Barnes and Noble recently had a press event for their Kindle-competitor, the Nook, and it is pretty much my favorite gadget right now. Wanna know why? Here’s why:
Free in-store reading. You’ll be able to take the Nook to any of Barnes & Noble’s gajillion stores and read one ebook, for free, each time—the same way you might wander into the store, pick up a book and read it for an hour or two. Barnes & Noble is really thinking about how people actually read, which is a great sign: This kind of feature makes the Kindle feel like it’s forcing you to change your reading habits rather than adapting to them.
It’s really an obvious feature, one that feels natural for anyone who’s been in a bookstore, but one that no other eReader has thought of before. It’s features like this that’ll cause the Nook to pull ahead of the Kindle if it can make up for time difference in release.
You can read about some of the other features of the Nook (like sharing with friends, which is pretty much the only thing the Zune has that I wish the iPod did) here.
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