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As a Kindle owner, I would have bought this Nook IF B&N had opened it to apps. I don't buy on the future or maybe.

Too bad, this cutie could have killed it.

"I found it quite comfortable to hold with my thumbs along the bottom bezel, and my index fingers and forefingers bracing the back"

Since "index finger" and "forefinger" are two names for the same digit I find this phrase rather ambiguous. Do you mean "index fingers and middle fingers"?

Now that you've told us how good the new Nook is, the next question is how good the Nook for iPad software is, because if my family gets a Nook, we'll have to use the Nook store, and will definitely want to share that content with our iPad. Has anyone tried out the Nook for iPad app?

I'm still interested in this despite some shortcomings:
1.) No ereader PDB support (I just learned a way around this actually, pulling out DRM, converting, etc.)
2.) No music support
3.) No email/web browsing.

But, with a battery life like it has, I suspect this will become an extremely long lasting device. I'm surprised they didn't just put a solar panel on it too like a calculator.

For all the complaints though, they have a reader that does my list above—the nook color.

This post has been edited by Link33: 02 June 2011 - 01:48 PM

Actually the page-change savings caused by refresh every sixth page is a serious drawback! After the 2nd or 3rd page the text looks like it is running out of eInk! That is, the text is not uniform in color and edges are not crisp. It is most disconcerting to use this device due to this design 'feature'. It is like reading a book printed clearly only every 6th page! Once again, B&N software development team has missed the mark. I don't care about email and web as I have a computer for that. I want an eReader that is the best device for actually -- dare I say it -- reading a book!

I bought one and returned it after a day. The hardware is great, but the software was terrible for anyone with more than 50 ebooks (I have about 200.) It's just a pain to find anything, and if you use their 'shelf' function, you'll find that it has to be done on the Nook -- which is extremely tedious. The nook will also LOSE all of your shelf setting if the minisd card unmounts itself (which happens occasionally.)

I thought I'd solve this problem by storing everything in the 2GB of memory that is advertised until I discovered that only 241mb are available for non Borders books. This is very dishonest advertising I think and effectively renders the device useless to me.