I have had my Kindle touch 3G pdf reader just two weeks ago. My friend was amazed to see such a reader in my hand and, went to market to have one. But, finally he bought a Nook color Pdf reader. He brought it to me. It was beautiful too. We began to Compare Kindle and Nook then. Which one has got advanced features. The outcome is like below:
Display:
After Compare Kindle and Nook we found that both have display of size 6 inch. But, they have got a little difference in the display type. Kindle got an E ink Pearl and, nook possesses an E link vizplex technology. E ink Pearl is more updated than, E link vizplex, so, Kindle would get higher marks than Nook. But, both of the readers have same screen resolution and it’s 600 X 800 pixels.
Size and weight:
We then Compare Kindle and Nook according to their size and weight. Kindle is 6.5″ x 4.5″ x 0.3″ in dimension while Nook is 7.7″ x 4.9″ x 0.5″. So, Kindle is smaller than Nook. Kindle possesses 6 oz of weight while Nook possesses 11.6 oz of weight. So, from dimension and size Kindle is smaller than, Nook. Kindle is approximately 4 times shorter and, 2 times lighter than the Nook pdf reader.
Storage Capacity:
We found that, kindle can store 1,400 books while Nook can store 1,500 books after Compare Kindle and Nook. So, Nook can store more books than Kindle. Not only that, the memory of Kindle is non expandable. But, you can expand Nooks memory up to 16 GB. So, according to storage capacity Nook is advanced than the Kindle.
Battery quality:
Kindle has got a longer lasting battery. If you keep your wi-fi off than the battery can run up to one month in a single charging. But, Nook will gain poor marks in this portion of Compare Kindle and Nook. If you keep wi-fi off then the battery of Nook can go only 10 days. So, we can say that Nooks battery is pore in quality than kindle.
Supported formats:
Kindle supports pdf, azw and, mobi format of EBooks, but, Nook supports pdf, epub and, pdb format of EBooks. Portrait or, landscape view is supported by Kindle but, not by Nook. Both of the pdf readers support MP3 format and, web browsers. So, we can see that Nook and, Kindle both support a variety of formats.
Internet facility:
Kindle provides wi-fi to connect with a wi-fi network only but, Nook provides 3G technology in addition to the wi-fi. So, in this part of Compare Kindle and Nook we can give the crown to Nook.
But, kindle has got a better Amazon review than the Nook. Kindles score is 4.7 but, Nooks score is 3.6 out of 5.
Here we have used Kindle 4 and Nook 1 to compare. There are so many Kindle and Nook sets beside this two. So, the comparison is not complete here. You may find them all if you have interest.