Tag: nook nook nookity nook
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Excellent customer service with Amazon and B&N
I would now like to take the opportunity to give props for excellent customer service to both Amazon and Barnes and Noble! Y’all may recollect that a while back I had an issue with a Kindle ebook I bought being in all italics, and how even though I only asked about it several months after…
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Can any other Nook users with Macs repro this?
Standing down from silent running for this, because I gotta admit, I’m intrigued by this problem. This is how you tell I’m a QA engineer, people: I’m intrigued by the problem to solve, rather than pissed off that a product I’ve purchased is not behaving as it should. 😉 Here’s the backstory. The other day,…
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The Nook Report, Part 2
Now that I’ve had a few days to read on the Nook, here are my thoughts on the experience. First and foremost, I am sold on the virtue of a one-use reading device for a reason I hadn’t foreseen: if all the device does is show you the books, there’s nothing on it to distract…
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And now, the Nook report!
Nookish goodness arrived at my house today! Therefore, as promised, here’s my overall initial review post. First and foremost, y’all may have heard that the Nook comes with insanely complicated packaging. This is absolutely true. When you first get into it, there’s a little slip of paper that has–I kid you not–a seven-step procedure for…
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I was going to do this anyway
But the Amazon vs. Macmillan brouhaha over the weekend has pretty much bumped up the priority on this: I just dropped my first round of shiny royalties on a Nook. The actual device and a pretty cover to put it in pretty much comes to roughly the amount of royalties I got, and that’s quite…