Nook update

[ellid]

Have now loaded 15 books from Project Gutenberg onto Nook. Am halfway through Dracula. This thing *rocks*.

*squees quietly*

Comments

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I was sitting next to someone with a Nook on the bus today. It looked pretty nice.

How's the availability of non-DRM books for it?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

One of the things I like is that you aren't limited to content only from Barnes & Noble; if it's in ePub or Adobe or even Sony eReader format, you can download and read. I was *really* unhappy about Amazon's content-exclusivity, and I swore I'd never buy a Kindle after hearing about Amazon yanking books from Kindle owners without warning over possible copyright violations. The Nook seems less pissy about it, but then again Barnes & Noble is still primarily a bookstore.

I had no problem at all downloading e-books from Project Gutenberg last night. I did use an e-book management and conversion program called Calibre to help, but I downloaded a baker's dozen of old favorites in about fifteen minutes....

Exactly why I didn't want a kindle

[meneathiel.livejournal.com]

That looks cool, I'd never heard of them before. I am loving my iTouch. Mostly I read fics so I needed something that would easily read text files.

[visionshadows.livejournal.com]

Also one of the pluses about using Calibre and the Nook - anything you can make into a pdf can be converted to epub and put on the Nook. I have some of my faaaaavorite fanfics on there now as well. :)

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Yep. My friend Walter (http://www.amazon.com/Walter-H.-Hunt/e/B001HCUWIK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1) uses me as a first reader sometimes, and it'll be a lot easier to read his books on my Nook than on a computer screen.