Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Nook vs Kindle

In today's world of technology physical books are slowly being replaced with e books and audio books in some cases. If you have been leaning towards getting a e reader you may be torn between Barnes and Nobel's "Nook" e reader and Amazon's "Kindle" reader. Which is the right one for you? It all depends on what you want to get out of the device. I personally have the Barnes and Noble "Nook HD tablet" and I do enjoy it. I only use it for books and gaming every now and than. 

I was looking at the different devices and I actually think I might switch to the newest kindle, it's the kindle paper white and it's really light and really thin. Like I said there are advantages to each device. With the nook one of the key things is that with the nook you can expand your storage to up to 32 GB while with the Amazon Kindle I don't believe that you can. Amazon's kindle allows you to use your amazon login to do more of your purchasing of books. Barnes and Noble makes a excellent reader device, I have had every model of the Nook device and I really enjoy it. 

I have been a little hesitant to try the kindle but what is the harm in trying something new? Only thing that I do not like is that I will have to re buy all of my books that I have threw Barnes and Noble. So I may just stick with Barnes and Noble. If you are looking to invest in a e reader or a tablet I would defiantly do your research before committing to a tablet or e reader. Make sure though that you do find one that you can say at the end of the day "Hey I do like this".  

Friday, October 18, 2013

Boring books

Ok, so I just came across a book that reviews said that it was awesome and that it was a recommended great read.  However I went to the library to the book that was recommended, the title of the book was "The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer. I really did want to enjoy this book, but for some reason I could not get into it because of the character development. I really did not care for it. It seem to drag on without a good sense of direction.

Sad to say that I did not finish this book I did really want to like it, I had high hopes for this book because it was given such great reviews. That just goes to show that reviews are sometimes a liar, and people after all do have very different taste in books. I do hope that my next read will be a lot better currently I am in the market for a better read. If anyone has any suggestions let me know!