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The Kindle has one feature that the Nook does not have: Electronic delivery of personal documents. You can't email a word doc or PDF to myname@bn.com and have i
by ansy 15y ago
The Kindle has one feature that the Nook does not have: Electronic delivery of personal documents. You can't email a word doc or PDF to myname@bn.com and have it converted and delivered to your device. You have to save it from a computer, convert it, plug in the Nook, and copy the file over.
For book readers that might not matter. But it can be pretty attractive if you go beyond reading books by using something like Instapaper to "bookmark" articles throughout the day, then have them all automatically on the Kindle.
This can be the feature that makes a huge difference once you start to use it.
- reaganing 15y agoYeah. Instapaper and emailing files, along with already having a large amount of Kindle purchases, are the reasons I've stuck with Kindle.
- bad_user 15y agoI also have Instapaper articles delivered to my Kindle. It's pretty awesome but it isn't a hard to implement feature - why don't they implement it?
- WalterBright 15y agoI wish the Kindle (and ipad) could browse the shared file directories on my LAN. This is a glaring and inexplicable deficiency.
- rmc 15y agoYou can browse website and download files there. So you could set up a simple web server on your machine (since this is HN I going to assume this is easy for you!) and download files there. It's great that you can browse Project Gutenberg on the device and download the Kindle formatted .mobi files directly and import them. It's like a Free (as in Public Domain) book shop!
- losvedir 15y agoHa, yeah, I'd assume Walter Bright would be able to do that... :-) But he shouldn't have to! We want him spending less time fiddling around with a home network and more time working on cool things like D.
- achompas 15y agoThis was the dealbreaker for me. I hate plugging devices in and use Instapaper a lot, so I chose the Kindle even though the Simple Touch looked nicer.