Want A Nook? You Are Going To Have To Wait

Posted on 30 October 2009 by


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A number of us jumped in and ordered a Nook as soon as the Pre-order site was up. It makes sense. Not only does the Nook look to solve some of the Kindle’s many usability issues thanks to its color touchscreen, but the Nook will let us access the eBook libraries we have amassed over the years. (Just how many eReader formatted books do you have again Judie??)

As it is, all of us will have to wait until the end of November before getting our hands on a Nook. If you just decided to jump in, however, the wait will be a bit longer.

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It seems demand has been high enough that, starting today, new Nook orders will not be shipping until December 7th. As the email we received notes:

We expect the demand to continue to be heavy through the holiday season, and we are operating strictly on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Translation, each day you spend trying to make your mind up is going to mean one, two or many more days of waiting.

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    501 at last count…but who’s counting? ;-)

  • Joel McLaughlin

    501 Books? Wow.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    That’s just in eReader format; it doesn’t include Kindle, hardback.& paperback. I like to read. ;-)