Having launched in November of 2009, the Nook eReaders from Barnes and Noble have quickly become some of the most popular ebook readers on the market, standing up against giants like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Readers.
Barnes and Noble has done a lot over the past year to embrace the evolution of digital books by creating several new ereading apps for various platforms and by continuing to evolve the Nook and their digital library.
The Nook Tablet is the latest color ereader/tablet from Barnes and Noble. It looks just like the Nook Color but comes with some major upgrades in hardware.
The most prominent change is the addition of a dual core 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, making the Nook Tablet fast enough for things like 3D games and 1080p video.
In addition to B&N's selection of ebooks, periodicals, interactive magazines, children's books, and comic books, the Nook Tablet comes with several media apps pre-installed, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Pandora.
Barnes and Noble's new Nook Touchscreen ebook reader is being marketed as "The Simple Touch Reader".
Using infrared technology for the touchscreen, the Nook Touch features a 6-inch paper-like, non-backlit E Ink display with 80% less flash when refreshing pages than other ereaders.
The new Nook claims the longest battery life of any ereader, up to 2 full months with WiFi off and up to 3 weeks with WiFi turned on.
The Nook Color is Barnes and Noble's latest creation that combines several different elements into a single device.
With its 7-inch color touchscreen, the Nook Color is designed for reading newspapers, magazines, children's books and other color content in addition to ebooks.
The device also doubles as a portable multimedia device, capable of browsing the web and playing video and music thanks to the Android OS, of which can be hacked to run a number of 3rd-party Android apps.
With the release of the Nook Color and new Nook Touch, Barnes and Noble will keep selling the original Nook 3G and Nook WiFi E-Ink ebook readers until supplies run out, but they will not make any more.
These are designed for people who like to read on paper-like, non-backlit displays with efficient batteries that can last for several days instead of a few hours.
The Nook 3G and Nook WiFi both share all the same exact features with the exception of the free 3G wireless.

By supporting Adobe EPUB and PDF format, B&N's ereaders can read encrypted ebooks from a number of online ebook retailers as well as free library ebooks. There are also several sites around the web that have free ebooks in compatible formats.

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