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There is not much difference between a 2nd and 3rd Gen 8GB iPod Touch. You would see a difference in the 32GB and 64GB 3rd Generations...they have a higher speed chip and a few other features. I was planning on buying one for DD8 for Christmas from Apple, but being OOS worries me. I bought the same one for my DD11 for her birthday this year and she loves it. No problems with refurbs. Guess I better jump on this one.

Absolutely. So how does the Overdrive work at Philly? Are you on a waiting list for the book you want? Is there a limited amount of e-copies?

After some hands on today at lunch at the local B&N along with the info about the free library in Philly, I ordered the refurb one from Buy.com. Thanks for all the info.

Thank you for the great info. I went over to the B&N store and got some hands on with the Nook. I really liked it. The demonstrator person told me that our county library system will go live with Overdrive in March 2012! So I just got finished ordering the refurb Nook from Buy.com. My wife is going to be so happy for Christmas! EDIT: Thanks again SuggaD. I went to the Philly site and printed out an application. That's a great deal.

That's great, thanks for updating the info. Sadly for me, Greenville (SC) Library does not have Overdrive. Hopefully in the future.

Thanks for the info. The next county to us has Overdrive, but I would need a local address to gain access to the library. Hopefully our county (which is larger) will get Overdrive soon. I emailed them to ask, but haven't heard back.

My wife is technology challenged, so to speak. So I want to make it easy for her to d/l books. I don't mind borrowing from Overdrive if it's easy. For us only our Public School System has Overdrive, not the county library system. So the books available to adults are limited. YMMV.

I mentioned in another post that borrowing e-books from libraries is not as easy as one thinks. Money is also tight with us, so I can understand saving money on the refurbished Nook. But if Amazon offers more free books than BN, wouldn't it be better in the long run to buy a Kindle? It's only $40 more...most people can live with wi-fi only.

I've been researching this and came across and interesting article about libraries lending books. As of now, the libraries that do ebook lending are constrained to lend ONE copy of an ebook at a time. You also have to be at the library building and bring your e-reader with you to borrow. Publishers are not very happy about "e-leanding" since they lose money and are putting a lot of constraints on libraries. Overdrive is a company that lends e-books (through a library or school), but not on Kindle or Nook. You may want to check with your local library first before you purchase. I'm still torn between a Nook or Kindle for my wife...she mostly reads books from the library and our library has very few ebooks. At least with Amazon, from what I've heard, there are more free books than BN. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_your_local_library_lend_e-books_or_can_they.php

I just spent the last 15 minutes with a Sears "personal-shopper" on the phone. He looked everywhere for that code, even went online to some of the websites that were showing that code. No joy. He did see in the system that there were several complaints about it.

I'm thinking about the same for my 8 y/o daughter for Christmas. I would go for the refurbished as mentioned earlier. $149 is a very good price, with free ship. At squaretrade.com, you can get an extended warranty for $20. If you are worried about your daughter using the internet, you can block sites through your router, which she will use for the Wi-Fi. You can also set up an account for her on iTunes and monitor what apps she downloads. Apple tries to keep porn and those types of apps off the app store. But there are still some adult apps that I wouldn't want my daughter to see. But if you want her to have a camera, that feature is really nice to have in the 4G, but expect to pay about $140 or so more. The ipod touch camera resolution is not as good as the iPhone is.

Looking at the pictures the two ads are the same. One DSi has the Brain Age Collection, the other has Mario games. Kmart gives you a $25 Nintendo card. It's quite possible Amazon will match this, unless these particular DSi systems are exclusive to Target and Kmart.

Got 2. Thanks!

How 'bout Home Depot and Lowe's??