It looks like Barnes & Noble have come up with their own ebook reader, the "Nook", designed to compete with Amazon's Kindle. Since the Kindle just went international, I had been thinking about buying one, but now I'm not so sure. The Nook boasts great features like being able to lend books for up to a fortnight.

Wire.com has an article here.

The official website is here.

Edit: According to the official website, thousands of free ebooks will be available, including Pride & Prejudice. Maybe we will see old Public Domain reformed works on this list?

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David
Assemblies of God
Mackay, Queensland, Australia

Just saw it and you beat me to the post
Personally, I just can't bring myself to spend the $ on neither Kindle nor Nook.

Still, they're cool!

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Donald P. Grubb
theol46@embarqmail.com

Berean Baptist Church, Mansfield, OH
Mansfield, OH

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Hi David,
Seems nice, preorder price $259.00. My wife wants me to purchase it do to having no room for books any more. She says look it holds 1,500 books and look at our house with a 1,000 books.

Will they have old Public Domain reformed works on this list?

If so I might purchase one.

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John Komenda
Symphony Bible Church
Conservative Baptist
Buffalo, New York

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. Is.65:24 ESV

I like it a lot. The only problem for me is that I have the Kindle app on my iPhone, and have purchased a number of excellent works. They wont transfer, so likely I'd end up repurchasing a number of books; I like the size of it far more than my iPhone for reading complete books, though, and that alone may cause me to shell out the $259.........

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DeJuan
Grace Fellowship Bible Church (Independent)
Culpeper, VA

Being able to lend books is a step in the right direction, but still way short of the mark. I can't imagine buying a book that I a) couldn't later give away and b) might have to rebuy when the gadget becomes obsolete - talk about throwing money away!

Having said that I am considering buying some kind of reader, but for drm-free material. I like the stuff the AGES Library - Christian Bible Studies, Commentaries, Reference, Sermons, and more produces (I see there's a new John Bunyan collection that I'd love to have). It's somehow not very adequate to sit in the garden and read a pdf on a laptop or a netbook or a cell phone!

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Paul
No denomination, affiliated with FIEC
"Deliver me from worldly dispositions, for I am born from above and destined for glory" - Valley of Vision
"They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation" - Peter