Nook Color Review: The Ebook Reader That Looks Like A Tablet

Considering that book giant Barnes & Noble only introduced the Nook in the fall of 2009, it came as a pleasant surprise that only a year later a Nook Color edition is already out. Touted as the “reader’s tablet”, we’ll find out in this Nook Color review just what the Barnes & Noble Nook Color offers, whether as a tablet as an ebook reader.

Size. Compared to the e-ink version of the Nook ereader, the Nook color is a tad bigger and heavier. Weighing a solid 15.8 ounces, it is 8.1 inches long, with a width of 5 inches and a depth of 0.5 inch. The frontportion of the device consists of hard plastic while the back has a smooth, rubber backing.

Design. Throw out your expectations of the Nook Color being just another ebook reader, only with a colored screen; this ereader may easily be mistaken for a tablet PC. Unlike the usual ereaders which use e-ink technology, this one comes with a 7-inch full color LED-backlit IPS display. This type of display is in fact, the same kind of display technology that Apple uses on the iPad and Mac. The Nook Color though, is enhanced with Barnes & Nobles custom VividView Technology, a kind of screen laminating technique that serves to reduce the glare.

Performance. The Nook Color’s program is based on the Android 2.1, the widely-used operating system running on a big number of smartphones and tablets in the market today. In this Barnes & Noble device, the Android-based software delivers the goods.

Nook Color users are all praises for the ereader’s fast performance, quick page turns, intuitive and responsive touchscreen, and crisp, clear images and text. Even browsing through PDFs and picture galleries are said to be a total breeze.

What’s New

In coming out with a colored ebook reading device, Barnes & Noble has also made sure that the attention that it’s gotten so far is not all hype. The Nook Color now has added functionality including web browsing, Pandora music app, email, and video playbacks, and it’s also designed to work with B & N’s new features and technologies.

The Nook Kids brand has over a hundred fully-illustrated children’s ebooks that will come alive when read on the Nook Color, and the NookFriends technology is a way of sharing meaningful passages to other Nook users through Facebook and Twitter. Then of course, Barnes & Noble also retains its book sharing feature, the exclusive LendMe technology.

Barnes & Noble Nook Color Review: What’s the Verdict?

The company has really gone out of its way to release an ebook reader that’s not only sleek and feature-packed, but is reasonably-priced as well. For 9, you already get a gadget that let’s you do not only ebook reading but a lot of other functions as well.

But of course, it’s far from being a perfect device. Its battery life for instance, is too short for an ereader. The 8 hours it offer pales in comparison with battery performance of other ereaders which use e-ink. Also, even with its VividView treatment, the LCD display could still get reflective and possibly even cause eye strain after a few hours.

The bottom line of this Nook Color review is that it’s all a matter of preference. The Nook Color is certainly ideal if you like its tablet-like features, and if your family’s reading fare mostly consists of magazines, children’s books, cookbooks and other content that requires color. However, for long form reading of mostly text ebooks, e-ink ebook readers are still the better choice.

Is the Barnes & Noble Nook Color a tablet computer or an e-book reader? Consumer Reports takes a look at the new 0 Nook Color. Find out more about e-readers and tablet computers on our website: www.consumerreports.org

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With the decision not to buy Apple IPAD or Barnes and Noble ebook reader meal, I launched and directed the last Amazon Kindle eReader. Below you can read my opinion Kindle electronic book reader for this popular device electronics.

The Kindle is probably the most popular of all ebook readers and there are a number of reasons why it is so. First, the six-inch screen offers excellent clarity in the text. The special technology called “E-Ink” ensures that the display of books on the aircraft are authentic, from the look of a page in a real book. There is no glare, because it would improve from a camera with LCD screen, such as the IPAD and the contrast of the Kindle 2 is compared to the original. Even in bright sunlight, there is no reflection on the beach this section shall not be a problem.

Better yet is the ability to hold 3,500 books on the device. When you consider that the new Kindle on the length and width of a typical pencil, it is much smaller than the implementation of all these books around!

I found the download of new books very quickly, in fact, it lasted about one minute on the high-Fi connection. There is no need for a computer – use it, just download directly from the ebook reader. The button layout is simple and easy to use and is quickly turning the pages. The Kindle is ready to use straight from the box and is very friendly.

Overall I am satisfied with my purchase, and taking into account the 630,000 books added daily, and the first £ 8,000,000 of free pre-1923, I’ll be reading for a very long time! The Kindle eBook Reader review is written from a technophobe and so when I get it, nobody should be able to do so. Highly recommended. Now click on the links below to learn more about the Kindle eBook Reader and others.

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Barnes and Noble Nook sprung a surprise package to capitalize on the holiday season. Released on 30th November 2009, the Nook e-book reader takes its place of pride as the first electronic book reader to be based on the Android platform. What catches your attention are ‘Over a million titles to choose from’, ’1000s of free e-books’ ‘Endless shelf space’ ‘Lend e-books to friends’ and so on that compels you to read further. Apparently ripped right out of Amazon Kindle’s master playbook, both are priced at $259, which is more than just a coincidence. The similarities are not restricted to the price tag alone and extend to other features like the off-white plastic frame, the 6-inch E-ink screen, and the same ability to display photos, play music and enjoy free cellular connection to download books. Both are also compatible with iPhone or computers. The areas where the Nook obviously scores are the color touch-sensitive screen for navigation, wireless downloads via AT&T’s 3G Internet or Wi-Fi. The memory can be expanded with the Micro SD expansion slot while the replaceable battery and the ‘Lend Me’ feature obviously have the consumers swaying towards the Nook. The gadget worth being excited about has been designed with the consumer in mind. Excitedly christened as ‘the king of connectivity and content’, the new kid on the block reserves the winner’s place for itself. It has been said that an early Christmas shopper, who has smartly saved the receipt for his Kindle 2, may just opt for the equally affordable option hitting the shelves, and would have plenty of reason to do so. Perhaps the biggest edge that Nook has up its sleeve in the e-reader marketplace is its in-the-store support. With over 700 retailers, as many as 40,000 retail advisers, and a site that is counted among the top 20 on the Internet, Nook surely is in an enviable position to reach its prospective customers. All you have to do is to take a Nook into a Barnes& Noble and you have access to tailored content via Wi-Fi. What’s more, you will also have access to the entire text of each of the books in the firm’s eBook store – albeit for only the duration that you are in the store. As company sources believe, the bookstore has an extremely crucial role to play and is going to be a catalyst for demand generation. In fact, as the world’s largest bookstore, this surely is an enormous edge. Customers will not really be up to downloading the E-Books, but will actually stream them employing a technology that the company is not too eager to talk about as yet. If you are wondering whether you’ll have to buy your e-books at Barnes and Noble, let this be put to rest. Nook supports ePub and so you are free to use e-books from multiple vendors. For all those who think that Nook was rushed just to steal some of Kindle DX’s holiday cheer, well they sure have their reasons to be the devil’s advocate. To begin with, the touch screen is at times non-responsive, and tries the patience of the user. Its screen is achingly slower than that of Kindle 2 and takes 3 seconds to turn a page, which is 3 times longer than its competitor. In case you are in the middle of a sentence, even 3 seconds can prove disruptive. You got to give it to Nook for adding the city-library feature of lending books. Yes, like most friends do, you can actually lend a book from your Nook to another Nook owner for a period of two weeks. It is here that the fine print cannot be overlooked. This ‘Lend Me’ feature can be used only with others using Barnes and Noble application software, after the publisher okays it. The book disappears from your Nook while your friend is reading it in his. The built-in Wi-Fi of Nook at times fails to notify the owner of actually being in a hot spot. The Kindle appears to many, as being faster, thinner and lighter than the Nook. Yet with the Nook, you are allowed to judge a book by its cover, thanks to designers like Jack Spade, Kate Spade and Jonathan Adler. William Lynch, president of Barnes and Noble, sums the Nook up by touting its most transportable ePub compatibility, allowing the reader to buy any book, at any time, and at any place. This should give you a clear idea of the Nook, though for any other queries that you may have, turn to e-reader blog. Or for the latest from the world of e-readers, log on to e-reader forum.

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Flaubertâ??s Parrot by Julian Barnes is a book I have had queuing up to read for some time. I donâ??t know why I have never got round to reading it. Perhaps itâ??s because of the overtly â??literaryâ? tag that was attached to it when it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. I am not against â??literaryâ? fiction. Far from it: indeed I aspire to write it, after a fashion. My avoidance of Flaubertâ??s Parrot was never conscious, but was probably a result of thinking that I knew what to expect â?? word play, experimentation with form, biography, dissection of the writerâ??s role, relationship between art and life, in fact all the mundane things that your average novelist has for breakfast. The less than average ones, by the way, always have corn flakes. It is their convention. Having just finished the book, I can declare that I found all I expected and much, much, much more.

Julian Barnes has his character, a doctor called Geoffrey Braithwaite, consider various literary ideas. One, which only really applies to writing prose fiction, is the relation between form and content. Most novels, certainly most pulp fiction, never address this, since the authors usually present apparently literal material merely literally or, perhaps even more commonly, fantastical material literally. Generally within some recognisable genre, these offerings tend to preoccupy themselves with simple narration. In effect, most novels are presented in pictorial form, like a comic strip running a frame at a time through the authorâ??s mind, with only minimally extended commentary. Their presentation is invariably linear, with the writerâ??s aim to spoon-feed the reader with bite-sized chinks of easily digestible plot in a context aimed at simplifying the experience.

Flaubertâ??s Parrot is the polar opposite of this. The only plot is Flaubertâ??s life, both physical and intellectual, alongside that of his enthusiastic intended biographer, the doctor, Geoffrey. Geoffreyâ??s research, notes, speculations and musings provide the bookâ??s utterly original form. Since the adultery of Flaubertâ??s fictional Madam Bovary provided the scandal that created his fame, evidence of his attitudes towards women and sex in his own life provides a fascinating backdrop against which we can assess the authorâ??s motives and desires. The death and revealed adultery of the narratorâ??s own wife provides motive for his obsession with Flaubert and his femme fatale, and, quite unexpectedly, this culminates in a truly moving moment of emotional empathy that the author, Barnes, not Flaubert, not the narrator, evokes in his reader.

This emotional intensity developed as a real surprise towards the end of the book. Through it, Julian Barnes achieves a perfect marriage of form and content, the finest I have ever encountered. No matter how much we analyse the creative process, it is our emotional lives that provide the stuff of art. The writer moulds it, contextualises it, formalises it, but eventually the rawness of the experience, the chasm of bereavement, the hollow of betrayal, the consonance of love that makes us laugh or weep as we read, and Julian Barnes provokes both responses in this beautiful book.

There are some stunning moments of virtuosity. There are, for instance, three concatenated chronologies of Flaubertâ??s life â?? an encyclopedia of success, a record of failure and a personal diary. This is a masterstroke, effectively answering the rhetorical question of why we remain interested in the author, even when we consider a work as iconic as Madame Bovary. The narratorâ??s dissection of â??correctnessâ? in fiction is utterly poignant, especially so when we cannot even agree on the detail of reality. And so what if the writer decides to change things around? Isnâ??t it supposed to be fiction?

But the enduring memory of Flaubertâ??s Parrot is that masterstroke of marrying motives via Falubertâ??s real life, whatever that was, the imagined world of his femme fatale and the apparently real life of Geoffrey Braithwaite, with its own experience of adultery and bereavement. And then, of course, we have Geoffreyâ??s obsession with Flaubert, through which we reflect on the ideas of the self and its selfishness. Stunningly beautiful.

And the parrot? Probably a fake. Or perhaps just faked. Or then againâ?¦.