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Originally Posted by phenomshel
You must have played with an early in store model. The new firmwares have substantially changed the behavior of the touchscreen. All the ones I've seen have been snappy to respond and seem like they'd be fun to use on a daily basis.
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I play with Nooks almost every time I walk into a B&N. One time I asked if it was the new firmware and they said yes. For a Nook user, maybe the firmware seems significant, and I'm sure if I had a list of what it had improved, I'd be impressed. But for an outsider who just picks one up, both pre- and post- firmware, and gives it a quick test drive, they seem the same to me. I think the book cover scrolling was a little bit nicer (still bad), but the normal menu vertical scrolling was just as poor as before.
Blame Apple, but I don't want to deal with choppy, laggy, graphical UI's anymore. If it's going to be choppy and laggy, I'd rather forego with it entirely and use a non-animated and/or text-based UI that works well with its limitations.
I really want to like the Nook, it sounds awesome on paper, but as far as I'm concerned, they're cutting too many corners. Of course, the big silver lining is that--as with any eBook reader--once you get past the UI and are into reading your book for the long haul, the UI is largely irrelevant.