Listen, and I’ll tell you the story of the bookstore chain that stormed into the hottest category in consumer electronics and conquered.

Talking about this tablet then let me tell you it is one of the best tablets known in the market. This is just not good because of its features but because of its look as well. You can see the above picture,its look is really very stylish and dashing.

But that was fiction. Barnes & Noble Inc.’s new Nook Tablet ($249) is a solid product, worthy of duking it out with Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle Fire. Considering that the Nook comes from a desert planet where the only entertainment was shooting womp rats (Sorry, I mean “from a bookstore chain.”), it’s really impressive.

But the Nook doesn’t quite muster enough force to blow up a Death Star. Barnes & Noble’s earlier Nooks were dedicated book-reading devices, and the Tablet is at most a half-way step into the world of general-purpose tablet computing.

Like the new Kindle Fire, the Tablet has a 7-inch, touch-sensitive color screen, about half the size of the iPad’s. It’s the same screen as on the Nook Color, the e-reader Barnes & Noble launched a year ago. I thought it was the best e-reader yet when it launched.

The Tablet improves on the Nook Color mainly by beefing up the processor and the memory and extending the battery life to 11.5 hours of reading, or 9 hours of video.

The Tablet also has improved software, but the Color will be getting the same software through a downloadable update.

The Tablet is debuting with Netflix and Hulu applications. Coupled with the nice, sharp screen, that makes for a good device for that TV and movie fix -as long as you’re connected to Wi-Fi. The apps actually highlight one of the shortcomings of the Tablet: there’s no way (short of hacking the software) to use it for offline viewing of movies you buy or rent.