I also liked the aspect about read-in-store and when the nook first came out (for a couple of years anyway) they had some great promotions in the cafe. Free chocolate and a few other items. The cupons showed up in the store section of the Nook and you showed that to the cashier. Which was rather cool. But they stopped that about when Nook Color came or a little after. A real shame. The idea of being able to sample books while being in the cafe is great and a benefit to them as you can't damage the physical books by say a food accident.
By the way, the information about the partitioning is inaccurate. They changed that with a update to the Nook NT and the tablets (Nook HD) after you weren't limited to just 1gig user space. Of course as also mentioned that wasn't the only option, just get a SD card. Which is what I did. I could have got them to change the partitioning , but decided against it since it would likely killed all of my data. I have since rooted the unit and could repartition, but again just didn't bother. With the SD card it just wasn't worth it to make the change.
Oh other features I thought were nice, the free articles and sometimes books when you go into the store with your nook. They say it is still in use but I can't find it on my Nook last time I was in a store. I think they moved it to another section or the store here removed it from their system. Anyone here still able to access that?