In truth, my favorite for an eReader is the Original Nook, with e-Ink running native. Admittedly, it can be slow, and the general UI sucks, but I like the physical heft and balance of it, and the physical buttons are where they need to be, not where they can be accidentally triggered. The newer e-Ink Nook I haven't had a chance to put mileage on, but the shorter shape of it makes me think it won't balance as well in my hand.
I don't actually care that much about color for general reading, and I'd rather read e-Ink than LCDs but the more I play with the color Nook, the more I like it as a mini-tablet. However, other than "proof of concept", I haven't tried to run it full-time rooted. There are a couple of things I'd look at to make a rooted Color Nook do eReader. There are at least 2 native apps (FBReader and Calibre), and if you can get Firefox running, a Firefox ePub plugin. To read B&N purchased (DRM) books, a small amount of Python code can handle the decryption. Presumably, at least one of Linux's PDF viewers could handle that format, and if it isn't too much strain, OpenOffice could handle the Microsoft and OO formats. Flash I have no use for. When I read a document, I don't want the document to read me, nor do I want dancing fairies and singing elves. Tim On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 05:28 -0500, Howard Roberts wrote: > On 11/1/2011 9:17 PM, Howard Roberts wrote: > > v 1.3 was pushed out via wi-fi to the stock NC's. I didn't know it > > until yesterday, but apparently when that update went out, the book > > D/L and app store D/L functionality just stopped working correctly. I > > had to restore to factory defaults and lost all the nifty Droid apps > > that I had been running. I'm investigating now if I re-root if there > > is some remedy to prevent this from happening in the future-- will > > follow-up with everyone if I find out more. > Wow! The news for now is not encouraging. The one positive I've taken > away is that it does seem true that it is nearly impossible to brick the > Nook Color. Presently however, I have to say forget *everything* you've > ever heard about it being possible, much less easy, to root the Nook > Color. After spending the day yesterday with my NC stuck in various boot > loops, while scouring through assorted contradictory forums offering up > disparate images and updates, the bottom line is that since the Barnes & > Noble 1.3 update, you cannot root the NC to produce a basic Droid tablet > *and* still leave the built-in eReader functionality intact. The trouble > seems to be with an incompatible Flash/Adobe Air update that Google > Marketplace attempts to install when you root. I'm sure this will be > resolved in time, but, for now at least, any efforts to root the dang > thing are a complete waste of your time, which is disappointing. > > For a while, I've been recommending to folks that they consider paying a > bit extra for the NC because it is a cool way to have an eReader with > tablet functionality. No more. With all the price cuts on other readers, > I'd say buy the cheapest deal you can find, then buy a separate tablet > if you want one. > > Regards, > Howard > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
