just keep in mind that android tablets let you install the kindle app and the nook app so you can have all of those on one device. It really depends on your needs and wants as to what you get. the tablet with the best sound that I have owned was the vizio it had 3 speakers so no matter which direction you held it in you had stereo and the sound was fantastic. Wish more manufacturers would be more interested in the sound quality and take a lesson and put at least 3 or 4 speakers on them. I often struggle hearing with the one small speaker especially on my phone. I love love love my new Asus transformer tf300 10" tablet with dock but it too could use some improvement in the sound and speaker department. My husband still absolutely loves his lookbook in fact he now has his and mine and I am trying to make him transition over to my Vizio tablet so he has more options and can do other things on it. He is fighting me he wants to stick with his lookbook he is not a fan of the touch screen he keeps touching things by accident then I hear swearing lol. He is not a good student is all I have to say LOL That lookbook is extremely light weight you will not likely find any tablet that is that light.

Fran1523 -- Nook owners can lend each book only ONCE, for a period of 14 days. And if you "make the offer to lend" a book but the recipient doesn't accept it within 7 days, or rejects it altogether, you cannot lend it to anyone else. You cannot retract an offer to lend once the offer has been made. The lending feature will be available to Kindle owners very soon, so it is no longer an "advantage" for the Nook. Taigen -- The following is from the Amazon web site: "We are excited to now ship Kindle to Canada. Customers in Canada will enjoy: Books in Under 60 Seconds: Think of a book and you could be reading it in under a minute. Free Wireless: Free 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle. No monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots. For non-U.S. customers, there are also no additional charges for wireless delivery in or outside your home country. See Coverage Map. See Wireless Terms and Conditions Growing Selection: Over 530,000 English-language books to choose from; plus U.S. and international newspapers and magazines are available for your country. Because publishers give us eBook rights on a country by country basis, available titles for your country will vary from our current U.S selection. We are actively working with publishers to get the rights to all titles for every country and adding this selection every day. Check the Kindle Store to see available titles. Low Book Prices: New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases are $11.99, unless marked otherwise. You'll also find many books for less - over 135,000 titles are priced under $5.99" I don't think it's that any particular publishing house won't allow any of its books to be sold to Canada (or any country other than the USA), but it's more on a book-by-book basis. It's just a matter of time before all books available in the USA will be available in other countries. But, as it says on the Amazon web site, you can check the availability of books at any time, so if you're thinking of getting a Kindle, look to see if books you'd want are available. Nooks cannot be sold to anyone outside of the USA, so even with limited e-book availability, the Kindle is obviously the better choice. Nook owners keep mentioning the ability to get library books on their Nooks. I've searched for information on the Barnes and Noble web site, but cannot find anything about this. So, the only comment I can make is that if you have to go to the library to "borrow" the book onto your Nook, I don't see any advantage to that at all. It's so nice, with the Kindle, to be able to download books wherever you are at any time of the day or night. And I would imagine that you only get to have the library book for a specific period of time, and I don't like that at all. When you buy a Kindle book (or download a free Kindle book), it's yours forever. Even if you delete it from your Kindle, you can still download it again for free because it's in your Amazon Kindle account. Kindles in the USA have a one-year warranty. Kindles sold to folks in Canada have a one-year warranty. Canadians would have to send their Kindle to the USA for warranty service. I'm in California, and I'd have to send my Kindle elsewhere in the USA for warranty service, so we're even on that one. :-) Murray's Mom -- LOL! We have at least 800 physical books here in the house (hardbound and paperbacks; and, no, we haven't read all of them), but that didn't stop us from getting Kindles! We have the 2nd generation Kindles, so ours hold approximately 1,500 books each. The latest generation Kindles hold at approximately 3,500 books each. It's a heck of a lot easier to carry 100 books with you on a Kindle than it is to haul 100 physical books around with you! In fact, that's one of the driving reasons when I bought a Kindle for my husband. We both love to read, and when we go on vacation, we both always take books with us. But Hubs pretty much only buys hardbound books, and he tends to buy HUGE (thick) books. Try hauling four big, heavy, hardbound books in a carryon when you're flying somewhere. Ouch. Carrying a Kindle is a breeze. You can pretty much always have the Kindle with you, so you can read whenever you have a few minutes free - like waiting for a meeting to start, or while waiting for a bridge to "do its thing." We have two bridges in Sacramento - the Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge, and the I Street Bridge is a metal truss swing bridge. If you get stopped at the I Street Bridge as it begins "its thing," you're going to be there for at least 15 minutes. The Tower Bridge takes about 7-8 minutes. Many medical offices don't have magazines in waiting rooms now because of the risk/potential of passing germs, so if you have your Kindle with you, you get to read what you want to read while you're waiting. :-)

I bought several Nooks years ago when Kindles and Nooks first came out. We rarely used them. I get most of our books from the library and it was very cumbersome to download books to the Nooks. It was fine for books I purchased from B&N. However, the lack of a built in light made it a pain when I wanted to read at night in bed when dh was sleeping. I ended up using the app on my iPad. Though I prefer to read actual physical books, many times I can get a popular book more quickly if I reserve the ebook version, plus if flying, I prefer to not to pack a ton of books. I found more and more I was using the Kindle app on my iPad for ebooks b/c it was just so much easier. I bit the bullet and on Prime Day I bought myself the Kindle Paperwhite. I love it. I still prefer actual books, but for ebooks, for me, it has been so easy for downloading both library books and purchased books from Amazon. Honestly, I think the main reason I originally bought the Nook was because I don't want to see B&N go out of business. Even though it isn't a small time local bookseller, it is the ONLY bookstore left in my town. I would hate to see it go as all the other brick and mortar book stores have. That was really my only hesitation about purchasing a Kindle.

amicus, I'm surprised you can't get the Overdrive or Libby apps in Canada. I have the Overdrive app on my Kindle Fire, but I can't get the Libby app. I wonder if you had a newer Kindle if you would able to get one or both of them ? I don't understand why you can't get the same books from Amazon that we have available here. Now, my local library is very limited on the amount of e-books they have available - at least, the ones by my favorite authors, and some are not available at all. DLM, I don't have a Paperwhite, so I don't know much about them. I would assume they all have wifi. I don't know what the front light is for, but I don't think I would need that. Get the one with advertising included if want, or need to save money. As far as new or refurbished - I would get new if I could afford it and could get a good deal, or refurbished if I wanted to save money, as long as there's a good warranty. Storage depends on what you need . I suppose if you read a lot, get as much storage as you can afford; if you read less, get less storage. I guess if you're reading temporary books which will be removed, you won't need as much storage. Free books from Amazon can be removed from your device and stored in the cloud, so keep that in mind, too. There are also places online where you can download free books to keep. I hope this helped you a little. I really know nothing much about Kindle Paperwhites .