US bookseller Barnes and Noble has caught fondleslab fever, unveiling its Nook Tablet today to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire. The Nook ebook reader has been Amazon's hottest competition in the US, with 27 per cent of books sold in the country coming from Barnes and Noble, the company said. And it looks like the one-time …

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Monday 7th November 2011 16:41 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Pictures or it didn't happen.

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Monday 7th November 2011 16:42 GMT Lloyd

Local Storage!!!!!

Now, that's sensible, slap on a cloud backup utility and you're sorted.

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Monday 7th November 2011 17:10 GMT Kyoraki

Hang on...

Haven't they already got a 7" android tablet called the nook color? Sure it needs some fiddling to get the android market on it, but it's all there.

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1. Tuesday 8th November 2011 11:06 GMT gafisher
  
  It's Complicated
  
  "Haven't they already got a 7" android tablet called the nook color?"
  
  Well, yes, but that's a "reader" and now sells for $50 less. The new higher-priced "tablet" seems to be essentially the same device without the confining "reader" designation.
  
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Monday 7th November 2011 17:15 GMT K

Import...

I'm in the UK have a my Nook Reader.. also I have Nook E.

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1. Monday 7th November 2011 19:00 GMT Pooka
  
  You're lucky, I've not had Nook E in years :(
  
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Monday 7th November 2011 17:15 GMT M7S

"there are no known plans to introduce any of Barnes and Noble's Nooks outside the country"

That's a shame.

I was looking forward to purchasing one for my Cranny for Ghristmas.

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Monday 7th November 2011 18:57 GMT Random Coolzip

All those specs and no ship date?

The Kindle Fire is supposed to ship on the 15th, when's this thingie supposed to materialize? Are we supposed to pre-order for a mid-December delivery? And who'd be dumb enough to do that?

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Monday 7th November 2011 22:21 GMT JDX

Read and Record

Isn't that what the obnoxious kid on Young Apprentice was banging on about?

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Monday 7th November 2011 22:21 GMT ratfox

What does it run?

Android or Windows? Ice cream sammich? Mango? QNX?

...Symbian? ........WebOS?

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