While waiting for their vitamins, customers at this GNC store can relax in a massage chair, read magazines, concoct their own aromatherapy lotions or mix up personalized potpourri packages.

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The free app combines NOOK's award-winning reading experience with shopping directly from the app, so customers can discover, explore and read a massive selection of books, magazines, newspapers and comics from any Windows 8 tablet or PC.

ENGADGET: Nook app comes to Windows 8 with clean Paper-like design

The smaller form factor makes the Nexus 7 ideal for reading books, and magazines are a joy to read here as well, thanks in part to a "text view" mode that pulls the text from an article out of its magazine layout and into a more easily consumable e-book-style view.

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My approach was to subscribe to a couple of business magazines and I read the newspaper every single day.

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Tony and I had become friends years earlier when a third friend noticed that both of us were conservatives who read magazines like National Review and The American Spectator.

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And read up on all the latest designers at OFr, a bookshop and gallery with a vast selection of magazines and books on design, fashion and photography -- a guaranteed well of inspiration to fill your suitcase for the journey home.

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With live tiles, NOOK for Windows 8 customers can easily get right back to their last read title, be alerted to the arrival of new issues of their magazines and newspapers, or even pin a favorite book or magazine to the Windows 8 Start screen.

ENGADGET: Nook app comes to Windows 8 with clean Paper-like design