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My husband almost got that, but since it won't display newspapers and magazines, he decided on the Nook. He really liked everything else about it, though.

I like folding corners and the way bookstores smell.

I still don't know what's wrong about ordinary books.

I'll always have books at home, but for traveling it's super inconvenient to take books along. They're heavy and take up too much space.

What's the disadvantage of having a nook instead of a paper book anyway? I can just see the future. "Sure eyebooks are great (chip in your head that beams the book into your retina) but I miss the feeling of actually holding a device.

Well that's gross.

Reminds me of a couple weeks ago when we went to the birthday party of one of my better-half's co-workers. He's a pretty gay dude, so we went to a gay bar, and we arrived near midnight because an Elton John concert had detained the guest of honor. He arrived ****-faced and ushered us to the rear bar, deepest in the place, where a drag show had broken out. It was loud and ***** like something out of an Elton John concert.

So there we were, staggering through the sweaty-glittery masses, getting dragged by a man with a rainbow-belt around his knee(a "knee-belt", apparently) and a silver "mandible-claw" on his middle finger toward a stage full of transvestites when our leader lost us. We drifted in a sea of sodomites, and one of them backed up into me and stepped on my foot. It was a short thing, maybe five feet tall at best, and Phillipino or Cambodian or something, nd although it had little titlettes like a ten year-old girl, I knew it possessed a weird little *****, too.

She turned her face up to me and said "Sorry" or something in her alien tongue and through the din. And that's when it hit me. Her breath.

It was like latex and spermicide smeared in **** and topped with gin and hamburger, maybe. It was the scent of ***-to-mouth and the fear of AIDS.

I went home and waited till my wife fell asleep and jacked off like they were going to chemically castrate me in the morn'. I inserted chopsticks in my ******** and played with the lower parts of my guts, tugging and twisting like a bird eating a fish. Haha, just kidding, but you know what I mean guys, I like the way old books smell. Everyone does.

Are you speaking to the nook specifically? I haven't had a chance to try any of these out yet, but I'd like to hear readability opinions from people who've used them.

I'd assume that e-ink is the same between devices to a large extent.

Edited, Jul 21st 2010 4:33pm by Xsarus

My oldest got a Nook and let me try it, while waiting for grand daughter's gymnastics class to end. Wasn't hard on my eyes and after I got use to the controls, the only thing I missed was the feel and smell of paper, ink and glue.

I like the fact that it was easy to put in one's purse and it didn't weigh a ton after lugging it around all day.

I like my in house library. I think I would miss buying real books.

As much as I like real books, I agree with the space/weight inconveniences they bring with them. I could be turned on to an iPad, I think.

But Mr. Tare would kill me. :)

That's awesome!

The charger is a USB plug, nothing at all like a huge phone charger. Finding an outlet would be the only issue.

I'm not getting a commission, I promise.

My traveling is all done by car, with me driving, so audio books would be more my speed.

The Kobo is sort of the budget ereader $149.00 CDN, it's only available in Canada at the moment but is expanding to the US shortly. It has fewer features than a Kindle (no 3g, wifi, or keyboard), but it reads epub format books which is an open format (easy conversion from various formats, no vendor lock in etc). The screens on all of the ereaders nearly exactly the same, there's only one company in the world that produces e-ink displays so the only difference is in the controllers. Mine is extremely clear, but yes there is a slight dimming effect in bright sunlight (Who reads with the sun beating off the page of their book?)

This thing has something like an 8000 page/2 week battery life and takes 3 hours max to charge. I'm sure it's less in practice but outlets really aren't an issue, it's not like a cell phone that dies by mid day.

The real benefit here is free books. There are a number of sites where public domain or just simply free books are available. The device even comes with 100 books on it (things like Huck Finn, Sherlock Holmes etc). Bean, Project Gutenberg, MobileRead (among others) all have free books.

The side benefit, and the reason I bought one, is being able to buy books I've been waiting for instead of having to choose between A. paying $30 for the hardcover, B. waiting another year for the paperback. New releases are typically available as ebooks when hardcovers hit the shelves, for paperback prices.