The ONE and ONLY thing that I miss after giving up my iPhone for my BB 9700 is the Kindle App. I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS APP TO BE RELEASED for the BB community! This is indeed GREAT NEWS for the avid reader!
Fair enough. When I have the opportunity to read a book I've been happy with the content availability through fictionwise and baen.com; but most of my reading these days is textbooks in the old fashioned paper format.
I have already read two books and purchased 5 using the Barnes and Noble app on my Storm 2. I've been comparing BnN eBook store to the Kindle store and it seems that the prices are identical and BnN has a larger selection. The BnN app will soon allow sharing books with friends and the new Nook looks like a Kindle killer.
Do you know if other ebook formats are supported on the Bold 9700? I have a Sony E-reader and most of my ebooks are in pdf-format. Am still waiting for my Bold (first BlackBerry - very exciting) - if the screen is comfortable enough for extensive reading I wouldn't have to take my ebook everywhere and could buy a smaller handbag:-)
But the Sony Reader has e-ink technology - so the screen isn't backlit which makes for very comfortable reading. Anyone got any experience with long texts on the Bold screen?
While I have watched movies on the Tour - that is still only about two hours of SMALL SCREEN. I'm not sure that I could read for hours and hours. I have not seen the kindle and/or any new offerings from others but the "lighting" system is also different as someone mentioned above - making it easier on the eyes as well as the size of the screen and fonts. I'm not sure.
The kindle ap will sync between the phone and the kindle so that whereever you leave off reading on one device it will sync to that page on the other device and allow you to keep reading very cool.