Harboring a deep jealousy that B&N is more popular than Borders, I would of course prefer that the nook had come from Borders instead.  In fact, I even would have preferred that the Amazon’s e-reader was the nook instead of the Kindle because I like shopping at Amazon more than B&N.  Life never works out the way people want it to, though, so there won’t be any e-reader devices from Borders, just e-reading applications, and Amazon’s e-reader still refuses to work with any DRM but its own.

For just a few golden days, however, I thought maybe my favorite bookstore was finally going to make a device I currently crave.  Sure, with just the sparse information in that post, the supposed e-reading device could have turned out the worst of the bunch when it finally came about, but I was expecting a lot out of it.  After all, Borders has some great technological touches, such as the coupon text codes (before the service was “temporarily suspended”), e-mailed coupons (which B&N has, too), a way to track loyalty points and apply them to purchases in which people forgot their cards (which I think I saw at Best Buy or a similar store)…on second thought, the technological touches aren’t so great after all, but I still expected a lot out of it just for being my favorite bookstore.