On one site (can't remember which) they said it has a capacitive screen -- not IR like the H2O? If that's true I kind of wish they'd done a flush screen.
On the other hand, everything else sounds fine to me. All the storage I need and I assume I can just go on buying the ebooks elsewhere and loading them onto the Nook via Alf and Calibre and the USB cord.
I don't at all need a new ereader but I haven't bought one in about a year now, and there doesn't seem to be a new Voyage (my Voyage has a terrible screen which like an idiot I didn't return) or a new baby Aura on the horizon.
There are some very attractive covers, especially the retro daisy one, and both ereader and cover are showing as available in several nearby stores. I'm afraid this can only end one way..........
ETA: I just read on the Nook forum that it does have a flush screen. I'm definitely getting one.