of two as in a normal book. (Well that and I didn't have to worry about the pages getting soggy when I started sweating as the temperature rose.)

Oh it's much lighter than the book I would have been reading.

Buying books can be a touch tedious on both the device and the computer but I can deal with that. There's a short learning curve on using the search engines.

So far though I'm enjoying this.

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

Cat,

Will it download from Project Gutenberg?

Og

 

[SeaCat]

Cat,

Will it download from Project Gutenberg?

Og

Looking at their website it doesn't look like it will download directly from there. You would have to download the books to your computer and then load them into the Nook from there.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Looking at their website it doesn't look like it will download directly from there. You would have to download the books to your computer and then load them into the Nook from there.

Cat

Which isn't really a big deal given that you get free reads out of it. Does the Nook have a USB port? I know the iPad doesn't and that's a real matter of concern.

 

[SeaCat]

Which isn't really a big deal given that you get free reads out of it. Does the Nook have a USB port? I know the iPad doesn't and that's a real matter of concern.

It certainly does.

Hold on a second, here's a link to the so called Tech. Specs.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/techspecs/?cds2Pid=30195

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

An update.

Okay I have finally gotten around to loading in some of the PDF's from my computer to the reader. (Modules 1 and 2 from the NEETS Program.)

Loading them in was easy enough to do.

The PDF pages read just as easily as the books I've downloaded and read on it. Book Marking and doing other things such as looking up words are just as easy with the PDF as with the Books.

Oh and the drawings in the PDF are just as crisp and clear as on the computer.

Cat

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I've looked at the things, and fnd a certain appeal...maybe to take on road trips for convenience...but then again, even on (maybe more so on) road trips I lean towards the sensually concrete. And books are each so different in feel, in mass, in texture, in scent..in everything, that they satisfy my need for sensual as well as intellectual pleasure in reading. The Kindle, and nook, and iPad all strike me as internet porn - things may look a bit different, but I'm still left holding the same plastic doll...

I think I will buy one, though, and try it out... and I'll watch what you folks have to say about ypours as you use it...

 

[SeaCat]

I've looked at the things, and fnd a certain appeal...maybe to take on road trips for convenience...but then again, even on (maybe more so on) road trips I lean towards the sensually concrete. And books are each so different in feel, in mass, in texture, in scent..in everything, that they satisfy my need for sensual as well as intellectual pleasure in reading. The Kindle, and nook, and iPad all strike me as internet porn - things may look a bit different, but I'm still left holding the same plastic doll...

I think I will buy one, though, and try it out... and I'll watch what you folks have to say about ypours as you use it...

Now don't get me wrong, there are some things I insist on having the printed version. I have more than a few books of Military History complete with Photo Plates that somehow just don't work as well in digital. The same for many of my older books. (My favorite is a newer find, Barrack Room Ballads and other Verse by Rudyard Kipling. I know I mentioned it here a while back.) There is just something about certain books and how they feel in your hands.

On the other hand much of my reading is from a library of well over 200 PDF's. We're talking in the tens of thousands of pages here. I can't sit and read from a computer screen for more than half an hour at a time without getting a headache and my back and hips going into spasms. These I can easily download into my reader and read at my leisure and comfort, without having to print them out.

Also enough of my reading is of the junk variety, Sci-Fi etc., that I don't need to clutter up my place with more books than I already have.

Cat

 

[Weird Harold]

Also enough of my reading is of the junk variety, Sci-Fi etc., that I don't need to clutter up my place with more books than I already have.

Have you checked out http://www.baen.com/library/ ? Baen books offers digital versions of several of their most popular author's works -- John Ringo, Eric Flint, David Drake, and David Weber are the ones I follow. They offer several different formats for different eBook readers, plus HTML and RTF formats; there should be a format your Nooks will work with. (they also bind CDRom versions of portions of the library in selected hardcover books.)

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Try downloading and reading my book (points to sig). It's also available from Amazon.

You'd be the 10th person to read it!