Dear Blog, It has been a long time since I have posted anything and for that I apologize. I have no excuses other than to say that I just didn’t feel like blogging. In lieu of posting a lame comic today, I decided that I would share some interesting e-reader news. The talk this week is that the Nook isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Apparently, it has lots of bugs and is very slow (see links below). People speculate that once they’ve issued updates, it’ll be much better though

Remember when I said that Spring Design’s new e-reader was similar to Barnes and Noble’s Nook? Turns out it might just be the other way around. Apparently Spring Design is suing B&N for ripping off their ideas. Spring Designs says they worked with B&N closely while developing their Alex e-reader. Obviously these two aren’t exactly the same, (and personally, I think that Alex’s LCD screen is way cooler than the Nook’s, but that the Nook has a better name, and just plain looks

I haven’t blogged about this yet because for some reason I though Barnes and Noble’s e-reader had already been announced (probably due to all the speculation online about it). Anyway, from the website, B&N’s Nook features many snazzy things that Amazon’s Kindle doesn’t: a color touch screen LCD, “library view” for scrolling through your books, Wifi, memory expansion capabilities, a PDF viewer…and it costs about the same. But for me the biggest thing is: the ability to lend yo