Which would you recommend Kindle Fire or Barnes & Nobel Nook and why?

Hi My baby girl etc., Kindle Fire is OK for video playback, web browsing, and apps. However, it's not good for reading (very reflective screen with no coating), and not the best for anything else with choppy video playback and slow apps load. For only $50 more, you can get Nook Tablet - it's performance beats Kindle Fire in all pro reviews specifically on video playback, the screen quality, and how fast apps load. Reported issues with Fire are it runs hot to touch, video playback is jerky, touch screen is not responsive and it takes 2-3 touches to register, power button placement is very poor and is prone to accidental power off, all the hype of Silk browser is a myth where the browsing is actually slower than on other Android tablets, etc.

Nook Tablet has Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Angry Brids, etc., the best battery life (30% better), the best non-glare laminated screen (visibly noticeable difference in side by side tests in video playback and EBooks reading), double the RAM and space for apps/photos/movies, microSD slot (not on Kindle) and a microphone for Skype (not on Kindle or Color), and much zippier performance during video playback and apps usage than choppy/laggy act of Kindle Fire according to many user reviews. Nook tablet is a bit lighter than Kindle Fire as well.

Sample review to consider:

PCWORLD:

The Nook Tablet's unique display has less reflectivity than the Kindle Fire's, and so is easier to read. In addition, some fonts and videos render more sharply on it than on the Fire. The dual-core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4 CPU and 1GB of RAM made switching from app to app a breeze, with little lag or stuttering. Movies played smoothly and stutter-free in Netflix, and the high-definition images re-rendered for Nook's 1024-by-600-pixel display looked lovely, with terrific contrast.

The Nook Tablet's display was dazzling overall. The screen's glare was minimal, thanks to what Barnes & Noble calls its VividView display. The IPS display is laminated and bonded; so unlike on other tablets's displays--including the Kindle Fire's--there's no annoying, visible air gap between the glass screen and the LCD beneath.

Well, there's several different Nook models out there. Since I don't know which one you're looking at, I'll give you a brief overview of all of them. Anyways, all of the popular e-readers out there, including the Kobo, work very well. It really all comes down to personal preference; none of them are inherently better than the others.

The Nook Simple Touch also uses E-ink. It's probably the most comparable to the Kobo; like the Kobo, the Nook Simple Touch is based on the reading experience alone. Not backlit, so you can read it anywhere you'd read a regular printed book (including out in bright sunlight), but also like a printed book, you can't read it in the dark.

The Nook Color is well-suited for reading magazines or children's books with pictures. It doesn't utilize E-ink and is instead like an iPod or computer screen. Hard to see in the sunlight, but E-ink isn't available in color yet. Since the screen's backlit, you could read this one in the dark if you wanted to.

The Nook Tablet is exactly what it's called: a tablet. You can use it for watching movies and browsing the web as well as reading; reading isn't necessarily the primary purpose of the Nook Tablet. It's got the same kind of screen as the Nook Color.

All Nooks read epub and pdf format e-books and the primary store from which to buy e-books is Barnes and Noble. I'd like to point out as well that for most e-books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Kobo all have very similar if not exactly the same prices. No one store is cheaper than the other.

The Kindle Fire is similar to the Nook Tablet: it functions as a tablet primarily and has e-reader capabilities as part of that. Again, no E-ink here, hard to see in sunlight. As with all the other Kindle models, you buy e-books from Amazon for the Kindle Fire. All Kindles read mobi files (and possibly pdf's, but I'm not 100% sure about that).

Annnd Sunnyworm already described the Kobo Touch.

Neither. I recommend the Kobo Touch

http://www.kobobooks.com/touch

Kindle fire is an lcd screen, as opposed to that of E-Ink, a technology that uses actual ink to make an ereader appear more like a book (like the kindle touch and the mini nook thing). Lcd screens will strain your eyes and drain your batteries, but they are in color. E-ink is almost entirely black and white, but cant maintain a single charged battery for up to a month without recharge.

The reason I recommend the Kobo Touch is that it uses the E-ink technology and it reads many different files, including pdf, mobi, rtf, epub, txt, and many more. Kindle is limited to pdf and amazons special format for books. I don't know about the nook. you can buy the kobo here

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

seriously, look at the formats it can use before you buy it, or you will end up buying all of your ebooks overpriced at amazon.

EDIT: TL;DR

If you want an ipad like device for movies, get the kindle fire. If you want a device used for the sole purpose of reading books, get the Kobo.

The Kindle! The Kindle doesnt use lighting like the lighting on your computer screen or phone, but yet its still very easy to read. The KIndle is also good when it;s sunny outside, so you could still read in the sun. The Nook has bad lighting and you can't read in the sun with it,

The Fire. Amazon in my opinion is a more technologically advanced company. Barnes/Noble is just a book store.