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12.10.09Mossberg reviews nook: “It’s not fully baked yet”[caption id="attachment_649" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Walt Mossberg reviews the nook"][/caption] Thinking of buying a Barnes & Noble nook instead of a Kindle? It's sexier, especially with that full color touch panel on the bottom, but the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg says it's not "fully baked" and that you should hold off for now. You can watch his video review below, but here's his summary after spending a week with the device: GOOD you can lend books [yeah but not very easily! -Ed.] the touchschreen navigation/keyboard panel is unique BAD it's slower than the Kindle generally buggy In his companion review at AllThingsD, he says this about the sluggishness ...
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11.09.09Don’t believe the hype about lending ebooks on the Barnes & Noble nookIf you've read reviews about the nook, the new Kindle competitor from Barnes & Noble, you may have heard that you can lend ebooks to friends. But don't get suckered in by this claim. Barnes & Noble is conveniently leaving out some crucial information about how the process works, and it turns out the "loan your book" feature is a lot less useful than most bloggers and journalists are making it sound. So how does the lending feature work? Barnes & Noble doesn't provide a lot of detail on it--the Nook promo page on barnesandnoble.com simply says the device "lets you ...
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