Meet the Nook, Barnes & Noble's new e-reader
UPDATE: Here's the latest on the nook, with specs.
Barnes & Noble is expected to unveil its e-reader Tuesday,and ads touting the device call it the "nook," according to the Wall Street Journal. Details about the nook appear in a full-page ad in the New York Times Book Review section for Oct. 25, the Journal said, noting that the device would sell for $259, have a color screen, and allow e-books to be exchanged among friends. (That's a big leap from the Kindle and other e-readers.)
News about the name has led some Twitterers such as mikecane to gasp -- and suggest slogans: "Curl up with a Nook." "Put a book in your Nook." "Get Nooked." "Have some Nookie tonight." Lots of folks will have fun with that name. But after all, what the heck is a Kindle? It sounds like a Yiddish abbreviation for a small body part: "Careful with that knife, bubeleh, you might slice off your kindle!" Which brings me to my slogan for B&N's new device: "Don't be a schnook. Buy a nook."
Comments
What are you doing tonight? Ans: I am looking forward to a NookNite!
Posted by: Portia756 | October 20, 2009 12:18 AM
Dave
THE NOOK it is called. As in get some Nookie on the side? see my take here. Humor, sir.
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/2009/10/want-some-nookie-getting-some-extra.html
Posted by: Danny Blloom | October 20, 2009 12:41 AM
My Kindle is very upset today. He's afraid that I may leave him for another electronic reader. He's wrong. I am totally loyal to him.
Posted by: Gail Farrelly | October 20, 2009 3:03 PM
My only issue, and honestly I think Barnes & Noble dropped the ball on this...
I know some people have commented about the fact that eink does not lend itself to backlighting solutions. But in my opinion Sony had a decent start, just poorly implemented. These devices desperately need some sort of lighting, even if it's just a ring around the screen that shines some soft lighting across the top of the screen. If they had put that on the Nook, they'd have a star on their hands - priced better than the Kindle, more features, better option.
Unfortunately I'm still not ready to let my Kindle go just yet. I have too many Kindle books stored on it that I can't convert thanks to Amazon.
Posted by: ReVeLaTeD | October 20, 2009 11:49 PM
While it cannot be denied that B&N's Nook has many valuable features over Amazon's Kindle, it is still lacking two major (and in my opinion) absolutely necessary features: 1) The ability to read it in less than ideal lighting conditions; and 2) The ability to read MS Word documents. As such, at $259 I believe that a 8.9" Netbook is still a much better deal. After all, a Netbook is a real computer, whereas neither a Nook nor a Kindle is.
Posted by: Matt | October 23, 2009 9:54 AM