Kindle / Nook Question

[cookderosa]

You can use Nook on your computer for free and see if you like it. That's what I have- it's the exact same thing as the hand-held except it's on my laptop! It took about 10 minutes to set up Just go into the B&N page and you'll see the link. You'll know in a day if you like it, plus you can see how the words look, etc.

You don't run out of space because your library is held by B&N, not your computer/device. (like iTunes)

The books I have are only free ones. I know they have a promotional book that's free- and I'll grab it if I see it, but my library currently has 35 nursing/medical texts courtesy of Kaplan. They ran a free promo code, and you could download anything they printed for a week, so I did almost their whole library.

My friend has the Kindle, she is my only source on how it works. She gets a free book every week I think as part of a promo, and she likes it too. I don't think kindle can be put on your laptop though...not sure.

Lastly, I have not yet done it, but I intend on putting my children's homeschool reading list on the Nook via each of their laptops. We use a curriculum that has almost 1200 books, and 99% are old copyright-free works, so there are sites like Project Gutenberg - free ebooks that contain the WHOLE list for free. In fact, Gutenberg has over 35,000 free ebooks that you can put on your kindle/nook.

So, I think you could get her paperless by using your home computer, nook free download and gutenberg! The hand-held device is optional.