Kindle vs. Nook vs. iPad: Which e-book reader should you buy?

CRAVE - CNET ^ | September 4, 2010 6:29 PM PDT | John P. Falcone

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(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

Editors' note (September 3, 2010): This story has been updated to reflect the release of the new third-generation Kindle models and the announcement of new Sony Readers, among other new details.

Yes, it's true: now is a better time than ever to be in the market for an e-book reader. Hardware prices are more affordable than ever, and more titles are available electronically--anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions, depending on whether you include the huge library of free public-domain titles--than at any point in history.

The market has consolidated around a handful of major players: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Apple. Recently updated products from the first three include excellent options in the sub-$200 (and even sub-$150) price ranges. Also, a flood of new reading-centric apps continues to solidify the

Apple iPad's position as the premium media tablet of choice.

With these new variables, now is a perfect time to re-evaluate the e-book reader landscape and figure out which product is best for you. If you're an experienced shopper, you can jump straight to our list of top e-book readers; however, everyone else can consult this quick guide, which boils the purchase decision down to six questions:

[MrEdd]

You are looking for the Notion Adam.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh,...thanks...sounds good.

i would want a Linux version...but will check on it!

[BunnySlippers]

Okay, I Goodled. Barnes & Nobel is going under. Ron Burkle rumored to be buying it:

http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=barnes+noble&ncl=dPcX8hzxBVL6pvMoR4JgoCfmkGyQM

[Mamzelle]

Who is Ron Buckle? Is he one of the Marxist "Center for American Progress" billionaires or just a guy who likes making money?

A battle for control of B&N does not mean it is going under. It just might end up better off.

How I'd love for it to be run by some libertarians!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have been looking for someone to help them by buying them out....or a capital inflow.

See this:

Barnes & Noble may struggle to find a buyer: analysts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Burkle is famous out here in California,....a Clinton buddy ...owner of the Ralph’s and “Food for less” grocery chain....and other stuff.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks...

[RachelFaith]

How can a car or a bus or a plane replace the gentle snort of a horse when brushing it.

Seriously... Time is always moving forward and leaving the past behind.

[BunnySlippers]

Ron Burkle is Bill Clinton’s friend. He owns grocery chains in LA. He gave Jesse Jackson’s mistress a job and took care of her.

He is a playboy and has Clinton along for the ride.

[Eye of Unk]

HDMI?

Sounds like it could play Bluray movies.

Again I don’t know anything about these, and truthfully maybe because I’m an old fart all those Amazon commercials about the kindle never told me what it was, and I just figured it out recently.

This would be a good tool for a survivalist and or an ordinary person needing very portable information, especially medical, survival techniques in harsh conditions and even guerrilla resistance warfare.

Also in a scenario where all communication is censored and only news being delivered by a storage device it would be an effective tool for an underground to communicate.

In a fashion would be a return to the newsreels at the movie house during WW2, the internet gets shut down by an Obama born society but with millions of these readers and a delivery system of daily or weekly news and forums even FreeRepublic would survive.

I’m not asking for much, I’m just thinking of the possibilities.

[RachelFaith]

ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME !!!

I had a 720, sold it and got a 728! I still have it. And even as of just a couple years ago, when I would take it out, people stopped and stared.

If Apple or anyone would do one of those AGAIN, but with an iOS or Android. Or even a real OS. I would be ALL OVER IT.

It fits in my purse, back pocket, easy to carry, easy to type. WAY WAY ahead of its time.

Please Lord, let SOMEONE make an updated modern handheld like the 720/8.

Amen!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

One of the great things about Southern California is seeing all of the old cars lovingly restored and running on the freeways....Today on the 57 a sweptback Chevrolet from the late 40s flew by me doing 60 or 70.

Might have have done a little extra work on the engine.

[RachelFaith]

Old CARS are one thing. But Paper Books are Hundreds of years old and thus a crowded 4 lane road with horse and buggies would be the correct matching vision. Not an old care or two, but 60,000 horses and their dropping on a major highway. Picture THAT and then you will KNOW why Tech IS the future. The real problem is people do NOT read as much as they should, and we’ve dumbed down as a culture. Ebooks are trying to restore that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Back to my quest for Guns, Germs and Steel...Sony's Book Store has it:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

* by Jared M. Diamond .....List Price: $16.95

$11.86

Save 30.0% off List Price

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Product Details

• Published by

  Norton Paperbacks

• Publish Date

  March 31, 1999 

• Print ISBN

  0393317552

• eBook ISBN

  9780393069228

• Imprint

  Norton Paperbacks

• Filesize

  847.64 KB

• Number of Pages

  528

[BunnySlippers]

I listened to it on audio.

[SunkenCiv]

I bought the kindle 3. Free internet with accesss to freerepublic forum

Heeeey, interesting!!! Tell me more...

[SunkenCiv]

I like the overall idea of an ebook reader because of the things it can do that a book can’t, namely, text search and carrying many multiple titles without a weight penalty. That said, I probably won’t save up to buy one.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hey you are late to the party....

Anyway...you read this one?

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, and thanks Ernest!