It's remarkably similar because they had the benefit of analysing the Kindle and Sony devices, taking many of their good features and skipping the bad stuff!
I was so very tempted to buy a nook but I am waiting for Kindle 3, which will hopefully be out before Feb 2010 (1 year after Kindle 2).
I have to say though, if the nook had 'real' lending of books (lending a single book unlimited times) I would have gone with it. With books we have a culture of reading/recommending/lending. So we find something great, discuss it with friends and lend it to them. It's been that way for 100 years, so for the e-book manufacturers to take that right away is a huge step backwards. I want to be able to lend a book to as many people as possible, with a 'lock' on it, so it can only be opened in one location at a time, like a physical book, to stop wholesale piracy concerns.
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