Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook

I'm sitting here at my desk, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab® 4 Nook® is dropped into my lap. I cast my mind back to recent history and remember that Barnes & Noble left the tablet game, looking to find another way to have Nook tablets distributed. Enter Samsung, and the new Galaxy Nook. To break it down simply, it appears that Barnes & Noble approached Samsung, who repurposed the Galaxy Tab 4 – the Galaxy Tab closest in scale to the average book – and gave us the future of the Nook tablet. At the heart of the device, it's still an Android tablet – running the most current version of the operating system. I'm not going to spend any time going over the specs with you, because you can see them for yourself here. What I want to talk about is how Samsung has improved upon the idea of the Nook Tablet. The original Nook Tablet ran a special version of Android, overlaid with Barnes & Noble's special interface, and some mild restrictions. Since this new Nook is openly an Android tablet, you get all the benefits that this affords you, while still having access to the Nook environment. Instead of overlaying the bookstore, you access all of that through a collection of Nook-branded apps: Highlights – the catchall for your notes and highlights from your reading Library – All of your titles, from books to magazines. Search – Search your titles or the shop. Shop – Books, magazines, movies, TV, Apps, and more! Settings – access the nuts and bolts of your Nook account, and change the way the reading software behaves. Today – Recommendations based on your shopping and reading activity in the Nook apps. Apps – A handy place to find apps for your Nook (including the OverDrive App). In addition to the Nook-branded apps, you can also install the OverDrive app to access books, or (as a result of the partnership with Barnes & Noble), you can enjoy magazines and periodicals from your favorite public libraries. You can use the browser to checkout streaming video, or cloud reading through OverDrive Read. If you're me, you can drop an entire library into a device the size of a slender volume, and free up that shelf space for more pictures of my kids.

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