Top Kindle, Nook & Sony eReaders' Product Comparison Reports
With the heightened popularity of hand-held devices in 2009, eReaders took the number one spot as the top gift item this past holiday season. And it appears even with the soon-to-be released Apple iSlate and the proposed Google Netbook nothing is going to stop Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook and Sony Reader from continuing to battle it out for market share.
To provide our readers with the most up-to-date comparison data on specs, pricing and privacy issues, the following analyses by some of the most reputable industry experts should help you determine the best buying decisions. In a concerted effort not to recommend one device over another, we will let the research speak for itself.
Harry McCrackenHarry McCracken, founder and editor of Technologizer has covered the technology beat for the last two decades. His popular Technologizer Web site received 1.9 million page views from about 400,000 unique visitors in August, 2009 alone. His product reviews are unbiased and his disclosure statement on his Web site notes, "companies who advertise on Technologizer receive no special treatment in editorial coverage; those who don’t advertise aren’t penalized in any way. In my seventeen years in this business, I’ve never changed so much as a syllable to curry favor with an advertiser or potential advertiser–and I never will." 
Here is all the pertinent data collected by McCracken pertaining to the top eReaders, published just prior to the holidays.
Technologizer Report
Electronic Frontier FoundationIn December, the Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a first draft to their Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy. According to their analysis, eReaders possess the ability to report back substantial information about their users' reading habits and locations to Amazon, Sony, Barnes and Noble and others. EFF felt it was incumbent on them to alert the public to this issue because as they explain on their Web site, "none of the major eReader manufacturers have explained to consumers in clear unequivocal language what data is being collected about them and why? In addition to the top three eReaders, this chart also lists Google Books and the FBReader.
EFF's Guide to Buyer's Guide to eBook Privacy Report
Wireless Reading Device Product's report provides a eBook reader comparison chart of the latest models of the Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle DX, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader Daily Edition and Sony Reader Touch editions.
Wireless Reading Device Product's report
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by Anonymous
picture graphs
It's nice to have a graph detailing the perks each reader has, it's even better when the picture is large enough so it can be read,
epicfail
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stupidity = undated article and charts
Get a clue, moron.
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E Readers
Which one should I buy Sony Nook or Kindle? Which one gets the most free books and is easiest to use. I do have an Iphone Dennis
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Clicking "Ctrl" "+" will
Clicking "Ctrl" "+" will zoom in and make it readable.
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Looking
Im looking for an ereader that also has not taking capabilities....do any of those have easy note-taking capabilities
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Ctrl + Epic Fail as Well
yahhhh...CTRL + would seem like a good idea, but not when its all pixelated. Photoshop classes might help on the next article...and a date would be nice :)...thanks for the effort though
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Sony EBook vs BN Nook
The Nook is far superior than the attempt for Song to get a ereader out on the market. WiFi is a plus in any venue in this day and age. Sony failed. It seems they saw others marketing their ereaders and tried to put out something half-assed. Very difficult in downloading books - some work, some don't.
Nook coordinates between the PC and the Nook - whatever you do at the BN site (download) automatically without wires gets onto the Nook. Extremely easy to operate and use.
The Nook is far superior to the Sony ereader in everyway - price, use, download, operation and features.
Sony should be ashamed of themselves in rushing this out at the last minute and not putting their combined technology into it. But they did not and charged the most for their infantile ereader.
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I won't deny that e-book
I won't deny that e-book reading comes with some advantages but I'll just say that I prefer the traditional books, I don't know I just see them differently, I get more found of them. I do have my own textbook buyback online membership but as far as it's possible I prefer them to send me the actual paper made books.
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