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Just to make the Barnes & Noble picture murkier, meet Alex.  Alex is an Android-rocking dual screen Ebook Reader that more or less suits the descriptions and prototype pics we saw on Gizmodo last week of a device that seemed to be called Athena.

Alex, from the previously unknown Spring Design, has a 6inch e-ink screen for reading and a 3.5 inch color  touchscreen underneath for shopping and web browsing. You can also transfer content from the touchscreen up to the reading screen to save battery as well as save material off the web to read later. In terms of wireless Alex is sporting 3G (EVDO/CDMA/GSM), as well as WiFI.

So is THIS the device Barnes and Noble will announce tomorrow? My hunch…no. There have been way too many statments connecting Plastic Logic to the Barnes and Noble Ebook Reader, and if your product is going to get heralded as the next big thing by the world’s second largest bookseller at a fancy-shmancy New York event tomorrow, why ruin the buzz with a silly-assed Press Release the day before?

Of course, it COULD be the B&N device, but I hope not. Frankly, the Alex is ugly. I like the smaller touchscreen on the prototype pics a lot more.

Plus, one more bit of weirdness. Ina Fried commented on this question at Beyond Binary, and said that she had heard that the B&N Reader was to be called Alexa. Alexa?

Tomorrow can’t come soon enough.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).