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Kindle 2 vs Nook

Barnes & Noble just recently unveiled its upcoming eReader, the Nook

By: Kevin Hoffman

Nov. 19, 2009 06:30 AM

Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.

On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical review. Click here to check out the blog post.

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Kevin Hoffman, editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer's Journal, has been programming since he was 10 and has written everything from DOS shareware to n-tier, enterprise web applications in VB, C++, Delphi, and C. Hoffman is coauthor of Professional .NET Framework (Wrox Press) and co-author with Robert Foster of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed. He authors The .NET Addict's Blog at .NET Developer's Journal.

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