ZDnet discovered that Nook Tablet reserves only 1GB of space for non-B&N content

One of the biggest selling points for the Nook Tablet is the surely the amount of storage space that it offers in comparison to the Kindle Fire.

Barnes & Noble’s offering has 16GB of onboard memory with a microSD card slot that can handle up to 32GB more, while the Kindle Fire only has 8GB of onboard memory while Amazon relies heavily on the cloud

But there’s a curious catch to the Nook Tablet that was spotted upon launch time: the Nook Tablet only reserves 1GB of space for all content that doesn’t come through Barnes & Noble.

After speaking with Barnes & Noble reps directly, here’s the basic breakdown:

• The Nook Tablet has 16GB of total storage space.
• Approximately 3GB are reserved for the operating system and such, leaving 13GB leftover for the user.
• Thus, 12GB is reserved for all content that comes from B&N’s digital store, meaning books, magazines and apps — at least for the time being.
• 1GB can be for anything else the user wants to add (i.e. music, PDFs, etc.).

Much like Amazon is trying to do with the Kindle Fire, B&N is also using the Nook ............................

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