The New Nook Tablet

I love my Nook Color and have ordered the Android SD card for $50. I don't like the cost of the B&N apps but with the android card, I won't have to worry about that. Love not being locked into Amazon or Apple for things. That's the reason I picked up the 1st generation Nook.

My friends and coworkers who are blind point out that the Nook, any and all of them, are just as inaccessible to them as Amazon's Kindle. Both companies are missing out on sales to a whole segment of the population by not building in software that would make both machines ADA-compliant. I would think the first "reading machine" company to fix this in the design stage would gather up all the sales from the part of the market that cannot read standard print.

Since the iPhone and other i-products with their swipe and touch controls are already accessible, I don't see the problem in making this happen. Well, other than dunderheadedness. Bob, how do we get Nook to be accessible to screen access readers?

I've had a Nook Color since June and absolutely adore it. Would like to get a Nook Tablet for faster processing, but can't afford it right now.

"Nook e-reader?" You have to be careful how you say that, lol.

Having owned the Nook 1st ed. and now the Nook Color
I'm getting the tablet. Remember you can get instant personal help at any B & N store and the Nook has has more ram and memory. If your out of wifi rang the kindle may not hold the whole movie (on your flight from LA to New York)

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I bought a Nook Color in July and absolutely love it. Wish I had known they were coming out with the Tablet so soon at the same price. I would have waited for it and skipped Nook Color.

Dollar for dollar for a reader, I would think that the Kindle Fire is a better deal. However, if you think about running "unfettered" Android, The Nook tablet is the far better deal. You actually don't have to root the Nook Color, nor the Nook Tablet (I am guessing). Surf a bit and you find the people who "root" the Nook via the mini SD card so it runs full Android from the card and leaves the Nook intact (and not voiding the warranty that rooting the device would do). And yes, I would run the Kindle app.

I read about 1 book a week (sometimes 2 per week) so, I've tried the Kindle App, Nook App, iBooks and when I decide to buy an e-book, I check all three, iBookstore, Kindle bookstore and Nook bookstore. Around 50% of the time, at least for books that I read, Amazon is about a $1 cheaper than iBook or Nook. I have found Nook to be the most expensive; sometimes iBookstore and Kindle store are cheaper. So, Kindle and iBook are my preferred readers.

Finally, if you are in the market for a reader, and only occasionally want to run a browser or play some games, I think the Kindle Fire is for you. If you are serious about Android in addition to the reader function, then Nook Color or Nook Tablet is for you. If you want full blown Android, get a tablet that has Honeycomb. If you want iOS, get an iPod Touch or an iPad.

I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the first apps I downloaded were the Nook and Kindle apps. But I will comment on that in the Galaxy Tab article.

I'm not in a hurry -- I'm waiting to see what the actual user experience is like for both devices over a few months!

Pity these devices are only for use within North America. There is a great opportunity lost here! Des M

To the comment about lack of ADA compliance, my Vizio Tablet (vtab1008, $190 at Costco, BJ's) has an "accessibility" component, and when I clicked on it, it offered to download a free text-to-speech converter. I don't know how good it is, so maybe I'll give it a spin.
As to the Color Nook, my wife has the current one, and I'm dying to root it and upgrade to Android 3.0, but she won't let me! Without it, it's functionality is severely limited.

Both the Nook and Kindle Fire are basically 7" tablets at really good prices. They both lack one essential feature that some models of Kindle e-ink readers have -- Whispernet. I have the original Kindle and the ability to download books wherever I am is essential to me.

The newer model Kindle e-ink readers also have text to speech synthesizers that allow books to be read out loud (if the publisher permits it). While the synthesized voice is robotic sounding,it's considerably cheaper than audio book versions which the Kindle also plays.

I bought my wife an Acer Acronia 500 tablet and downloaded the Kindle app. Reading on a 10" tablet works quite well but it obviously is not as portable as dedicated readers or 7" tablets.

@ Stan Koper
Actually, "rooting" the Nook Color changes nothing internal to the Nook. The Nook first looks to the MicroSD slot to boot from. If a bootable image is there, it is used to boot from.
You can download a Honeycomb image to an SD micro, put it into the Nook SD slot, and next boot-up you are running Honeycomb. No damage to the wifes ecosys whatsoever. I do it here on a daily basis. Works great.

I bought one Nov 23 and returned it Nov 26 after spending a day and a half trying to get it to connect to my router (a 2WIRE651) so that I could 'register' it and eventually root it. You can't do ANYTHING until you go thru B&N's forced registration process.

The problem seems to be that the NookColor has trouble connecting to a router is not wide open ie., unsecured. I have my wireless security set at WPA-PSK (TKIP) and I'm not broadcasting my SSID. I tried WPA-PSK2 (AES) with the same lack of success. Research indicated that if I broadcast my SSID or ran unsecured I might have been able to connect but that was not an option because of previous problems I had with squatters and hackers. Changing the mode to 54mps and entering the Nook's MAC address in the router's MAC address table made no difference either.

This appears to be a fairly common but not universal problem. You can check your router against a list of known good routers at http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Connectivity/List-of-working-routers-and-setup/td-p/776578. Don't let me dissuade you, just be aware. YMMV

Bought the NOOK Color last June; rooted it with N2A SD card -- love it. Got the NOOK Tablet for Christmas. Just purchased the N2A card for the Tablet -- runs smoothly; can read books from any ereader app on either Color or Tablet; and can get everything I need from the Android Market. Wouldn't go near a Kindle; can't see spending $$ on Apple.
I read many books -- and so do my students from either of my NOOKs! (If it gets middle schoolers to read, I'm all over it!)

I have had my nook tablet for 1 week and now it won't turn on any suggestions please help

I bought a Nook first. It was nice, but I had to hold it to my ear to hear music. I returned it and bought a Kindle Fire HD. It doesn't have a card slot, but there are other ways to load files.

Plus for Nook- MicroSD card slot
Plus for Kindle Fire- Excellent stereo sound