Kindle 3 Vs Nook: Product review

Kindle 3 Vs Nook: Product reviews

In every good e-reader, all will look for 5 main things, before I purchase

Cost for the reader & the ebooks I download
Storage space
Battery life
Look & feel
Weight

I looked at the two most competing e-reader categories - Kindle 3 & Nook, before buying 1 for me. Here is the details & summary of what I found... Hope it is useful to you.

Kindle Vs Nook

Kindle 3: Advantages

Kindle beats heads-down Nook in the storage (3GB Vs 2GB), and battery life (without WiFi: 1month Vs 10 days), and the Kindle reader is cheaper by 10 bucks ($139/$189 Vs $149/$199). But you would have to spend money in shipping your favorite Kindle, but you can get a Nook for free. Or you can buy an additional $25 worth of Super saver shipping items from Amazon, and get Kindle shipped for free. I don't really bother about the extra $15 (or the shipping cost) I might have to spend here. The Kindle looks good, sleek and thinner than the Nook, and this is something important for me to consider, esp. since I will be taking it out with me. Kindle is much lighter than the Nook and I love it.

Nook advantages

Nook seems to beat Kindle in terms of free shipping & book selections, as per their respective websites, but I don't really bother about those, as I have all my books in Amazon. If you are Chess or sudoku buff, then you get these apps with the Nook. It has a color touch pad at the bottom too.

Neutral

In both, you might have to spend about $9.99 per book, they seem to have played it neutral here.

Our decision

No brainer for us, Kindle 3 is my e-reader, as it scores over Nook on 4 of 5 critical things for me. On the cost, I am okay spending the extra $15 for the advantages I get.

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Detailed Comparisons

	Kindle WiFi & WiFi+3G	Nook WiFi & WiFi+3G
Cost
Price	$139 for WiFi, and $189 for 3G+WiFi	$149 for WiFi, and $199 for 3G+WiFi
Shipping	No, by default. But buy super saver items for $25	Free

Product details
Weight	8.5 ounces (241 grams)	11.6 ounces (328 grams)
Screen size	6" diagonal	6" diagonal
Overall size	7.5" x 4.8" x 0.335"	7.7" x 4.9" x 0.5"
Warranty	1yr limited warrantly and service	1yr standard warranty

Network connectivity
WiFi
WiFi connectivity	Yes	Yes
Free WiFi access	Yes. At AT&T hotspots.	Yes. At AT&T hotspots.
3G	No/ Yes, based on the model you choose	No/ Yes, , based on the model you choose

Power options
Battery life
WiFi off	1+ month	10 days
WiFi on	3 weeks	Not Available
Charging
USB	Yes	Yes
Power adaptor	Yes	Yes
Full charge time	~4.5hrs with adaptor	~3.5hrs with adaptor

Reading experience
Heating up	No
Under sunlight	Easy	Easy
Storage	~3500 ebooks (~3GB for users of total 4GB)	1500 ebooks (2GB)
Archive	All books bought from Kindle store are archived in your Kindle library.
Narrator	Yes	No
PDF support	Yes. Native	Yes. Native
Views	Both potrait & landscape
Microsoft .doc support	Mail to Kindle Id and view it.	No

Native Localized text support
Chinese (Trad & Simplified)	Yes
Japanese	Yes
Korean	Yes
Cyrillic (such as Russian)	Yes
Greek	Yes
Latin	Yes

Selections
Best sellers	107 of 111 New York times best sellers
Total books	670,000+ ebooks	1,000,000+ ebooks
Book prices	80% books @ $9.99	Many at $9.99
Best sellers prices	65% @ $9.99
Free books	Pre-1923's 1.8million books	500,000+ ebooks
Free samples	Yes. Read first few chapters free	Yes

Other Features
Ebooks sharing		Yes
Web surfing & check emails		Yes
Wikipedia access	Yes	Yes. Through browser
Dictionary	Yes. Inbuilt New Oxford American Dictionary	Yes. Inbuilt Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary
Sharing in Facebook	Yes
Sharing in Twitter	Yes
Play Games		Yes. Chess & Sudoku
MP3 play	Yes	Yes

Security
Password protection	Yes