Barnes & Noble - NOOK Color

I went to Barnes and Noble on Black Friday. There, I tested the newly released Nook color. First, I did not like the original at all. The thought of that small of a touch screen was a turn-off. Secondly, the ladies there showed me a 20-minute demonstration. After that, I was hooked. They are the same quality where ever you shop at. It is all touch screen which means bigger buttons so fatter fingers can still use it with ease. It is also great because you can surf the internet, WiFi provided, and play a few games. If you are near a B&N store you can preview the book or even read the book for one hour like a demonstration. If you are near your public library and own a library card, you can 'check' books out for around 3 weeks depending on your library. Either way, this is better that the kindle and all Sony's. One last thing, do not buy the screen protector. With what the screen is, the protector will assume that the screen has been touched. After that, its only a matter of days until the screen doesn't react to touching, I know this from experience :). Thats all about the greak NOOKcolor.

So, on the 11th of this month (February) I bought a Kindle 3. I was pleased with it til I saw the reviews on the nook color by Barnes & Noble. I wanted one, so I took the Kindle back and asked for the nook color last night. They didn't have one at my closest store to me, so I got something else. Today, I called a Best Buy in the next county, and they had one and held it for me. After I switched the Kindle (which I got back earlier) and got the color. After I got home and played around with it, I see this as a great eReader, and a great machine all around. The shopping is easy, set up a snap, and Pandora so I can read to my favorite music. The battery life is a little suspect (from what I read), however, I think that is a little far fetched. The backlit screen does not hurt the eyes, and the videos are smooth. I am happy now that i got my "Red Rider BB Gun", so to speak.

I love my Nook Color Touch! I wanted a small device to store and carry my knitting patterns with me with good reading capabilities. I got more than I realized. Love the fact I could increase memory with an SD Mini Chip (32 GB), excellent sound for listening to music, beautiful color to show off the grandpuppies pictures, Internet access, Pandora, e-books, and of course all my patterns/knitting books were transferred to the NC...all in one handy place! Battery life is very good too. I have recommended the NC to many friends.

I Love this. Way better than Kindel. My husband loves that I can read in bed without a light. I put books in my wish list so I will always have one available.

This is really a great product. If you are looking for an ereader and your enjoy reading magazines and newspapers as well reading books this really fits the bill. This allows you to do things with ebookd and other that you just can't with the limitations of eink on devices like the kindle. the screen is brililant, it really just wows, you. vibrant colors. Web browsing is really nice on this, pages load up fast. displays pictures and pages in rich color Reading experience was actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I own the original nook so I was a bit leary on reading from an LCD screen But it comes with a variety of different background, quick adjustable brightnessn access. The text is sharp, the contrast is fantastic, so I actually have been enjoying reading on it. Especially in a dimmly lit room. If you have Children this would be a must, the childrens books are richly colored, the "read to me" is a great feature andit's a real voice, unlike that creepy computerized voice on the Kindle, Magazines were really cool. Definitly a different take on reading one. The jump to article" bar is great, the display was beatiful. I really enjoyed reading magazines on this device. The response was fast, no waiting on pages or icons to load up, everything is just fast. The Nook Color is full of features and organization tools and cutomizable home screens, 3 in total. You can touch a word you don't know and have a dialog box pop up asking for "dictionary, google, wiki" options, you can highlight passages and email them or Facebook or twitter them I'm really in love with this thing. In conclusion if you are looking for an ereader that can do alot of the functinality as the iPad ebook reader part of it, and actually even more, at half the price, this is a great great option. You ca

I ordered a Nook Color during the pre-order and just received it on Friday. I've been using it a few days and frankly, it rocks!! I'm not sure where the other reviewer saw theirs, but this thing is not sluggish at all...page turns are fast fast fast. The browser is fabulous it displays pages as they should look and it's has a 1024 x 600 resolution display....you'd be hard pressed to purchase a device billed as a "tablet" for that price and with that resolution. It is an LCD screen so IMHO is NOT as nice for reading a novel as e-ink. I purchased this for it's ability to read magazines and also to web browse. I have been reading a novel on it also and it's not bad...but again not as nice as e-ink for pure reading. My only complaint is that the screen even on lowest possible brightness is still a bit on the bright side. Hopefully a software update will fix this, because an LCD screen is probably just fine for reading a novel if you can get the brightness down. It browses the web fabulously...it's got a responsive capacitive touch screen, the keyboard is fast (I own an android phone and this thing runs circles around that as far as speed). Do remember if you're fingers are cold...the capacitive screen is a little tough to get going...so I did have a couple times where my hands were cold and the screen didn't respond...once warmed up...no problem. Maybe it's because I've the the android phone, but I didn't find it difficult to figure out how to use at all. touch the screen in the middle you get options for changing text size, brightness. Touch the wi-fi symbol at the bottom you can turn off wi-fi and screen rotation if you like. Touch the N button and you will get your home screen which you can customize with your own background and add you favorite books. Honestly, this deivce is really polished. B&N did lots of work testing the user interface and I don't find it difficult at all. They even enabled just a single tap for page turns...since it gets tiring to "swipe" all the time. The magazine reader is really nice....has all photos and ads (what's a magazine without ads and photos?). Is this a perfect solution for all your reading needs and if you purchase this will you never ever have to buy another paper book/magazine? I doubt it....can you use your laptop to do all this stuff? Sure. It's an awesome compact solution that's easy to carry around, you don't have to boot to check the weather, your email or read a book or magazine and it's surprisingly polished. If you don't care about being able to run flash, this is great. Also it does youtube and is just fine.!

I have now had my nookColor for 3 days so this is only an initial review, I'll come back and add to it after the warrant runs out. As of right now, this is beyond what I could have hoped for in an eReader with features. eBooks: They download quickly and the controls are very intuitive. You can set the screen colors and fonts to adjust to your own preferences. The books are stored in an easy to use library and also backed up by B&N (if you purchase from them). As a test I reset my nook after downloading a purchased book (don't worry, I had a copy on my PC's hard drive). After the reset I re-entered my username and password and my nookColor quickly updated and the book was back where it belonged in the library. The other feature that I haven't had time to try out is using it to read other types of ebooks. Very excited to see this as other online stores offer books in other formats that can be cheaper than B&N. Multimedia/Pandora: I copied quite a few high resolution photos as well as 2 mp4 movies to a microSD card. They all displayed amazingly well and the movies played flawlessly. These were full length movies backed up to an mp4 format using handbrake. While the movie player is very basic it does the job and makes this a 7-inch movie player on top of being an eReader. The screen is amazingly clear and the movies flowed smoothly without hic-ups. The photos were quickly loaded and clearly displayed. Being able to listen to Pandora with my own customized music while reading was an amazing bonus. WiFi: It took about 30 seconds for me to completely configure the nookColor to my home network. It retains all pertinent information and quickly connects even after a full shut down. Web-browser: While it does not yet have flash player support the vast majority of the internet works just fine. It is based off of the android system for a cell phone so some pages automatically load as mobile. When using the browser I was able to log into facebook, my bank account, my hotmail, my att.net mail, gmail and youtube with no problems. The screens zoom and pan feature is nice so you can zero in on portions of a webpage and more accurately hit links. Typing on it was a bit tedious for me, but I have never been very comfortable with touch screens so I'm going to chalk that up to my error. Unit: As some have mentioned this tablet has about twice the weight of the kindle, which means it weighs a bit more than a full length paperback novel. Unless you have a degenerative bone disease you should be just fine holding this table to read your ebooks. The battery life isn't anywhere near as long as the kindle but it was more than sufficient for my needs. The entire design is sleek and I found it conformed well to being held in either landscape or portrait.

Debated between the Nook and the Kindle. Got the Nook Color for Christmas- Have been very pleased. I'm a big reader and have devoured 10 books since that time. Love that its portable and easy to use. I take it with me everywhere. Heavier than the Kindle, but not a big deal. Does many things- some of them great and others so-so. Can go on the internet while taking a break from reading- nice plus. It also holds photos and other downloads. Since it has an LCD screen you don't need to purchase a separate reading light. Huge bonus for those us us that read at night and/or in bed (less disturbing the spouse!) Downloading the books is automatic from B&N. Love the ability to highlight words and phrases to go back to and the ability to read several books at once. The biggest advantage of the Nook Color is the ability to download books from the public library! This can't be underestimated. Once you download the Adobe software its simple to download the books and then drag them onto the Nook. This feature makes the Nook a winner. The only real downsides: the battery only lasts about 4-5 hours of reading time, and the directions for library use are not included (had to go on the net to figure it out- guess B&N doesn't want you to "borrow" books for free!) BTW- Do yourself a favor and charge it up before you go to the setup mode. The devise has a weird quirk of being hyper sensitive when using while plugged into the wall, so its easier to then go to B&N and get the most recent updates once its been charged. Setup after that is much easier. Pros: Easy to use and read Easy downloading Library borrowing ability Ability to surf the net Photo storage with removable memory Cons: No clear directions on how to set up library use Battery life not very long I would recommend this to any book lover!