Crowdsourced Shopping

[ase]

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is available in electronic format, and I want something to read on the train, so I'm looking at ereaders. Are there overwhelming reasons to go with a Kindle Touch over a Nook Simple Touch? Available free / cheap books, breadth / depth of compatible file formats, convenience of downloading internet content, marginal non-reading bonus features? I'm leaning toward the Nook. I'm also eying the Sony ereader in reflexive anti-crowd attitude, but I'm not buying without trying.

Comments

[sraun]

I probably would have bought a Nook, except for the fact that I wanted an ereader right now!, and the recently released Kindle had a clearly superior display. If I were making the same purchase today, the Nook Simple Touch would be a strong contender.

If you have access to see and touch them both, do that before you make a decision.

[ase]

I tried and liked the Nook a bit more too. However, I'm still on the fence. The thought of paying $80 to $100 on annoying e-ink flashy page-changes isn't making me happy.