Barnes & Noble is busily promoting their e-reader alternative to Amazon's Kindle: the Nook.
I predict that this baby will sell like hotcakes. This seems to be a very nifty gadget, with a color screen (looks like the text is in black and white) that includes a touch screen like many cell phones have.
I can tell you that I love the thought of this, because I loves me my gadgets. I love playing with them and figuring them out and programming them. I know I would have fun with the Nook.
However, I also loves me my books. I would have a hard time giving up holding a book, sometimes-musty pages and all, in my hand as I read it. If I traveled extensively, I would love one of these, but I think I’ll just keep enjoying my decades-old library books. (Although I have to say I was a little nonplussed today when I found two pages stuck together and extracted a dark, gummy substance from between them. I do not want to know.)
I have another prediction: everyone will start calling this device the Nookie. Let it begin here, and let it begin with me.
Looks like Fred Durst and the boys already want one.







