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Originally Posted by taustin
To each his own. I'm more interested in convenience, and rooting loses the considerable (for me) convenience of being able to buy a new book while I'm sitting on the toilet. I keep a complete archive of my purchases in Calibre, against future device replacement, and have no interest in doing anything that I can't do without rooting.
You, clearly, have different priorities, and that's why it's a good thing that the nooks are so easy to root.
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That depends, I guess, on which Nook you have. If you have one of the standard Nook readers, this may be the case. This is definitely not true for the Nook Tablet though. The Nook Tablet is severely limited out-of-the-box, at least compared to the rooted variety. I rooted mine within a week of opening it last Christmas and I haven't lost the first bit of functionality. I still have wi-fi, I can access the B&N store from my NT, I can still use the Read-In-Store option when I'm in the store. The only thing rooting has done is allow me to open up the capabilities of my NT and not shackle me to B&N's very poor, extremely limited app store.
Keep in mind that I went for a basic root and added another launcher. I didn't debloat anything though. I kept all of the original software. If someone fully replaces the operating system, they will likely lose a lot of the B&N functionality like you said but many people root without fully replacing the OS. All roots are not equal.
- Byron