@cc: Most medium-to-large corporations would frown at sending corporate mail to external servers.

Why "the Taliban and U.S. military got to it" ? It looks like this was all the handiwork of the U.S. military only.

Here in India we've had whisky in tetra paks for years now.

Tiny titanium balls? I want big ones. Or at least normal-sized ones.

@John C. Reid: That was the old Bond. This is the new one.

They've got nothing on Vietnam.

@belassoff: With the new firmware update (1.50), the Nook switches off on its own after a while, so I'd expect the battery life would improve. I doubt it would reach the claimed one month that the Kindle provides of course. The update also improved the screen readability somewhat, and the page turn speed a lot.

Nothing for Linux yet ? :-(

@pixelsift: I haven't read too many of those, but Andy Oram's Beautiful Code wasn't too bad on the Nook. One peeve was that sometimes you have code on one page and a description or explanation on the next or previous page. On those occasions it was irritating to keep switching from one page to another.

@songs: You're right. dpreview doesn't seem to think it's worth that much though.

@RtFusion: Is there a DSLR in the same price range? Even the 1D Mark IV costs only ~ $4000.

Not only is it faster, but it looks a heck of a lot better on Linux than the previous betas did !

You could just add a bunch of "net use" commands to a .bat file. I'm on Linux now, so I can't verify the syntax, but I think it's:

@LordThanatos: Image fail last time.

@Terry: Reminds me of this Gary Larson 'toon.

Without great readability in sunlight (I assume, since it's LCD) and a few days of battery life, this is no e-reader. That said, this looks like a pretty good tablet for the price. I bought the original Nook for $259, two days before they cut the price by $60 :-(, although I did get a $50 gift coupon. If the specs are…

@chiruanna: I don't see a cell phone replacing my watch until they invent one I can read in the sun.

@morphoyle: Even Ubuntu's Synaptic package installer predates the app store (it was merged into "Software Centre" pretty recently though), and I'm pretty sure other Linux distros like Fedora have had their variants for a long time. But considering the sheer number of applications developed for Windows I wonder if an…

I found that smartphones have an inherent advantage compared to the old button-based phones when it comes to waking you up. My hands had gotten used to feeling their way to the right button on my old Nokia, and I could switch off the alarm without even opening my eyes. But even with the stock Android alarm, I have to…

This definitely deserves an Ig Nobel.