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Originally Posted by booklover6
I feel certain that if you see one, you will want one. I handled one yesterday and I was VERY impressed.
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Me, too. This is a
very nice reader. Sharp display, comfortable to hold, font and margin adjustments sufficiently granular, snappy page turns, (although the buttons are slower than tapping), the natural light. This is a terrific value at $120.
The storage partition is frustrating. And, as so many have said, while 1 GB is enough for most uses, increasing the total memory on one hand but decreasing the amount available for sideloading seems needlessly in your face. It's really not going to force anyone to buy B&N content who ordinarily wouldn't, but it's going to put off (obviously, going by the reaction here) some who would have bought but don't like the restriction. One minor side plaint is that I would have asked/commented about the memory issue, but no one approached me the whole time I stood there playing with the new Nook. With one of the Nooks, didn't they do something where you could take it to the store and they'd repartition the memory for you to make more available? Is this total fantasy on my part?
I'm glad to see B&N is still out there swinging and good luck to them; this really is a superior mainstream device. Now, if only they'll take seriously feedback on the memory!
I also got to handle the new Oasis next door at Best Buy and here's another reason to like B&N: all I could see was on the Oasis was demo mode, which didn't let me try out any of the controls or settings at all. And no salesperson approached me in BB, either.