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.

WTF is a nook?

F.Y.I. my google is broken so you need to answer this.

I linked to it in the first sentence of my post.  :-p

The nook is an e-reader similar to Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader.

They're wireless readers that can hold libraries of books without having to lug around a library of books.

Your first negative. Do you buy electronic books from there?

The Barne's and Noble bookstore is the only place you can wirelessly buy books from, but it reads PDF's and the standard form (EPUB I think) so you can by from other sources too, you just can't buy those from the nook.  You have to buy them on the PC and transfer them to the nook (which is simple enough, just connect it through the USB cable and drag the file onto it).

The ones I was looking for were some of my old books I wanted to read again I didn't expect them to have, the Dark Elf Trilogy, and a random book I bought a few months ago at Half Price Books I hadn't gotten around to reading yet.  They seem to have all the new stuff and popular stuff.

The only downside is you can't buy books from Amazon and I believe they have the largest selection (though I haven't actually checked out any other places yet so don't know how much truth there is to that).

Thats pretty neat, tell me... to education books count as well?

I prefer reading actual books.

The only thing I miss from real books is the sense of progress.  With the nook and other eReaders, you only have a page number, with books, you're actually getting through the book. 

What I don't miss is the space they take up, holding real books is much less comfortable the holding a nook, and I don't like the feel of paperback paper (I have really dry hands and that paper always makes them feel dryer).

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And not saying you're wrong, eReaders aren't for everybody but I sure do like them.

I'm glad you enjoy it, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I buy an ebook reader.

bah, just found out the audio player only supports MP3's. That's a pain considering 90%+ comes from iTunes so they're m4a's.