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Nook vs kindle for kids10/30/2023 If you’re needing your device to be waterproof and dustproof, it’s worth giving Nook’s some serious consideration. They certainly have a chance through their diversification. Do the Nook’s stand a chance the Mighty Amazon Kindle’s. Unfortunately no such service exists for the Nooks Conclusion This can encourage them to get onboard with reading in a digital age. Depending on how many Nook friends you have will determine which service is right for you.Īmazon devices all encourage your kids to read by letting you set up reading challenges for you little ones. Amazon’s alternative to this to provide a service called Overdrive which allows you to borrow books from your local library. This allows you to lend books to your friend and family who are also on Nooks. The Nook’s also encourage sharing your reads with others with their LendMe service. In contrast, Nook’s have opted for the traditional touch sensitive mode of page navigation. This is demonstrated on the Kindle Voyage. On some Amazon devices, they have opted to use Pagepress technology which means you can press the sides of the device to turn the pages back and forth. If you’re worried about spilling your drink on the device whilst lounging around the pool on holiday, this might be something worth considering. The Nook devices tend to be waterproof and dustproof which is a route Amazon has not chosen to go down. Also both Nook’s and Amazon Kindle’s have the highest resolution possible for your reading experience. Nooks call this out specifically as Glo light technology but in reality it’s just the screen being bright at night without intervention.īoth types of devices also allow you to store your books online and allow you to read them on multiple devices (mobiles, tablets etc). You can read both Amazon and Nook devices in the dark due to their brightness technology. The Nooks can can read formats such as PDF, ePub texts and JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP graphics whereas as Kindle devices tend to read the Amazon Ebook format (AZW), MOBI, PRC, TXT as well as PDF files Stark contrast here as this reflects the online stores from which you can purchase EBooks from. For those of you wanting to splash the cash, there is the Kindle Oasis which is the lightest device of on the market but also one of the most expensive. The exception being the Kindle Paperwhite. PriceĪt the time of writing, The Nook Glowlight Plus was a little cheaper than the majority of Kindle’s out there. Overall on the UI I have to say that my personal preference is Amazon’s interface as they seemed have taken the most common features a user may need and make them easily accessible. With that said, this can be easily overcome by the search functionality. If you’re planning on having a lot of EBooks stored on the device, Nook devices can be a little clunky in terms of having to scroll through books to find the one you want. The Nook has taken the approach of being a little more visual when it comes to displaying the EBook covers on various UI screens, whereas Amazon tends to reserve this just for the Home screen.Īlso the Nooks do have a recommended reading section on the home screen which allows you to view excerpts from books and then store these on a wishlist which is then available in the store. Still no good book reader exists IMO.There are some key differences here when it comes to comparing the User Interfaces. Kindle Kids 6' 16GB Front Light eReader (2022 Model) 79.99 (List Price 119.99) Kindle Scribe 16GB eReader With Basic Pen (2022 Release) 264. Kindle might sell pretty well but it's no iPod of books. The Best Prime Day eReader Deals This Week. A DVD sized e-book reader about say half the thickness or slightly thicker with great battery life, a headphone jack and a speaker without massive bezels, silly chin and with simple software is what's missing in the e-book reader world. A DVD case is 9" on the diagonal and is about the smallest an e-ink book reader should be. A tiny 6" screen for reading books is a joke, sorry. Would much prefer if they scrapped all of the models and just focused on making one awesome 9" model and tried to bring the prices down through economies of scale, selling just a single model in black and white and one storage size: we're talking books.įurther, another thing Kindle needs is a headphone jack and a built-in speaker like Kindle 3 had. What Kindles have going for them mostly is price, but that really in my mind only applies to the cheapest model. I'd also like to see a slightly thicker reader with longer battery life. If Apple made a 9" e-ink reader (kindles are too small) that looked like the page of a book "Apple Page" or "Apple Book" and had some innovative features such as page numbers (ffs) and the ability to squeeze either side of the page to turn the page I'd honestly buy one. I honestly would like if Apple made an e-ink reader because Amazon isn't great at hardware or software, at least when it comes to Kindle. I do wish Apple would add e-ink tech to iPads but that’s probably hard to engineer.
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