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Consumer Reports has ranked Barnes & Noble's recently launched Nook ereader over Amazon's latest-generation Kindle for the first time ever.
The Simple Touch Reader (pictured above) "matches or bests -- albeit modestly -- its Amazon competitor in almost every aspect of performance," the magazine says.
The findings come as little surprise. As we noted in a review last month, the new Nook does improve upon the Kindle 3 in several respects -- particularly by offering a touchscreen and double the battery life. B
But the victory is likely to be short-lived. Amazon is ripe to launch the next generation of its Kindle device this summer, as it has for the past three consecutive summers.