--- title: Nook Touch compared to Kindle 3 author: George Mandis date: 2011-06-05 description: Marco Arment compares the Nook Touch to the Kindle 3. tags: post --- Marco Arment writes up a nice comparative review of the Nook versus the Kindle 3, complete with screenshots and measurements. As a recent, happy purchaser of a [Kindle 3][1], I'm pleased to see the features I care most about are either exactly the same or missing in the Nook. The killer missing feature for me though boils down to this: >While this will matter to very few Nook owners, I can’t use Instapaper or any other online service to send web content to the Nook: there’s no document-delivery mechanism like Amazon’s email gateway, and no web browser to download files directly. The only way to get non-B&N content onto the Nook, as far as I can tell, is to transfer it via USB or a micro-SD card. In my mind, the number one feature is the screen, but a very close second is the ability to email and transfer a variety of documents to the device for easy reading later. It's allowed me to take all of the online reading I do offline, which is exactly what I wanted. Oh, and speaking of Kindles and such, you should visit the [subscribe][2] and check out the automatically-generated MOBI version I've setup. I don't have a mechanism that will deliver it wirelessly to your Kindle yet, but you can download the blog in its entirety and transfer it yourself. [1]:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&ref_=amb_link_356481722_2&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393173&tag=snapwebl-20 "Buy a Kindle! They're neat!" [2]:http://blog.georgemandis.com/subscribe.html "Subscribe to Smiling Skepticism"