Welcome the Nook

Technology continues to march on.Now we have the Nook.

This is the lastest E Reader pioneered by the American Book chain Barnes and Noble.

But as Steve Yelvington points out it has already crippled itself:

There's no Web browser on it,no Web browser means no Web browsing. It also means you can't use the built-in Wifi alternative from your hotel or airport lounge, because you need a Web browser to authenticate.

and

devices like the Nook and the Kindle are slow and therefore best used as readers of fairly static content. A PDF-like periodical is more at home on these devices than a Web page with 187 embedded images, Flash movies, CSS and Javascript files. This will change, too; the ARM chip will continue to improve and the displays will get faster and connectivity will be ubiquitous.