![]() For example, if you want to know how often a particular phrase appears, this tool will help get that done. You can also search the rest of the book for the same text. On the Kindle, when you highlight text with your mouse, you can choose to apply a yellow highlight to it, copy it, add a note, look up the text in Google, Wikipedia or a dictionary, and even report a content error. Only the Nook for Mac offers that ability, although some material can't be printed due to publisher restrictions.īoth the Nook and Kindle have an array of options when you highlight text. Surprisingly, the Nook for PC just doesn't feel as "finished" as the other two.Īs a note, you cannot print at all from Kindle or Nook for PC. The books are simply provided in a grid, and you toggle through each organization method at the top. The Nook for PC is more like the Kindle than its own Mac cousin. The Nook for Mac offers the same sorting functions as a Kindle, but it also splits up your content according to whether it's an ebook, etextbook, magazine, or newspaper. Additionally, you have the option to click each book to get more information, such as whether you can copy text from it or how much you can print from the book. While it's a subtle touch, these visual cues offer a more "book-like" experience. The Nook for Mac offers a grid and list view of your books as well, although the "grid" view has some visual nods to the "book shelf" metaphor. However, that's where the customization of your reading ends you can't change screen colors like you can with the Kindle. You can shrink the size of the text, though, and if you shrink the text small enough, you end up with three "pages" on screen at at time. The viewing screen is divided in half, as if the left side were one page and the ride side were another. On the Mac, the Nook displays its ebooks in a faux-book experience. All of these controls are found in the menu bar, although you can also reach most using on-screen shortcuts. You can also adjust the number of words that appear on each line of text, the size of the font, and the general brightness of your display. You can choose to make the reading screen black text on white background, white text on black background, or a brown on sepia color. It basically looks like a word processing document, although you can toggle the display to present two columns instead of one. The Kindle displays a single "page" at a time. Let's start with the most critical part of reading a book on your computer: how does it actually look? After all, if you're just reading a wall of text, then you might as well be reading a Pages document. ![]() However, the Nook is much different on Mac than it is on the PC. So, let's talk about which e-reading app is better for the computer should you use the Kindle or the Nook? Since we're talking about both Mac and PC applications here, you should know that the Kindle is identical across both operating systems. But most folks like to use a central service and program to get their content no one wants to try to remember which book is on which program. Since both applications are free, you could certainly load both on your machine. You can download the Kindle app from Amazon and the Nook app from Barnes & Noble. For those folks, both Barnes & Noble and Amazon have made their e-readers available as desktop applications. They consider the computer screen plenty good enough for reading already. While it's certain that e-readers are a significant part of the publishing industry, many laptop owners, however, like to curl up around their computer to read a good book, instead. Amazon recently announced that they sell more ebooks than they do traditional print and paper books. ![]()
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