If that Nook is underpowered, your experience will suffer (at no fault of the product. Would you move a regular Piano in a Fiat 500?)
In the meantime (not trying to kill a sale Charles

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you can start up the content Server and use it with the Nooks browser to get books to the Nook. NOTE: the books need to be already in the
proper format within Calibre.
Walled Gardens (especially those w/broken glass topped walls)