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Demand For The Nook Is Pushing Pre-Orders Into December

3:21AM Sean Fallon | If you were thinking about grabbing the Nook for the holidays, you had better make up your mind soon. High demand for the e-reader is pushing the second wave of pre-orders into the first week of December. More »
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E-Reader Drought Breaking? Not Quite, But Closer

11:00AM Chris Oaten | The e-book market in Australia is still pretty flat. Most of the people I know who own one picked theirs up while OS. Or online. It’s not like you can walk in to Officeworks and be overwhelmed by choice, so it’s good to hear of one maker’s effort to capture the local market. More »
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Hands On With The iRex DR800SG: An E-Reader, Unchained

2:58AM John Herrman | As more and more companies roll out more and more e-readers, it’s becoming clear that this isn’t really a hardware game. Sure, the iRex DR800SG is a slim, minimalist 8.1-inch e-reader, but it’s the software that’ll make it great. More »
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Anyone Having Kindle Screen Issues?

2:40AM Adam Frucci | Someone sent CrunchGear a shot of their brand new Amazon Kindle and some pretty serious problems they’re having with its screen. This could be an isolated issue, or not. Is anyone else having similar issues with their Kindle? Let us know in the comments. [Crunchgear] More »
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My Wife’s Take After a Week With an eReader

10:50AM Mark Wilson | I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she’d talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle “ugly” btw, which is important as anything else for a gadgets that’s designed to look at for hours on end, I guess). Her verdict on the experience? Good, but there’s one thing she misses from real books: More »