Barnes & Noble Best eBooks Year-End Sale

Barnes & Noble, your premier destination for books, magazines, toys & games, music, DVD and Blu-ray, has something up in their sleeves to offer eBook readers and NOOK owners this holidays. Being the Internet's Largest Bookstore, Barnes & Noble is giving every NOOK eBook lovers up to 75% off the best eBooks of the year.

Sounds to good to be true? Well, it is true and this promo lasts until January 07, 2013. So what are you waiting for? If you happen to own a NOOK and would want to enjoy the holidays lounging in your sofa bed, tucked in a warm comforter with a mug of hot chocolate with melted marshmallows near hand, while reading eBooks then grab all best eBooks this year to keep you company.

So what are some books they have to offer? Here are few of the best-selling YA novels (Top Matches) you can choose from thousands:

• Beastly by Alex Flinn | NOOK eBook - $ 1.99

I am a beast.

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell.

Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly... beastly.

• Delirium: The Special Edition by Lauren Oliver | NOOK eBook - $ 2.99

Ninety-five days, and then I’ll be safe.

I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It’s hard to be patient. It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness.

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

Top 5 Smartphones for Reading

Ebook reading has brought inconsiderable amount of joy to our fellow book lovers, bringing us the convenience to access numerous amount of books in our mobile devices with just a single tap. Examples of these popular devices used for Ebook reading are Kindle, Nook and iPad, in which are all tablet PCs, but with their sizes, don't we just all wish there were smartphones good enough for reading to provide us with same contentment we get from the former devices.

Well, that's the reason, why I searched all the net to look for the best smartphones available in the market that are ideal for us book lovers and our fondness of reading on-the-go:

• Samsung Galaxy Note II | Price Range - $224.99 to $799.99 via CNET

Who says you can't get the best of both worlds? Well, you can, Samsung Galaxy Note II is not your average smartphone with good looks and big screen because it offers advanced features similar to those you have in your tablet PCs. Yes, one can say that the Samsung Galaxy Note II is truly a smartphone-tablet computer hybrid. With its wide 5.5 display and HD Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, you won't feel like your reading in a tiny phone at all. The Samsung Galaxy Note II also features a blazing-fast quad-core processor, runs under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean platform, 4G capability and life-long battery. And as Samsung puts it, "it has everything you need to get things done." Oh, and it also features the S Pen stylus for your ease. And did I mention, it can multi-task too!

The only problem you may get from this smartphone is it fits too big in your hands and so does to your jeans pocket. But anything other than that, it's more durable than the Samsung Galaxy S3 and has a chic design that its predecessor Samsung Galaxy Note.

• iPhone 5 | Price Range - $199.99 to $1,039.99 via CNET

The iPhone 5 is the sixth generation of the iPhone and the successor of the iPhone 4S. Unlike the older models, the iPhone 5 introduces a slimmer, lighter model, and a higher resolution perfect for reading Ebooks or webpages. The 4-inch Retina display of the iPhone 5 allows offers its users a more vivid and lifelike images--"a larger and more beautiful canvas made the right way." Another advantage that the iPhone 5 has over Samsung Galaxy Note II and Samsung Galaxy S3 is that it has the same width as the iPhone 4 thus as easy to use with one hand.

Other features of the iPhone 5 includes an ultrafast, wireless connection that lets you browse, download and stream content at blazing speeds, an A6 chip that provides performance and graphics up to twice as fast, the iSight camera that lets you now shoots in panorama and the iOS6 as its mobile operating system.