Amazon, anybody? Amazon seems to be positioning itself to take over the electronic book market and the Kindle is (from what I can tell) alot more popular than the Nook. One of the Nook’s weirdest features is that a portion of its screen is backlit, using up a constant flow of battery power. The whole point of these readers is that they don’t use power until the screen needs to be refreshed (a page turn for example). In my opinion, the Nook will crash and the Kindle reign supreme, which will take Barnes and Noble out of the electronic book market and leave them still only in the printed book market. Printed books are already going away, so Barnes and Noble will probably be purchased by Amazon. Just my opinion, tho.