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I've never really had a problem with glare on my Nook from the black screen bezel. Shadows from the screen bezel...only when I'm reading in dim light, and the light source isn't from over my shoulder.
The weight "problem" was fixed after I rooted my Nook. It wasn't that the weight of the unit was too much, but that the length of the unit caused it to feel heavy when my thumb was over the page forward button. After rooting, I reversed the function of the page forward/back buttons so that I now hold the Nook further up the side. It is much more comfortable for me now.
The page turn buttons are fine the way they are designed. Just press the button on the little bump and there isn't any problem. They are only "stiff" if you are trying to press them off center. I find page turning with a screen swipe to be best when I have the Nook propped up for reading as it really takes no pressure at all.
Library navigation on the standard Nook is atrocious unless you purchase ALL of your books from B&N. Once again this was fixed by rooting the device. In all honesty, I would have returned my Nook the first week if I was stuck using the default library.
My only complaint about the touchscreen is the battery drain, and that isn't really excessive. It is perfectly fine for an input device. If you are getting too much glare on the touchscreen, turn up the brightness a bit.
I'm not a fanboy in any sense of the word. I don't buy into the excuse that the Nook is in version 1 while the Kindle is coming out with 3. B&N has had the benefit of seeing Amazon's mistakes with the previous Kindle versions. I believe that without softroot, the firmware still holds the Nook back from being a truly terrific ereader. With softroot the Nook is a great ereader, and I believe that with the right firmware changes it could truly be "top of the class."
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