{"id":2681,"date":"2009-10-23T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2009-10-23T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T04:00:28","slug":"barnes-noble-ereader-device-appears-might-blow-the-kindle-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/10\/23\/barnes-noble-ereader-device-appears-might-blow-the-kindle-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &#038; Noble eReader Device Might Blow the Kindle Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2682\" title=\"B&amp;Nereader\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BNereader-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;Nereader\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BNereader-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/BNereader.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle<\/em> could be headed for the woodpile.\u00a0 The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/?cds2Pid=30919\">Barnes &amp; Nobel ereader device<\/a> is coming at the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>The new device is called the <em>nook.<\/em> Like book nook, I guess.\u00a0 But this thing has a color touch screen virtual keypad like an <em>iPhone<\/em> and it displays book pages on an eye-friendly E ink display.\u00a0 It appears to be sleek and well-designed.\u00a0 It will also allow ebook owners to lend their ebooks to other people who own Nook devices for up to 14 days.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing it has going for it is support for formats like ePub, eReader, PDF, MP3, JPG, PNG and BMP files.\u00a0 One article compared this device to Amazon&#8217;s by saying it was like the internet compared to Amazon&#8217;s AOL.\u00a0 It has free 3G <em>and<\/em> Wi-Fi connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>After the ongoing grotesque behavior by Amazon and its apparent lack of concern for owners&#8217; rights it won&#8217;t take much for Barnes &amp; Noble to turn Amazon&#8217;s ugly duckling of a closed-system ereader into a bad joke.<\/p>\n<p>I never took the plunge to buy a Kindle from Amazon because I don&#8217;t trust their intentions.\u00a0 I have no hesitation to run out and buy the Barnes &amp; Noble device as soon as it comes out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle could be headed for the woodpile.\u00a0 The new Barnes &amp; Nobel ereader device is coming at the end of November. The new device is called the nook. Like book nook, I guess.\u00a0 But this thing has a color touch screen virtual keypad like an iPhone and it displays book pages on an eye-friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[716,717,222,714,715],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-barnes-noble","tag-e-ink","tag-ebook","tag-ereader","tag-nook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}