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Those commercials were enough to turn me off their devices and store forever.
Setting that aside: here's the thing. I can hunk of four reasons off the top of my head why I don't recommend the Nook versus the Kindle.
1. Sideloading--the Nook, as I understand it, limits the number of non BN purchased books that can be loaded. DRM with the intent to lock you into a system is annoying enough, but seriously, keeping you from loading your own content is an automatic "do not buy" as far as I'm concerned.
2. is a corollary to number 1.--BN's pricing is very often higher than Amazon's, sometimes by quite a bit. I received a gift card to BN this year, and decided to use it to finish purchasing a series I'd started buying at Amazon. Every single book in the series is $2 more when purchased from BN. With five books in the series, that's $10 just wasted--easily the cost of another book or two. Owning a Nook is means your content is more expensive than Kobo (which offers discount codes) or Kindle.
3. Durability--this one is based on a small sample size, but everyone I personally know who has owned a Nook of any model has seen that device fail after what I'd consider a pretty short lifespan. One friend in particular went through three in three years, while I was still reading on my original Kindle 2. I upgraded out of choice, she did it because she had to. (She's since given up & reads on an iPad; as such, she no longer buys books from BN either.)
4. is the straw that breaks the camel's back: the stories like the one at the start of this thread. I have ZERO faith that BN will continue selling the Nook, and only marginally more faith that they'll stay in the ebook business.
Given all this, why would anyone recommend going with a Nook versus Kobo or Kindle? It just makes zero sense. But it's sad to see. I spent many an hour in Barnes and Noble in my pre-ebook days, and I hate to think of it going out of business at some point.
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