[Sethman]

I've been following the rooting thing now for a couple of weeks and I'm becoming more and more interested in doing it. However I'd like to get some feedback from others who have already traveled that road.

I've had this Nook Color from about the 1st week it came out and I've been very happy with it generally. There are three things that I really use it for. 1st reading, of course. Mostly free Epub books and some PDF's. And those mostly from my library using ADE. I don't have a problem with the Nook reader, but I wouldn't be against getting a better reader. Is Aldiko that reader without loosing any features of the stock reader?

2nd I use it for web browsing. The Nook browser I really don't care for. Is the Dolphin browser so much better the one of choice?

3rd on trips my son would like to watch videos in the car. I've converted a few of his favorites using DVD Catalyst to MPEG4's. They look pretty good. I can convert to DIVX as well on my laptop, which look better, but the Nook doesn't play those. I have no idea if there is a better app for playing videos than what the Nook does now?

I'm not really into games, so that's not a big factor. Also I really don't want to have to spend hours everyday tinkering with the Nook to get things working right. This is getting long, so I would like to appreciate a listing of 'must have' apps to get a rooted nook sailing along and accomplish my 3 most important goals.

Thanks for any advice.