I ftired out the kendle and the barns&nobel tablet and another one I can't remember the name of. There was something I didn't like about all of those. My husband insisted I have an ipad. So he got me an ipad. I don't need all the stuff it does as I only wanted to read books. So I have this $500 electronic goodie that I take places and always have to worry that it is safe. Don't want to mislay $500. I would have been happy with the Nook. It does almost everything the ipad does for half the price. You can listen to audo books on all of them I think. Also several of the Apple ipods are audio book capable. I got a nano and you are supposed to be able to put audio books on it but we have never been able to load them. There must be some "secret" method cause we have followed the directions and it hasn't worked. If I had it to do over I would probably get the Nook.