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March 27, 2011 06:17 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nmXW9ccX3lQ/Turning-Your-E-Reader-Into-a-Cheap-Tablet
Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet
grahamsaa writes "NPR's Weekend Edition aired a story today on how rooting the Nook Color can turn it into a full fledged and relatively inexpensive Android tablet. The story claims that the process takes about half an hour, and only requires the purchase of a Nook and a microSD card, and points listeners to a YouTube tutorial on how to root the device. Could this signal a change in how mainstream users see devices like this? Could rooting Android devices like the Nook ever become mainstream?" We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about. 
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