I got a Nook (Barnes & Noble eReader) for my birthday. It’s very nice. There are other eReaders out there, this one is open to ePub & PDF from anywhere (plus other formats, & music) and works nicely with Barnes & Noble online store.
If any of you have a Nook, there is a feature where Nook users can “lend” books to other Nook users. Not just any book, but selected ones, yes. So if any of you do have a Nook, let me know!
Update [07/22/2010 9:39am]: check out my blog post with the pictures in it.
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Congrats Marysue but I haven’t shelled out any money for a digital reader because I was waiting for a full color reader. But if someone bought one for me I would gladly keep and use it. So many books are free for the readers, mostly public domain titles. books.google.com has many books in epub or pdf for free download.
Amazon has lowered their price on the lowest cost reader but I would want the larger dx model. I hate reading books on my computer but I think a hand held device would be okay and I have too many books already. Many of the books I buy are beading books and I need a color device but I don’t know any of them being offered in digital form. But I have many beading pattern in PDF.
Let us know about your Nook and features you like.
Debbie, the eReaders mostly all have wonderful reading sreens, not backlit and they look like a page of ink/paper. The NOOK is 600×800 (screen measures 3 1/2″ x almost 5″), like a “paperback” with 6 possible different font sizes and 3 different fonts.
The units do not use any power to display a page because of the the tech. they use (& no backlight) so you need a light or lit room to read, just as you would a real paper book.
The Nook has something different than others, a bottom area for choosing things, and it is backlit, and it displays menus, in book lists it displays color book covers if you want, in a flow method. The display there goes dark to save power when you are reading. When it’s dark you can swipe to turn the page, you can also turn the page any time with the mechanical buttons of direction on each side of the reading screen.
I have my display area set to go off at 10 seconds since I want my battery to last as long as possible, plus I prefer the “swipe” method of turning the pages (I love touch screen stuff, my phone is a Palm Pre [WebOS] )
The thing I also like about the Nook is the screensaver. The Nook goes to sleep and shows whatever you have set up as the screensaver. A simple folder of pictures is all you need. I pre-sized mine to 600×800 and they show up wonderfully, except for one (a picture I took in the Atlanta Museum almost a year ago of a Monet painting, I figured it wouldn’t work, used it as a test it needs more “light/dark” to work well.)
I have a picture of Geo. Taylor, a profile of him looking to the right, with his sig. below. Looks awesome. The picture of Grandpa that is very long, in WWI Army, I cropped it to show head down whatever 600×800 would allow. It looks awesome. Then I have an old cell phone picture of my now dead cat Princess from some years ago on the floor sitting in an area of light from a window. Really cool. Then a picture of Radio City Music Hall in NYC that I took with my cell phone a couple of years ago when we were there. They are all great, except that Monet one.
Then you can also use a picture as the “desktop” of the reading screen when no functions are being used. I made a quick file in Photoshop Elements, used a texture and a maple leave shape to put a bunch of leaves like falling down the page randomly.
So the picture stuff is all mine. Nice. You make it what you want. (I don’t know how the Kindle works, for instance, but I steared myself away from them when I learned how DRM they are …)
My Nook is free 3g + Wi-Fi capable. The 3g is AT&T. At B&N in the store Nook connects to their Wi-Fi automatically and you can read any book for 1 hour full. If you come back another day, you can pick up right where you were last in the instore reading book.
There are a lot of “free” books on the B&N store which you can download to your Nook over the air.
You can “sideload” anything by connecting with the USB cord (which is part of the charger, it unplugs from the wall charger, my Palm Pre is like that too) then the Nook shows up as a drive and you just drag and drop.
You can put MP3 and OGG music or audiobook files on it. (Audible.com doesn’t work with Nook)
My Nook in a cover fits nicely into my purse.
Anyhow, there look to be some color things on the market, maybe now or soon. Here is a link to an article about one that has ties to B&N … and would work with the LendMe feature and store and all that.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20005624-1.html
The main thing about a color screen though, battery power doesn’t last as long. e-ink screens last for 10+ hours, depends on how much you do with your e-Reader.
OK, that’s it for now. Ooops, now that I put that link, must say upon more searching, they have recalled that e-Reader, it’s a software recall. Anyhow, it’s kind of a tablet pad, just mini-mini like an e-Reader.
About all of this, I love the e-Reader and I plan to use it as an e-Reader absolute.
I’m awaiting to see what HP does with WebOS now that they officially own it. That’s the avenue I’ll probally go down to get a slate or tablet or whatever they will call it. I love devices, and having a laptop, an e-Reader, a touch phone, and a slate are very much me, as long as they aren’t Apple. 🙂
Marysue, I have wanted a digital reader for a while now, but i am not sure if i can take it to work with me. if not, i would not have much time to use it to justify getting one. and then there is the fact that i love the smell and feel of a real book too. the place where i work is very detailed on what we can and cant have on the base and we are very lucky to be able to have ipods there as long as we dont have the usb cord for it. my co-worker and i have ipods and we both have a speaker set that also charges them when they sit in a cradle. that is how we get around it. i use my ipod to listen to music mostly on the way home from work on the bus. i have several audio books on it but have not taken the time to hear all of them, i get bored, but i still have them if i want to listen to them. i can look at the policy onbase again and see what they say about digital readers and then ask for one for Christmas if they are allowed.
hey, my email is getting errors today and it is from the shellfam email. i went to log in to online squirrelmail and had to reset my password. I suppose i have to update the password for that account on outlook. have any of you got an error like that?
Becky, Debbie, the email error thing was the server. Sometimes things happen with email servers that I have no control over. The thing was, if you can get to the place to change your password, your password is good, it’s something else … which will right itself eventually, sooner than later usually. It took a long time this time, but it’s one of those things I don’t quibble about, as it’s not very often, and the email I can have from my host is wide-open in how much I get, how big it is, so I don’t mind a few downtimes a year. Anyhow, it was only a partial day.
Also, don’t rely on soley email for this site my dear sisters, it’s an interactive entire site … 🙂
Yes, you can edit your own … at least I do believe you can … there is no “edit” link staticly shown. Hover your pointer over the right side of a comment or post that you have made and the red “edit” button should appear.
I’m not fully sure how much power you have over comments, so if you can’t do that, just copy the comment and make the changes and email that to me, if you don’t mind, then I’ll replace the new one with the old one.
Also, you know about zooming in browsers … if you use Firefox it’s easy with control++ control+- to go in and out. Plus there is a “Zoom Text Only” feature. Would that make it easier for you? Frank has good distance eyes, but struggles with close reading the past few years. I have a distance problem same as ever, and can read just fine, so all I can say is it does help Frank if the font size is bigger. The “Zoom Text Only” toggled on does work to enlarge all the fonts on the page with the zoom ctrl functions. (I’ve just tried it) I think it’s a cool way to use the Zoom feature of a browser, don’t enlarge other elements, just the text as needed.
Thank you for giving me the Firefox information. I didn’t know about the enlarging text option or I knew about it once but never used it. I hardly use my keyboard though as my eyesight is better when I sit far away from my LCD and I get around mostly using my mouse. When anyone else uses my computer they scoot up close and have to relocate my mouse.
As to the edit problem; I don’t know what happened but I can’t edit any comments I made after July 22nd. If I go to the admin/comments area all my comments have a space at the bottom so if I mouse over the area all the edit functions are there but there is no space or edit functions for my comments after July 22.
For now I am using Word to type my comments, and then I’ll paste the final in the comment space.
OK, the comments are only editable for a certain amount of time then for anyone but the main admin … I can edit anything, so if you do want something changed in comments, please do let me have the replacement text to change it for you.
The red edit has always come up for me before and as far as a limited time to edit comments, my old comments can still be edited just not my newer ones.
Trash both the comments I made on July 24th.
Thank you Marysue!
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