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If this is your first Nook, and you live near a Barnes and Noble, I'd wait and go try out the Read In Store features (there is also a coupon on the Nook for a free smoothie as well -- at least on the e-Ink there is, I bet its there on the NC, too).
You give up Read In Store if you root right now. I love Read In Store, but then again, I have an e-ink Nook as well. I did find the feature unreliable though -- in many stores right now, the usage of the store wifi is so heavy that you can't get the feature to work. Best to go off hours. I'm near a large number of stores, one of which has an eatery right next door -- it's possible to go have lunch while you connect to BN wifi and read in store! With the in-store coupons I have gotten free brownies, chocolates, and smoothies over the past year (I haven't checked -- do rooted NCs also lose the in-store coupons?)
However, if you do root, it's easy to get back to stock so you can upgrade later, just takes time. Whether it is worth it now depends on how you want to use the NC. I like to browse a few web pages in bed and the Dolphin browser with its configurable gestures, LastPass plugin and other goodies makes the NC a reasonable way to browse lying down.
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