This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your iPad/iPhone (purchase), Kindle (purchase), Nook (purchase) or other devices. It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. To learn how to load books to your Kindle using the links below, please watch this video. This other video explains how to upload epub files to a Nook.
It's hard not to make a series of reductive comparisons between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. After all, it's the conflict between Barnes & Noble and Amazon that frames these two 7-inch tablet / e-reader hybrids. This one is $50 more expensive, but is technically more impressive: you get more expandability, it's faster and the screen is better for images and video. Statistically, at least three out of every ten e-book readers purchased were Nooks, so plenty of you out there use 'em. What we want to know, is what are they like to use on a daily basis? What little gripes did we not pick up during our week-long review and, if William Lynch was reading what you had to say, what would you change?
Barnes & Noble will release a new, and probably cheaper, version of its Nook Tablet on Feb. 22 to help it compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire, according to a leak obtained by The Verge.
The question that ultimately comes up after accepting that these are all e-readers that won’t perform or look exactly like an iPad (or miscellaneous tablet of your choosing) is: So… which one is better? I’m going to save you time, right now! There is no clear winner. Each can be useful to a person — it depends on whether you’re looking to save money or have a clean and easy book reading experience or want to read your books and play games/videos/browse the internet too.
After September's Kindle Fire announcement from Amazon, it was only a matter of time before rival bookseller Barnes & Noble retaliated with a new e-book-friendly tablet. Bearing a striking resemblance to its previous effort (the Nook Color--which remains on the market at $199), the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet outguns the Kindle Fire in a few key specs.
