I am out to confess a most terrible sin. I have bounced from E-Reader to E-Reader in a quest to find true bookworm happiness. I had finally settled on the Nook Simple Touch. It was, for the most part, the perfect E-Reader. Still wanted an "Add to Shelf" feature, but I was willing to let that go in favor of all that the Reader had going for it.
But then I saw the Sony PRS-T1. A shiny, flashy little E-Reader. Better shelf-management, better page turn buttons, a feature to make the book you're reading the screensaver, and a MP3 player that shuffles the music. It had it all, and I told the Simple Touch that it was time to see other people. I gave the Simple Touch to my mother.
I got the Sony, and discovered bad, terrible things about it. It sorted by author completely differently, and since my Calibre Library had been named to accomodate the Nook system this was brutal. I spent two days renaming, and still it didn't quite fix the problem. Then there was it's slow processing power compared to the update that sped up the Nook, and made the fonts crisper. I mean, for three thousand books, the Nook will near-instantly display the covers when browsing through the Library, but the Sony just couldn't digest the content I was feeding it.
Freezing issues, shutdowns, and resets. It fought what I wanted from it tooth and nail. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and sold it off as a Christmas gift to someone else.
I couldn't take back the one I gave to my mom so I had to use the money to buy another Nook Simple Touch. So the question stands as this: Will the Nook ever forgive me, or will it explode one day while I'm reading the E-Book version of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"
