Nook Tablet’s Read and Record hands-on (video)

The multimedia features at the new Nook Tablet mean greater than just watching video and being attentive to music — they really give slightly a lift to the reading experience, besides. The best implementations of that is the brand new Read and Record feature, an update to the Nook Color’s Read and Play feature, which takes good thing about the Tablet’s new mic to let users (parents commonly, we assume) record narration to children’s books. It is a simple but clever addition that certainly drives home the product’s value for families.

The feature permits you to record custom narration on each page of compatible texts, offering up the words as a script. Once recorded, the text may be saved with an effortless icon, so kids can play it back themselves — when it comes to our hands-on demo, it was a gingerbread man (fitting, perhaps, given the OS we’re working with). The feature is equally simple to exploit on each side of the equation, and is a pleasant little bonus for folks who, for whatever reason, can’t always be around to read to the youngsters. Video after the break.