Nook or kindle for kids plus#
Nook or kindle for kids free#

Nook or kindle for kids free#

This includes access to over 500,000 free e-books. According to Barnes & Noble, more than one million newspaper, magazine and e-book titles can be purchased online at BN.com for the nook. Worse, the touch screen is balky and nonresponsive.Īvailable Content for the nook and the KindleĪccording to Amazon, the Kindle has access to more than 360,000 e-books as well as newspapers, magazines and blogs that can be wirelessly downloaded from. At other times, the color strip feels completely, awkwardly disconnected from what it’s supposed to control on the big screen above. Sometimes it makes sense when you’re viewing inch-tall book covers, for example, you can tap to open one. (In effect, it replaces the Kindle’s clicky thumb keyboard.) This screen is exclusively for navigation and controls. That “color touch screen,” for example, is actually just a horizontal strip beneath the regular Kindle-style gray screen.

Nook or kindle for kids plus#

While the color touch screen appears to be a solid plus for the nook, David Pogue writes that When not in use, the nook's touch screen goes dark. Arrow keys on either side of the device control page-turning. The touch screen can be turned into a keyboard for making annotations and taking notes, or a controller for the MP3 player. The Nook also has a 3.5-inch color touch screen that is used for highlighting text, adding bookmarks and navigating the internal library. It takes nearly three seconds to turn a page - three times longer than the Kindle - which is really disruptive if you’re in midsentence. David Pogue at the New York Times writes thatĮven though it’s exactly the same E Ink technology that the Kindle and Sony Readers use, the Nook’s screen is achingly slower than the Kindle’s. However, the display of the nook is less responsive than the Kindle's. USB 2.0 port (micro-B connector), 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack, Micro-SD SlotĪccelerometer (changes page orientation from portrait to landscape when the device is rotated)Īudible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), MP3īoth Kindle 2 and nook have a 6-inch display with E-Ink technology, 16-level grayscale contrast and adjustable text size. USB 2.0 port (micro-B connector), SD card (original model only), 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack, built-in speaker Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.Ģ weeks (wireless off) 1 week (wireless on) $99-$249 (Nook Simple Touch $99,Nook Simple Touch with GLowlight $139, Nook Color $199, Nook Tablet 8GB $199, Nook Tablet 16GB $249)Īmazon Whispernet using EVDO/CDMA AnyDATA wireless modem (Sprint network)Ĩ.0 × 5.3 × 0.36 in (203 × 135 × 9.14 mm)Ħ00 x 800 pixel, 6 inch E Ink display and a 3.5 inch 480 x 144 pixel color control display