With physical volume buttons, a microSDHC card slot for adding up to 32GB of storage, and a display that’s less susceptible to glare, the Nook Tablet has the edge in physical design.

The Kindle Fire versions of the same books lacked this feature. Better still: Many children’s books on the Nook Tablet have page animations: Tap a specially coded spot, the illustrations move. The Nook Tablet has a read-aloud feature, where a prerecorded voice reads the picture book, as well as new recording capabilities, where you can record your own soundtrack to accompany the book–a nice benefit for parents and kids alike. The Nook Tablet has access to a wider selection of children’s books than the Kindle Fire, and presents them better. When I zoomed in on a magazine page on the Kindle Fire, I had trouble controlling where I ended up–the screen was so sensitive that the page jumped all over the place. The Kindle Fire often garbled entire lines of text in magazine pages and even when I zoomed in to enlarge a page, its text looked softer than on the Nook Tablet. Magazine text was more readable on the Nook Tablet overall. And the Nook Tablet’s single-column text view makes far more sense than Kindle Fire’s awkward text view, which fills the screen with hunks of text. Also, the Nook’s scrubbing bar for moving forward and back in the magazine is better constructed than the one on the Kindle Fire. Barnes & Noble seems to have a broader selection of periodicals than Amazon does. The Nook Tablet comes out on top for magazines, too. The Nook Tablet displays magazine text in a column overlaid on top of the magazine behind it. It’s definitely better for readers who need large type. Though both tablets provide eight font-size options, the sizes on the Nook are more useful. In presenting standard books, the Nook Tablet offered more meaningful viewing choices.

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