Robotics Update/Kindle vs Nook

Well, sorry to say, this is my last Robotics Update... We competed with 47 other teams at the Northern California Championships. Our Robot Game scores dropped by a lot, with our highest at 160. On our project, we did okay, but apparently not good enough to get an award. So, we didn't make it, but we learned a lot during these past few months. Click here to see our Project Presentation uploaded onto Youtube.

For quite some time, Amazon Kindle had had a monopoly of sorts on the portable e-reader market. Though there were some small-time competitors, the Kindle was the best known and had the most sales, according to many news sources. Enter the Nook. Made by Barnes & Noble, it has quite a few differences to the Nook, despite their similar appearance. They cost the same ($259), and the main screens are exactly the same(supplier: E Ink). On the Kindle, most books are free, and the rest have very low costs, even bestsellers being at $10. However, Nook has a large infrastructure of bookselling already, and has a "library" function to rent e-books. Kindle has recently come out with a Deluxe Edition, which is bigger and has International capabilities. Both work off of Wi-Fi. The Nook has bit of extra features, like a micro-SD expansion slot, and a color touch screen instead of a key board. Both are thin and easy to break, with Nook being a bit more delicate. I tried to be a balanced as possible in that review, but click here for more stats and info.