nook

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So my wonderful wife got me a nook for Christmas.  I knew she was either getting my a Kindle or a nook, I just wasn't sure which.  I had suspected it was a nook since she started talking it up, though I had read reviews that worried me.  Luckily they came out with an update that was supposed to fix the problems.

Anyways, short quick review for my new nook:

• (-) Barne's and Noble Book store doesn't have a lot of the books I'm looking for
• (+) Touch screen at the bottom is a neat touch
• (+) Perfect size and screen is a good size too
• (-) Touch screen feels like a first generation touch screen from whanever those were brand new.  Sometimes it's responsive, sometimes not at all.
• (-) Christmas day I couldn't download anything, supposedly due to large amounts of people trying to download books.
• (+) Digital ink display is brilliant.  It really looks like I'm reading a piece of paper.
• (+) Buying books is quick and easy.
• (+) Easy to search B&N book store
• (-) Menu's are a little funny to navigate
• (-) Severe lack of options, like no way to organize books
• (+) Lets you add your own backgrounds and screen saver.
• (+) You can leave it on all day and be fine for battery life, the battery might last the 10 days it's supposed if you're just reading.
• (-) The battery drains worse than a PSP on full brightness watching a UMD if you start using the 3G, Wireless, or touch screen, it will probably last a few hours at most if you're using that too much.
• (+)You can put your PDF's on it and it reads them fine (I put my DnD books on it)
• (+) Has a music player you can listen to while reading
• (-) Looks like music player only supports .mp3's, haven't tried .wav yet...
• (+) You can add bookmarks, highlight text, and lookup words in books.
• (-) Doesn't read Amazon.com eBook file format (though that's more of a negative of Amazon)
• (-) Moving around menu's is pretty slow, though update fixed this
• (-) Turning on the nook takes well than more than a minute.
• (+) You can change text size from small, med, large, and extra large. 
• (+) Three different fonts you can use
• (+) Has 1.3gigs of storage and since books about about 600k, that leaves room for a lot of books and music.
• (+) Comes with three books, though they aren't that great (Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre I believe).

All in all, I'm really happy with my nook.  I downloaded Diary today and I'm about half way through it and also bought most of the Hitch Hiker's books since that only seemed right.