Amazon Kindle

[TinkTanker]

I just walk around pretending I'm holding a PADD from ST:TNG and I don't have to deal with that delightfully quaint paper.

[Eric]

Yeah,

I just walk around pretending I'm holding a PADD from ST:TNG and I don't have to deal with that delightfully quaint paper.

Yeah, well, when the zombie apocalypse comes and you run out of power, we'll see who has the last laugh!

[TinkTanker]

Yeah,

I just walk around pretending I'm holding a PADD from ST:TNG and I don't have to deal with that delightfully quaint paper.

Yeah, well, when the zombie apocalypse comes and you run out of power, we'll see who has the last laugh!

Hey, I've read The Zombie Survival Guide (on my iPad). 

[Eric]

Amazon introduces the Kindle Cloud Reader, which apparently works for your iPad: https://read.amazon.com/

My Nook Simple Touch is growing on me.  There are definitely books I'd rather have only electronically (I doubt I'll ever re-read some).  OTOH, I still have concerns about the eventual apparent death of the paper book.  That idea concerns me.  Who needs to burn books when it can be done with the touch of a button (e.g. Amazon's deletion of 1984), or if stories are subtly changed to reflect an ideology or made-up history?

Still, it's terribly convenient.  My only real complaint is that the sales pictures of the Nook's screen always show black text and white background, whereas this is simply not true --at least not in normal light.  Darn you advertising! You got me again!

[Eric]

I ordered a microSD card to attempt to root my Nook.  Maybe rooting will give it a few features I'm missing (zoom, for one).  The night-time reading mode looks interesting, where it's white text on black background.  Not to mention the ability to add Kobo and Amazon apps (my GoT copy came from Kobo/Borders and was side-loaded).   

I also come hat-in-hand. Last week I went to the eye-doc with the 20/10 vision I've always had and came back with a bruised ego and some modest reading glasses.   

[Eric]

Rooting was interesting. I like being able to easily check my email or look something up on the Internet, or even to read the occasional editorial. The black/white flashing is a bit disconcerting, but I'm getting used to it.  I'm now using Adiko to read ebooks, as it has the nighttime reading function, a more extensive dictionary and even a way to look up subjects via Wikipedia. 

In Android/Nook news, perhaps I jumped the gun by a couple of months. Eep:

The next Kindle will be an LCD color tablet, priced at around $250 and competes with the Nook Color, but with a free Prime membership.  They are also working on a dual-mode tablet would run in eInk or color modes.

The Nook Color 2, possibly out this month, may be a color eInk device.  Not much more seems to be known.

I knew I should have waited.   Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

[AdmiralDigby]

I'm waiting for a chip in my brain .

[TinkTanker]

Eric, what rooting method did you use? I ask because Ann volunteered me to root one of her coworker's Nook Color. Of course, Nook has upgraded their firmware and the method I used on Ann's no longer works. Or something.

[Eric]

I used Touchnooter v1.6.24, following these directions: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/nook-touch-root.html
(Main Touchnooter dev. thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14915570)

It looks like the same programmer offers Manualnooter for the Nook Color 1.2 & 1.3:  http://www.lockergnome.com/media/2011/07/17/root-nook-color/
(Main dev. thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027 )

[TinkTanker]

Thanks so much. I'd forgotten you have the Touch and not the Color. But I really appreciate the info.