When the e-readers have just started to become popular, I was very heavily on the anti-digital-book side. Being a bookworm from an early age, I could not understand how someone could trade that amazing feeling when you flip through a new book for a lifeless gray tablet.
My lifestyle in recent years became a reason to get one of those tablets myself - moving from country to country with severe baggage limits makes it difficult to carry along an expansive book collection. Now I can download a ridiculous (3,500) amount of books to my one Kindle.
I have yet to get used to this new device. But there are several features that I already like.
1. The screen is really interesting. It almost looks like there's a sticker with text on the display. The Kindle uses E-Ink technology, Pearl that I found great for reading.
2. It's very easy to transfer personal documents to Kindle - just email them from the approved email address. What I didn't realize at first is that in some instances Amazon charges you for those transfers unless you send your documents to (name)@free.kindle.com. It would be nice if they specified it more clearly on My Kindle page on Amazon.
3. It's very light, the menu is easy to navigate, and new purchases take less than a minute to get to your Kindle.
Yesterday there was an article on Mashable stating that Nook beat Kindle in consumer reviews for the first time ever.
Even though they both are e-readers, these devices have many different features that makes them difficult to compare.
New Nook has a color display, internet access and thousands of apps that make it more comparable to iPad than Kindle, whose primary function is still delivering easy access to e-books. At least until the new Kindle version (to rival Apple, according to some sources) comes out later this year.
Disclaimer: Amazon did not pay me to write this post. All expressed opinions are my own.
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