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Bookworms rejoice! Now rather than having to buy a Nook to read your favorite book, you can simply squint your eyes and read the latest Barnes and Noble Mills and Boon on your cell phone – providing you’ve got an Android that is.
That’s presumably because B&N wants its customers to be able to enjoy their e-books without having to buy an expensive device, and, also presumably because its biggest competitor Amazon did the same thing about two weeks ago. Oh, and also Borders, which also has an app.
Indeed, just weeks after the Kindle app came to the Android marketplace, B&N has added it’s unoriginally named eBookstore “the only Android e-reader application to offer eBook lending.”
Your friends better be quick readers, though, the lending feature only allows users to digitally transfer (lend) their books to others for 14 days.
Available for any device sporting Android 1.6 onwards, the app also boasts backward compatibility with all previous Nook purchases, so you can pick up reading Moby Dick where you left off, straight from your Nexus One.
You can read your books horizontally or vertically on your Android cell phone screen, change the font and also the size, so you can read one big letter at a time if the urge strikes you.
Also, if you don’t have an Android phone yet, don’t despair, the Nook app is also available on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and even on your old antiquated PC.