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Old 06-17-2011, 11:10 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by RAH View Post
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I guess one thing I'm saying is that I don't understand why folks get so upset over the 2 Nook Manuals that stay on their devices. Just ignore them, I'd say.
1. People like to control the content on what they own. If I don't want something, I want to be able to delete it off my device. What if B&N decides I need to also have a Maxim or Playboy magazine on my device to demonstrate how pretty the color display is? I want to have the *choice* to have an item on my device or not.

2. People don't like clutter. The nook library shows, what 3x3 books at a time? (I can't recall at the moment.) Every new book, app, or picture that gets shoved permanently to the device clutters up that display. When I'm wanting to browse my library, I don't want or need a bunch of extra crap in there. (User Guide and Quick Start guide are two different books? Really. *headdesk*)

3. People don't like being patronized to. The "you can't delete the user guide because you'd need it later" attitude is incredibly annoying line for B&N to take. F-off, B&N, I know more about my NC than the poor beleaguered tech writer you forced to write this POS "Quick Start Guide".

4. People don't like the hard sell. The user manuals were one thing, but the cooking app is just a big GO BUY APPS FROM THE APP STORE PRETTY SHINY GO BUY NOW sales push. Again, B&N can kiss off -- I'm not going to buy cooking apps from their app store and I don't want this ugly icon in my library from now until the heat death of the universe.

5. People don't like stupidity. There's no reason these items couldn't be locked into your account as "un-deletable, but archivable" and users could access them from the webpage and un-archive them if they ever wanted them back. This would, in fact, make MORE sense than the current implementation, since some of the "user manual" stuff is geared toward troubleshooting that you might need to do with the device OFF. The fact that B&N refuses to implement the content this way makes them either (a) lazy or (b) hard-selling, condescending jerks.
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