Now, we can’t promise you’ll have the same luck as our fortunate tipster if you wander out to your local Barnes & Noble, but it does seem that at least one location is handing over Nook Tablets a little bit early. Not to be outdone by its bitter rival, the Kindle Fire, the slate with the brick-and-mortar bookstore roots also started moving 24-hours ahead of its scheduled November 16th release — though, in slightly less official fashion than Amazon’s device. If the image of the unboxed slab above isn’t enough to convince you, check out the bonus receipt pic after the break.

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Nook Tablet comes off the shelves one day early for one lucky customer originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:24:00 EST.