ereaders

If mom loves sinking into a good story, get her a gift that'll keep the pages turning time and time again. Bookworms and speed-readers have found literary nirvana in ereaders, which can store thousands of books, magazines, and various media (and then some).

Barnes and Noble's Nook HD and HD+ and Amazon's seven-inch Kindle Fire HD are now on sale through Mother's Day, May 12, which means that it may be the perfect opportunity to get your mum the ultimate tech companion for travel and downtime.

Check out the discounted prices for the three seven-inch tablet/ereaders after the break.

In the wake of the Nook Tablet announcement this morning, Barnes and Noble also announced a price cut for two of its other ereading devices, the Nook Color, now priced at $199, and the Nook Simple Touch, now just $99.

Both devices have been popular among bookworms and will offer shoppers a nice selection to choose from this holiday season.

If you thought that the Kobo ereader was limited to just Borders stores (R.I.P), think again. Kobo has launched its next edition ereader at Best Buy, and it's coming with a surprising feature: a touchscreen! The Kobo Ereader Touch Edition ($130) comes with an extremely competitive price tag along with a Pearl E Ink touchscreen display, which makes glare-free reading in the sun a breeze and flipping through pages as easy as a tablet, comes with seven different fonts (with the ability to upload as many additional fonts you prefer), as well as line and margin settings so you can customize your reading experience.

And don't worry — the Kobo store is stocked with thousands of titles for you to download, and the Kobo Touch supports Epub, PDF, Mobi, TXT, HTML, RTF, along with CBZ and CBR comic book formats. Finally, you can get a new Kobo Touch in one of four different quilted back-plate colors — black, silver, lilac, or blue.

In a blow to Helvetica fanatics everywhere (this girl included), a new Princeton study finds that the easier the font, the less you'll remember after reading. Turns out challenging, "disfluent" fonts actually help readers retain information, not hinder it as many people believe.

This could spell bad news for avid ereader users hoping to quickly retain much of what they've read, since most feature simple and unchangeable fonts. It makes sense — the more complex the font, the longer your eye lingers on the word, and the longer your brain has to process and retain the information, sort of like a complicated mental workout. Even if ereaders did start offering the option of different fonts, I don't know that I'd purposely choose a complicated one in hopes of retaining more information.

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