Yeah, there are for the ebooks; all the tablets have their own DRM (digital rights management) format. Which means if you buy a Nook book you can't read it on your Kindle, and vice-versa (uhm, straight out of the box. You can side-load or root and get it on there).
Free ebooks you can put on either, and you can convert non-protected things with calibre (free program) to suit your format or send your documents to the device. (I take along a doc of the notes for whatever fic I'm working on.)
I didn't like the Nook when I was looking at them, but the newest model came out after I'd gotten the Fire, so I don't know about that. It was just a hand-feel thing, I couldn't see myself holding one for a while. The Fire has some real heft - all tablet capable ones are going to be heavier than the book only. The book only ones are REALLY light, as light as a phone or better.
Uhm, let's see... formats. Kindle Fire will take these types of files via USB transfer or other upload methods: * Documents: AZW, TXT,PDF, MOBI, PRC, DOC, DOCX * Music: MP3, Non-DRM AAC, MIDI, OGG, WAV * Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP * Video: MP4, VP8
If you've bought digital media from Amazon before, that should be available to you. Oh, and if you have Prime there are some perks, like some of the videos stream free.
One significant drawback to the Fire as tablet is that its net connection is Wi-Fi only. Now, I think the Nook is also? But I'm not sure. Basically that means that, unlike a phone or an iPad but like your average laptop, you need something else providing the internet signal. So some of the streaming features and cloud storage stuff aren't as useful as they might be, because you might not have internet. OTOH, it also means that you don't need to sign up with a wireless carrier and have monthly bills, like you would with an iPad.
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Date: 2012-05-29 01:10 am (UTC)Free ebooks you can put on either, and you can convert non-protected things with calibre (free program) to suit your format or send your documents to the device. (I take along a doc of the notes for whatever fic I'm working on.)
I didn't like the Nook when I was looking at them, but the newest model came out after I'd gotten the Fire, so I don't know about that. It was just a hand-feel thing, I couldn't see myself holding one for a while. The Fire has some real heft - all tablet capable ones are going to be heavier than the book only. The book only ones are REALLY light, as light as a phone or better.
Uhm, let's see... formats. Kindle Fire will take these types of files via USB transfer or other upload methods:
* Documents: AZW, TXT,PDF, MOBI, PRC, DOC, DOCX
* Music: MP3, Non-DRM AAC, MIDI, OGG, WAV
* Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
* Video: MP4, VP8
If you've bought digital media from Amazon before, that should be available to you. Oh, and if you have Prime there are some perks, like some of the videos stream free.
One significant drawback to the Fire as tablet is that its net connection is Wi-Fi only. Now, I think the Nook is also? But I'm not sure. Basically that means that, unlike a phone or an iPad but like your average laptop, you need something else providing the internet signal. So some of the streaming features and cloud storage stuff aren't as useful as they might be, because you might not have internet. OTOH, it also means that you don't need to sign up with a wireless carrier and have monthly bills, like you would with an iPad.