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readerhead,

The Nook Color is a tablet. It has been locked on purpose to provide a customized UI and experience, but main input/output is an LCD touch screen with a virtual keyboard, means, a tablet. You will not get that "transition" between pages because is no eink.

If you are looking for a device that you can use indoors mainly, your reading sessions are short and battery life is not a problem, you will be happy with the NC. NC is also good if you like magazines because you can enjoy them at full color.

Sony, Kindle, Kobo, among others are dedicated ereaders. They have eink display and battery life of weeks instead of hours. They have pros and cons, and support different ebook formats but they all have one thing in common: eink screen. To me (and many other customers here and around the world) eink is the closest reading experience to a regular pbook. It reads natural and the device is so light and comfortable that you can read for hours without eye or hand fatigue.

By the way, that short transition period when turning pages will be history once you use an eink device for several hours; it will be something as natural as changing pages in a regular paper book.