![]() ![]() If you’re considering buying a Kindle Touch, we strongly suggest you give one of these a whirl first. ![]() Amazon in the UK offers nothing like it (the similar Paperwhite Kindle is only available to US customers), the price is good, matching the Kindle Touch at £109, and the support for Adobe Digital Editions gives it another critical advantage. We loaded some manuals and magazine pages on the Simple Touch and found them unreadable, with no support for pinch-to-zoom, panning or option to reflow the text.įor the business of reading novels and non-fiction texts purchased in ebook format, however, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight poses a serious challenge to Amazon’s Kindles. The Nook has nothing to match Amazon’s X-Ray feature, and support for PDF reading is woeful. There’s no audio support, which will be a turn-off for fans of audiobooks. Don’t get too excited by the latter, though, as it’s severely limited: you can only lend a book once to one person, and then for only 14 days. Other nice touches include the ability to require a password for purchases – a help for parents of curious children with mischievous tendencies – and the LendMe system, which allows you to loan designated titles to friends who also own Nooks. NOTE: If you connect your NOOK to a Windows PC, the PC might display a dialog box asking if. Drag the files you want to transfer onto the NOOK drive. Unlike the Kindle, the Nook is compatible with Adobe’s ebook DRM system, and when we plugged it in via the micro-USB socket in its bottom edge, Adobe Digital Editions picked it up straight away, allowing us to transfer books bought in the WHSmith and Waterstones stores, as well as texts borrowed from our local library’s ebook loans website. When you connect your NOOK to your personal computer, your NOOK will appear as a new disk drive called NOOK on your personal computer. However, we can’t imagine you’ll be stuck for reading material, and even if the Barnes & Noble store doesn’t have what you’re looking for, there are alternatives. The Nook GlowLight is the updated version of the first ebook reader to introduce a built-in light for night time reading before Kobo and Amazon followed suit. ![]() We can’t pass judgement on how well UK-specific content is represented as the service wasn’t live at the time of writing. The first plank is the Barnes & Noble bookstore, which arrives in the UK at the same time as the first of the new ebook readers, and has 2.5 million titles to choose from. The key to the success of any ebook reader, however, is content, and on this front Barnes & Noble looks to have it cracked. ![]()
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