Refurbished Kindle2 3G ($90) or Nook 3G/WiFi ($85)

You can get a refurbished 2nd generation Kindle with 3G or 1st generation nook with 3G & WiFi at bargain basement prices today. These are both one-day deals, being offered on competing daily deal sites.

The deal on the Kindle is from WOOT, which is now an Amazon company, and it comes with a full one-year warranty from Amazon. Definitely worth considering if you are looking for a second Kindle in the family (or even your first reader; we have one of these in daily user here and there is little functional difference between it and the latest generation Kindle other than it doesn't support WiFi hotspots). By the time the warranty is ready to expire, there will no doubt be color Kindles or Kindle tablets out to consider for an upgrade. Like all Kindles, this one supports audiobooks (and there is a deal coming up on those; stay tuned for tomorrow's today's post on how to get 8 audiobooks for $6), although you load them by USB instead of via WiFi.

Over on Daily Steals, you can get an original nook with 3G and WiFi for $85. This ads WiFi (in case you don't live where AT&T works) and the ability to get the occasional goodie from the a B&N cafe, as well as to read books for free while inside a B&N. You can use MP3 audiobooks on the nook, but there is no support for Audible (which is no another Amazon company and highly integrated with the Kindle, especially the Kindle 3). The warranty on these is from B&N, but I know that the stories of warranty service on their forums seldom matches up to those at Amazon (no drop-ship replacement in advance of you sending in a broken unit, for example).

Which to get? Either would make a nice addition to a family that wants to add a second reader to access their library or a second reader for the person that wants to be able to read the freebies available in the "other" store. The nook can read DRM'd EPUB and PDF, in addition to books from the B&N store (a special flavor of DRM'd EPUB, PDF and their own eReader format) and can read books from most libraries. The Kindle is adding library support later this year and support Audible. Either way you go, it would be a winning choice.

Click HERE for the deal on the Kindle 2. This is worth visiting, just to read the ad text (woot is hilarious).

Click HERE for the deal on the nook. Click on Read More to read the full ad text. Although funny, I wonder some will think you can get Harry Potter as an ebook, after reading it?

Update:This just in: you can get brand new a nook WiFi only from B&N's ebay store (here), for only $99. Looks like the new nook that will be announced tomorrow is obsoleting all the current eInk versions, so it should be eInk, as well.