Comments on: Guest Post: Why I Chose the Barnes and Noble Nook http://www.simplemobilereview.com/guest-post-why-i-chose-the-barnes-and-noble-nook/ Reviews of Mobile Devices and Gadgets Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh http://www.simplemobilereview.com/guest-post-why-i-chose-the-barnes-and-noble-nook/comment-page-1/#comment-2224 Josh Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:28:06 +0000 http://www.simplemobilereview.com/?p=2673#comment-2224 I'd agree that I'd much rather have 6 licenses to share, but the very simple built in functionality is fantastic. I'm actually very curious to see where licensing of digital media goes in the future, and hope that online retailers will eventually develop a system much like what StarDock is *attempting* to do for software. Essentially, you'd treat a book just like a regular book. Purchasable, transferable, lendable... just digital, as opposed to physical. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be fantastic. On a slightly related note; I mentioned my cracked button. I called up B&N support today in what is the absolute least painful support/RMA call I've ever made. It took about 3 minutes to get everything verified, and they are 2-day shipping a new Nook to me, at which point I can transfer my memory over, and send my defective one back. No extra charge for the rapid replacement. Fantastic. I’d agree that I’d much rather have 6 licenses to share, but the very simple built in functionality is fantastic. I’m actually very curious to see where licensing of digital media goes in the future, and hope that online retailers will eventually develop a system much like what StarDock is *attempting* to do for software.

Essentially, you’d treat a book just like a regular book. Purchasable, transferable, lendable… just digital, as opposed to physical. I’m not holding my breath, but it would be fantastic.

On a slightly related note; I mentioned my cracked button. I called up B&N support today in what is the absolute least painful support/RMA call I’ve ever made. It took about 3 minutes to get everything verified, and they are 2-day shipping a new Nook to me, at which point I can transfer my memory over, and send my defective one back.

No extra charge for the rapid replacement.

Fantastic.

]]> By: Rod Simmons http://www.simplemobilereview.com/guest-post-why-i-chose-the-barnes-and-noble-nook/comment-page-1/#comment-2221 Rod Simmons Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:39:56 +0000 http://www.simplemobilereview.com/?p=2673#comment-2221 What your saying is 100% accurate but I feel Amazon needs a better model for sharing. I want to share books with my friends, in fact <a href="http://www.simplemobilereview.com/sharing-my-kindle-experience-literally/" rel="nofollow">I loaned my buddy my Kindle</a> to try out and he will read all my books before I get it back. Adding someone to my account is not the best method for sharing although it will work in a small family situation. I hope some day I could be talking to a stranger with a kindle about books and just share a book with them for 15 or 30 days with out trading personal information. Maybe just by sending to a Kindle ID or something. I agree sharing is possible on the Kindle but not in the same clean way it is on the Nook. What your saying is 100% accurate but I feel Amazon needs a better model for sharing. I want to share books with my friends, in fact I loaned my buddy my Kindle to try out and he will read all my books before I get it back. Adding someone to my account is not the best method for sharing although it will work in a small family situation.

I hope some day I could be talking to a stranger with a kindle about books and just share a book with them for 15 or 30 days with out trading personal information. Maybe just by sending to a Kindle ID or something.
I agree sharing is possible on the Kindle but not in the same clean way it is on the Nook.

]]> By: tuxgirl http://www.simplemobilereview.com/guest-post-why-i-chose-the-barnes-and-noble-nook/comment-page-1/#comment-2215 tuxgirl Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:43:06 +0000 http://www.simplemobilereview.com/?p=2673#comment-2215 In discussing the issue of sharing books with your brother, you say "Any other e-reader would force us to buy two copies of the same book." Actually, that's not true. It is possible to share books with the kindle, as you automatically have 6 licenses for the Kindle book. You have to at least temporarily allow the other person's kindle onto your account, but if you regularly swap books, the best solution is to create a shared account for the kindles that you fund with gift cards. Then, both of you have permanent access to all the books and don't have to worry about whether or not you'll make it through the book in the next 14 days. If you don't want to be on the same account permanently, many people add a friend to their account temporarily, download the books to their friend's kindle, then deregister the friend's kindle from their account. Either way, saying that you wouldn't be able to share with your brother with any other reader is a misunderstanding. In discussing the issue of sharing books with your brother, you say “Any other e-reader would force us to buy two copies of the same book.” Actually, that’s not true. It is possible to share books with the kindle, as you automatically have 6 licenses for the Kindle book. You have to at least temporarily allow the other person’s kindle onto your account, but if you regularly swap books, the best solution is to create a shared account for the kindles that you fund with gift cards. Then, both of you have permanent access to all the books and don’t have to worry about whether or not you’ll make it through the book in the next 14 days.

If you don’t want to be on the same account permanently, many people add a friend to their account temporarily, download the books to their friend’s kindle, then deregister the friend’s kindle from their account.

Either way, saying that you wouldn’t be able to share with your brother with any other reader is a misunderstanding.

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