Upgrading!

[ladysprite]

So in spite of having held out and promising myself I'd never do it, I finally broke down a couple of years ago and bought myself an e-reader. I wound up with a Nook Simple Touch, and I have been madly in love with it ever since.

Except now it's starting to get a bit old. (Not that old; the original one glitched a little more than a year ago and had to be replaced.) It's running out of battery at random intervals, completely unrelated to how recently it's been charged, and sometimes it's just not responding. Nothing too bad, but it's starting to become a pattern. And I'm left with the thought of what to do.

I love the Simple Touch. What I want, most of all, is a way to read books, and that's all it does, and it does it well. And it's a lot easier for me to read on e-paper than it is on a standard monitor. And it's small enough to fit easily in my purse, and it doesn't weigh a ton.

Except... it doesn't do color. Or pictures. And I'd dearly love the ability to read graphic novels. I just don't know if I want that enough to give up my (slightly) easier reading.

And if I *do* decide to upgrade.... I'm not quite sure what to go with. umbran has a Nook Tablet, and he loves it, but if I am going to upgrade and get a tablet, is the Nook tablet worth it, or should I just bite the bullet and get an actual tablet?

I know bless-all about tech devices; I just know that I like reading, and maybe might want to upgrade my reader. Or maybe not. But I also know that my friends are smart and experienced and more knowledgeable in this field than I am.

So... opinions? What's your favorite e-reader, if you have one? What do you think would suit me best?

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

My opinion is that ebooks are good at being books (and having really good sharpness and contrast and enormous battery life), and tablets are good at being light-weight sorta-computers (and being flexible and multi-tasking and glitzy).

I'm not sure what Nook Tablet is supposed to be good at.

I swear by my ancient, slow, barely sufficiently memoried, non-wireless, non-touchscreen, non-backlit Sony, because it's really good for reading text on, and I don't care about graphic novels, I want easily portable books, and I want to go on a trip without bringing one more charger.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

The Nook tablet is good... at being second place in a number of things, which actually works out pretty well.

I wanted something I could read on, something I could do occasional web-browsing and e-mail checking on, play a game every now and then, maybe read a comic book, as well as be a non-issue on size, and not make me wince thinking about the cost for what is basically an entertainment device. It does *all* of those things pretty well, if not best-in-class at any one of them, which makes it attractive for someone like me.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense.

I use my ipod touch (whose primary purpose is to carry about an arbitrarily sized music library) for incidental gaming and browsing as well as emergency reading, and it's pocket-sized and thus more likely to be on my person at all times. The e-reader for me is a direct substitute of a stack of paperbacks, and I don't really want it to do anything other than be easily read.