{"id":819,"date":"2011-11-19T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookenvy.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-11-30T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:38:52","slug":"let-the-ereader-come-tablet-wars-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/let-the-ereader-come-tablet-wars-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the eReader-come-tablet wars begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This week was eventful in the eReader world – the Kindle Fire shipped early and the new Nook Tablet became available. And from all I am reading, it seems that finally there is some real competition between these two. Not until now have I been willing to concede that the Nook and the Kindle were able to compete against one another – but with their respective forays into the tablet arena, that just might change.<\/p>\n

The Kindle Fire<\/h2>\n

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The reviews I have been seeing for the Kindle Fire have been mostly disparaging – Forbes<\/a>, twice<\/a>; Huffingtonpost<\/a> and TechCrunch<\/a> – to name a few.<\/p>\n

And not a few of them have been flogging that dead horse of a topic – that the Kindle Fire is an alternative to the other all-purpose tablets on the market. I have been ill myself, so not as prolific as I’d like to have been, but it hasn’t stopped me from being incensed at how widely misunderstood the Kindle Fire is.<\/p>\n

I neither own one, nor do I intend to own one (I am an e-Ink kind of girl) – but from the day of the announcement it was clear to me that the focus of the Kindle Fire was never “all-purpose”. It’s about delivering Amazon.com content nothing more, nothing less. And I don’t think I can say it any more without sounding like a stuck record. So I am going to ask you – all of you who took the plunge and now are almost a week into your shiny, new Kindle Fire devices.<\/p>\n

The New Nook Tablet<\/h2>\n

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If you ask me, Barnes and Noble has been perfecting their “tablet” for a while now with the Nook Color. So that it’s now known as the Nook Tablet is no huge leap. Endgadget<\/a> has a fairly comprehensive comparison article on both of these tablets. If you haven’t yet decided which one to get yet, this will be a good read – albeit somewhat technical.<\/p>\n

If you already have decided and you have it in hand, let us know what your thoughts are in the comments below. I am dying to hear what all of you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week was eventful in the eReader world – the Kindle Fire shipped early and the new Nook Tablet became available. And from all I am reading, it seems that finally there is some real competition between these two. Not until now have I been willing to concede that the Nook and the Kindle were able to compete against one another – but with their respective forays into the tablet arena, that just might change. The Kindle Fire The reviews I have been seeing for the Kindle Fire have been mostly disparaging – Forbes, twice; Huffingtonpost and TechCrunch – to name a few. And not a few of them have been flogging that dead horse of a topic – that the Kindle Fire is an alternative to the other all-purpose tablets on the market. I have been ill myself, so not as prolific as I’d like to have been, but it hasn’t stopped me from being incensed at how widely misunderstood the Kindle Fire is. I neither own one, nor do I intend to own one (I am an e-Ink kind of girl) – but from the day of the announcement it was clear to me that the focus of the Kindle Fire was never “all-purpose”. It’s about delivering Amazon.com content nothing more, nothing less. And I don’t think I can say it any more without sounding like a stuck record. So I am going to ask you – all of you who took the plunge and now are almost a week into your shiny, new Kindle Fire devices. The New Nook Tablet If you ask me, Barnes and Noble has been perfecting their “tablet” for a while now with the Nook Color. So that it’s now known as the Nook Tablet is no huge leap. Endgadget has a fairly comprehensive comparison article on both of these tablets. If you haven’t yet decided which one to get yet, this will be a good read – albeit somewhat technical. If you already have decided and you have it in hand, let us know what your thoughts are in the comments below. I am dying to hear what all of you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[18,17,116,24,115],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-com","tag-ereaders-2","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-fire"],"views":7568,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}