NEW YORK — Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color is real. For $250, it may even be spectacular. Readers will find out for themselves sometime around Nov. 19.

“Our customers snack on content of all kinds all day,” Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said in a press conference announcing the device. He called the new Nook Color “the first reader’s tablet.”

The bookseller’s second-generation e-reader takes aim at both Amazon and entry-level Android tablets. Like its predecessor, the Nook