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Common Spaces: Reserve in advance. The Adams Lower Common Room and Upper Common Room are great for hosting meetings, study groups, and so on, but book them ahead of time. The Adams library is another cozy space with its own group of regular study-fiends. Nook-like common spaces dot the halls of Adams entryways, and the underground muraled tunnels lead to what used to be the Adams pool and is now used as a theater of sorts. For the athletically inclined, the Adams gym is a little lacking. The “dungeon” has six machines...
...first thing you notice about the Nook is that it looks a lot like the Kindle. That's because its major component - that weird black-on-gray, matte screen - is exactly the same as the one in the Kindle. Amazon and Barnes & Noble get them from the same supplier, E Ink. (See nine of the latest e-readers...
...there are differences. The Nook's design is better than the Kindle's. The casing around the edge, which doubles as the page-turn button, has a nicer feel to it, and its clickability is just right: tough enough to minimize accidental clicks - a major hazard with the Kindle - but tender enough that it isn't hard work...
...Nook also has a small color touchscreen for navigation, which brightens up the experience, and it's more responsive than the poky main screen. But it's a mixed blessing. The iPhone has trained us to expect high performance from touchscreens, and this is a decidedly pre-iPhone touchscreen. The interface hasn't been thoroughly play-tested either; there are a few rough edges and dead ends...
Bottom line: the Nook is a nicer package than the Kindle. But the real question is, Will either of them survive the arrival of Apple's tablet computer, which is expected in late January? We used to think the only way to read e-books was on drab-looking E Ink displays, but Apple's ultra-sharp iPhone screens have proved otherwise. As nice as the Nook is, like the Kindle, it will probably be obsolete long before paper books...