Barnes & Nobles has gotten in good on the eReader game with their brand new Nook. The new Nook features a secondary touchscreen as well as some shiny new features, and has instantly become a hot item.
The Nook, which recently became, is Barnes & Noble's answer to Amazon's Kindle. If you don't think this was released explicitly to trump the industry leader in as many ways as possible, a quick glance at Nook's website quickly reveals this, as the "Product Comparison" page is just pitting the Nook against the aforementioned device from Amazon.The Nook, at $259, is cheaper than the Kindle, at $279, and looks like it has more features too. One thing it doesn't have though is the Amazon eBook store, although they emphasize they do have over 1,000,000 titles available. Anyway, on to what makes the Nook noteworthy.
An excellent 3.5" display is first and foremost. Not only does it use an E Ink® Vizplex electronic paper display (same as Kindle) for clarity, the display goes into new territory for eReaders with color and touchscreen capability. It also features that second screen below the first. Now, when I first heard there would be 2 screens on the Nook, I imagined an unnecessarily complex folding display akin to a real paper book (am I the only one?). Of course, it's nothing like this, and the small screen below is essentially used for browsing titles - click a small image of the book below, and it will pop up on the larger screen above.Link...
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