NookColor - Is this the future of Ebooks for Gaming?

[shocklee]

PDFs take up too much space for eBook readers. The readers are designed for compressed text, text being the format for fiction. Games that have no illustrations could be canidates for this, but otherwise the eBook readers are not a good canidate.

 

[IronWolf]

PDFs take up too much space for eBook readers. The readers are designed for compressed text, text being the format for fiction. Games that have no illustrations could be canidates for this, but otherwise the eBook readers are not a good canidate.

This one can make use of microSD cards which greatly alleviates storage concerns that PDFs might bring with them.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

PDFs take up too much space for eBook readers. The readers are designed for compressed text, text being the format for fiction. Games that have no illustrations could be canidates for this, but otherwise the eBook readers are not a good canidate.

Why use pdf in the first place. It is all very well for print but there is no obvious reason that game materials cannot be published in electronic book formats. Just because it has never been done before is not really an excuse and as these kinds of devices then the game publishers have more to gain by catering to that market.

 

[Scribble]

I hope they do go for the nook because you can get an app to read your nook books on all the major formats so on the nook on the ipad your laptop an android pad etc...

Barns and nobel format supports sharing and works with libraries...

Also the nook is basically an android pad heavily modified to do the book reader thing first.

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[DaveMage]

On a Nook, no. On an iPad, absolutely.

Yeah, the larger iPad screen - if nothing else - makes the choice easy.

I'm waiting for iPad2 (to buy), then I'm going to be able to bring my entire Paizo library with me to gaming. I will no longer need dice (though I may still bring them anyway). How cool will that be????

 

[mach1.9pants]

I have pretty extensive ereading experience. I have had an iRex DR1000S for over 2 years, that has a 10" e-ink screen. And it is very easy on the eyes but the page turning is just too slow in any PDF with lots of graphics. Like many gaming ones. I also have used my Samsung Galaxy S phone and that has proved to me that reading on a good LCD display is not as bad as I though (unless outside). I was very keen on e-ink but I stare at a PC screen all day and have no probs. I read for hours on my Galaxy S on the plane with no pros. So I am replacing my iRex with an EXOPC. That is a 11.6" Win 7 tablet with a custom touch UI. The reason I chose the EXOPC over an iPad (I have had a godly bit of use with my bosses iPad too) is that a full Win7 PC gives me so many more options than the closed and solo tasking iPad. I also already have well over 50GB of PDFs, comics and books. The EXO has 64GB + SDCard + USB slot, the lexar 32GB USB dive is tiny. The only big downer will be the 4 ish hour battery life, I will have to see how it goes.

 

[Asmor]

I have pretty extensive ereading experience. I have had an iRex DR1000S for over 2 years, that has a 10" e-ink screen. And it is very easy on the eyes but the page turning is just too slow in any PDF with lots of graphics. Like many gaming ones. I also have used my Samsung Galaxy S phone and that has proved to me that reading on a good LCD display is not as bad as I though (unless outside). I was very keen on e-ink but I stare at a PC screen all day and have no probs. I read for hours on my Galaxy S on the plane with no pros. So I am replacing my iRex with an EXOPC. That is a 11.6" Win 7 tablet with a custom touch UI. The reason I chose the EXOPC over an iPad (I have had a godly bit of use with my bosses iPad too) is that a full Win7 PC gives me so many more options than the closed and solo tasking iPad. I also already have well over 50GB of PDFs, comics and books. The EXO has 64GB + SDCard + USB slot, the lexar 32GB USB dive is tiny. The only big downer will be the 4 ish hour battery life, I will have to see how it goes.

Hadn't heard of the Exo, thanks for the heads up. That thing does look pretty sexy... I'd be worried weather 2 GB of ram would be enough for a pleasant experience in Windows 7, though.

 

[VictorC]

The nook color.

The e-book reader that wanted to be a tablet... and failed at both.

turn off the wi-fi and only read, you'll maybe get eight hours.

Do anything else and you'll be lucky to get three or, maybe, five.

Half the cost of the iPad, maybe an eighth of the usefulness.