I'm thinking about buying a nook with Barnes and noble, any advice? Is there better things out there?

Can I download college textbooks onto it, would it be cheaper if I can?I'm thinking about buying a nook with Barnes and noble, any advice? Is there better things out there?
I suggest you to choose the Amazon Kindle. Books on the Kindle are cheaper, and Amazon is more mature on developing ebook readers. I've mentioned about textbooks on the Kindle in another answer here:





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?鈥?/a>





And here is a review about the Kindle written by a student:





http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i鈥?/a>





Hope this helps.I'm thinking about buying a nook with Barnes and noble, any advice? Is there better things out there?
I'm a student too. However, I own the Kindle 2. I can get some textbooks on it, they are cheaper and that saved me some heavy weights.





If you ask me to choose again now, I'll still go for the Kindle instead of the Nook, because I think the web browsing function is rather important (the Nook does not have a web browser). The free internet (and now it is free international internet) plus the web browser allow me to look for information whenever I'm in need. It is really a cool feature that cannot be missed. And right now it is free for both the U.S. and many other countries, it is just incredible when you bring it to trip.





I like to use the text-to-speech function on the Kindle too, meaning that I can ';read'; with my hands and eyes free...





And I remember I read this review when I decided to get my Kindle:





http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i鈥?/a>





Hope it helps :)
From the official page of B%26amp;N, here is how the Nook compares with the Kindle:





http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compa鈥?/a>





Since Barnes and Noble page is only mentioning the advantage of the Nook over the Kindle, let me try to tell more about the benefit of the Kindle 2 over the Nook:





- There is no internet browser for the Nook. So even with Wi-Fi, you can only use it to purchase book. You cannot do searching in Google, Wikipedia, check email, etc., like what you can do with the Kindle.





- The Amazon Kindle has international free 3G wireless which covers over 100 countries. So even if you're in places like the UK or Australia, you can access the internet with the Kindle free of charge. The Nook has wireless only within the U.S., and is limited for use of buying books only





- The Kindle is available outside the U.S. (it ships to 176 countries), while the Nook only ship within the U.S. at this moment.





- The Kindle has text-to-speech function, so it can treat an ebook like audio book. This function is not present on the Nook.





- Amazon is already doing some change after the Nook is announced (still more than one month for it to be available). They dropped the price of their International Kindle even further. And they are going to release a PC software which can read their Kindle books.





Finally, one thing to be aware is that, at first glance you may think the Nook can read ebooks with color touch screen. But indeed the color touch screen is only a small screen beneath the greyscale eink screen, and seems it is only used to browse the cover of ebooks.





In my opinion, it is a tie between the Kindle and the Barnes and Noble. But since you travel every summer, you should go for the Kindle for sure for the free internet access outside the United States. Moreover, I trust the Kindle will come up with some strategies very soon, like improving their lending book function. The Kindle is the biggest player in the ereader market right now, and I believe it will put enormous effort to hold its position.





And sorry that I don't know much about textbook for the Nook. But I know there are some textbooks in ebook format for the Amazon Kindle.





I recommend this article as well, it is the best review on ebook readers I've ever read, from a person who has tried a number of ebook readers:





http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i鈥?/a>





Hope this information helps.