Gizmodo Loves Nook for 8 Reasons

Here are the reason from Gizmodo. I really like the points made here, and can’t wait to share those with you:

1. cost-effective: $259 – same price as the kindle 2, but more features like Wi-Fi, native PDF support, an SD slot and the second screen.
2. Lending and Sharing: nook integrates a 2-week lending period with friends. And supports: Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry. kindle  doesn’t support PC and Mac at all. And the nook syncs both your place in the book and any highlights or annotations you’ve made, which could be great for students.
3. Free in-store reading.  Take your nook to any Barnes & Noble’s  store and read one ebook, for free, each time—”the same way you might wander into the store, pick up a book and read it for an hour or two. Barnes & Noble is really thinking about how people actually read, which is a great sign: This kind of feature makes the kindle feel like it’s forcing you to change your reading habits rather than adapting to them.”
4. Head-turning looks: “The kindle 1 was, um, distinctive, and the kindle 2 is inoffensive and sleek enough, but the nook has legitimate style”.
5. It runs Android. “There are two things to be excited about when it comes to Android. First is the legit apps, which B&N seems open to….. Secondly, there’s the more, well, illicit possibilities: The nook both runs Android (which we already know is easily and enthusiastically modified) and has a microUSB jack, which should make for easy hacking. Imagine user-created skins, apps, games (in case reading gets boring)—the possibilities are just about endless. The nook already supports PDF natively (yes!) but we could definitely see it hacked to embrace other formats like DOC.”
6. The second screen. “It just makes so much sense: Browsing for books on e-ink is an exercise in frustration, and touchscreen e-ink is even worse. With its capacitive touchscreen, the nook offers a keyboard and Cover-Flow-esque browsing without the awkwardness and lethargy of e-ink, but it also opens the door for multitasking. You’ll be able to read a book and control your music at the same time, and because the music browser will be on the LCD screen, it won’t look like e-inked crap. It should also support photo browsing and the ability to set your own wallpaper.”
7. Battery life. “The nook’s 10-day battery life may not be quite as long as the kindle 2′s 14 days, but 10 days is still insane……… Plus, the nook’s battery is replaceable, always a welcome decision (you could have a spare battery, and when yours does eventually die, it’s easy to replace)”.
8. Both 3G and Wi-Fi. “I’m not exactly sure about the benefits of Wi-Fi right now (besides international travel, where AT&T may not work), but given the possibilities of Android, it’s essential that the nook includes it. In the future, we may want to download files bigger than ebooks—apps, games, videos, whatever—and Wi-Fi will be vital once the potential of the nook is unlocked. Plus, there could well be Wi-Fi-only features of the kind AT&T wouldn’t support: Streaming content, web browsing, VoIP, whatever. Wi-Fi is a killer feature not for what it does right now, but for what it could allow the nook could do in the future.”

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