The Nook was not a real product when I bought my Kindle. Reviews sound like I still made a good choice. Barnes & Noble is big, but they have too many physical offices to stay competitive. They're just jumping on a bandwagon, and I don't like to buy a first generation product.
The iPad has promise, but..... it wasn't announced until after I took delivery of my Kindle. It didn't ship the first unit until a month later. It requires iTunes to transfer data. The Kindle I can attach to any computer with no special software (iTunes) or configuration issues. I would not be able to attach the iPad to the school computers, basically. Many of the "software" problems I saw on first use of the iPad have been fixed. I'm expecting major changes to the way the iPad works this fall, and I bet it comes with new hardware. Maybe I'll buy one then, but even if they get it perfect, I still may not buy one.
The Sony - it sounds good, the reviews were pretty good. But.... I wanted the large screen of the Kindle DX.
I needed something RIGHT THEN that did ebooks, pdf documents. The word processing and web surfing of the iPad would be nice, but, oh well.
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