Why I bought the Kindle and took back the Nook

I was preparing for a week long vacation recently and I wanted to do a lot of reading. I wanted to pack light so I began to look into e-book readers. Actually, that’s not what happened at all. I generally keep up on technology so I knew it was either going to be a kindle or a nook and I knew I wanted the kindle but I found out that the kindle was sold out so I went to Walmart bought the Nook. I confess, I occasionally buy things from Walmart specifically because I know they will let me take it back if I don’t like it.

Here is my very short list of reasons why the kindle is better:

1. Responsive – The nook touchscreen was annoying. The delay should should have constituted a complete redesign. The kindle is fast and smooth. Like butter on a bald monkey.
2. Battery Life – The nook boasted 10 days. The nook didn’t come close to ten days. I killed the battery within 24 hours of use just because of that annoying touch screen. Also the wifi and other settings are tedious to adjust. The kindle boasted a month. My battery has always been above 80% full, even with heavy use. On the kindle, wifi takes a split second to turn on or off.
3. The Contrast
4. Lighter Weight
5. Page Refreshes Faster

Really the only things that mattered to me were won by the kindle. The only thing I like about the nook was:

1. 1) Native support for .epubs. However, a simple tool (calibre) can convert to the .mobi format for kindle.

So if you like reading without straining your eyes from back lit devices, the kindle seems to dominate.

I have heard a rumor about Transflective LCD’s. If they come out soon I might be kicking myself.

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