
by jhunie
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My older Sony ereader had finally deteriorated, the entire screen was partially washed out after it fell off a table. I like reading books and went for the Nook because I had a good experience subscribing to Barne’s & Noble’s magazine subscriptions and thought I could just consolidate all of my reading in one device. It might be irrelevant to say this, but I’m also partial to Android’s products despite the things I heard about the nook’s instability. When I bought a nook, there were already plenty of firmware updates around so I can’t really say any personal account about the glitches noted in the first few versions.
In terms of reading experience, the nook is quite readable. The letters are fully customizable and the contrast between black and white tones is more defined. I’m still annoyed by the brief gray flash that is produced by ereaders as you turn between pages. Well, digital ereaders are generally built for day time reading because they have no backlighting. I have no choice but to read with ample lighting at night.
Most of the free books I source out from the internet are rendered in PDF formats which I’d like to dub – ‘generic’ books and I read it in the nook with no problems, even for those DRM free files. The same applies for DRM free, standard epub files. I have an android phone installed with the Aldiko reader software and I love that I can share the purchased books to other devices, however, the books in the receiving end become perishable and last only for a while.
The nook encompasses a fair range of digital book formats, such as PDF files and free ebooks or epubs that are widely available in the internet. Upon buying for an ideal ebook reader, it was crucial that I see both sides of the fence and Amazon’s kindle was more restrictive in supporting third party contents, or books made by ebook publishers other than Amazon. I also had problems reading books in PDF formats. I know the digital publishing business is burgeoning but I’m still surprised when I find plenty of books in ...