Barnes & Noble releases eReader app for iPad

I love my iPad... I read off of it every day...used to read off of my kindle everyday for more than a year but haven't used it since the iPad was released...

I could not wait for the BN ereader on the IPAD. Unlike one of the previous posters, I DO annotate the heck out of books. I'll often end up with 5 or 6 pages of typewritten notes where I have copied paragraphs from the book and added my own thoughts. I can then search for keywords on my computer and revive my reading knowledge in an instant - much of which fades away when I open my next book. I have notes from books many years ago and it has become a great reference for me. I was VERY dissapointed however that you can't copy or transfer notes and clippings off the ereader to say, my PC. Will anyone speculate if BN will ever offer the ability to transfer notes out of the reader? Or for that matter, do any of the others? I don't think kindleIPad or Ibooks allows you to annotate, clip and transfer. BTW.. this would seem to me to be a huge feature for students. The ereader that solves annotate/clip/transfer will sure to have a bunch of sticky book purchasers.

I like the continuous scrolling page feature on iPhoneBookShelf more than iBooks or any other. Also, I find a black background with grey text easier on the eyes.

This piece describes the "B&N eReader" as opposed to the one just called "eReader" (so far only for iPhone/iPod). As B&N also owns that one, I'd like to know where the iPad version is. I've bought quite a few books for eReader, but they're unreadable in full screen on iPad, and since it's a different format (ePub as opposed to Adobe Digital Editions), I won't be able to transfer books to the B&N eReader. Good heavens, what I wouldn't give to be able to read everything in one place...

I have a Nook and an iPad, and I can honestly say that I still prefer to read books on my Nook. It's lighter and the e-ink screen is very nice. And after the most recent software upgrade, there are no longer the lags that drove me crazy before. The iPad is okay for ereading when I don't have my nook around (rare), but mostly, I'm not using it for reading ebooks.

I will say, however, that this B&N iPad app is great, much better than their iPhone app, which is largely a piece of crap.

(One notable advantage the Nook has over iPad/iBooks is that my Nook can load DRM-protected ebooks that I check out from my public library. The iPad can load epub files, but not with DRM. I check out as many ebooks from my library as I can, and the Nook often wins on that feature alone.)

I've read books using both the iBooks app and the Kindle app. As a reading experience, I prefer iBooks. My favorite feature is the way it handles page numbering, and being able to see how many pages are left in the current chapter. I find this keeps me reading longer (there's only 10 pages in this next chapter? Yeah, I've got time to start that!).

The Kindle app is also quite good. My biggest complaint there is the lack of the iBooks feature described above, and the fact that the UI automatically disappears when I turn the page (I really want the option to leave it up all the time). The fact that you can sync your book across multiple devices is a big plus in the Kindle's corner, but we should see the iBook app for the iPhone within the next few weeks, so that'll help the case for iBooks.

I've never been a book-annotator, but I understand that a lot of people like this feature, so I'd love to see it added to iBooks.

The Barnes and Noble app is a train-wreck. I played with it for an hour, and then deleted it off my iPad. I don't have the space here to describe all the things that were wrong with it. Some application designers have absolutely no concept of good UI design. One example: Seriously, do I need a color picker to decide what color the page will be? Give me a couple of options that provide different contrast, and leave it at that. Or if you are dying to give me infinite possibilities, then give me the aforementioned simple options, and a "custom" button. But making me use a color picker to find a "sepia" tone pretty much guarantees that I won't bother.

I tried it last night. It seemed a bit sluggish. Not for turning pages in the book. But navigating around the application. I also didn't see any place to make adjustments in screen brightness in the app. But then again, it was late and I was tired. I'll try looking through it again some other time.

If someone loans me a book for 2 weeks, is it removed from their library and added into mine?

That sounds awesome, but only if you can loan it out more than once. Otherwise, I might as well go read the book in the store manually. ;)

Is that the same "lend me" feature as the Nook device? In that case you can loan that book one time to one person for 2 weeks maximum. After that you cannot lend the book again. Also, the publisher has to enable this feature per book and you know they really love that.