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Originally Posted by volwrath
yeah but this entire post is just a bitch session. His last statement was that the NC is certainly not a universal ereader, and that was completely ludicrous. It reads pdfs, epubs (both adobe and b&n DRMed format), kindle, html, cbr. The only format I dont think it handles is iBook epub.
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A rooted NC may be a universal reader, but the stock device certainly is not, as it fails to open most pdfs. Again, even a rooted NC isn't all that usable as a universal reader, since pdfs often hang or have slow page turns and are reset everytime you open them.
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Even unrooted the NC is a pretty nice epub reader.
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It's o.k. if you're not distracted by screen clutter while reading, and you don't mind not being able to put your own epubs on the home shelves.
When I bought a NC, I expected I would simply be able to turn on the screen, touch an icon, and start reading a book. The device does in fact work that way, but generally only for epubs and magazines purchased from B&N. Maybe I was simply being unrealistic in thinking the NC would work just as well with books not purchased from B&N, I don't know, but I can't see why they would even allow the device to read non-DRMed pdfs and other documents if they were going to restrict most of its actual reading functions to B&N purchases.