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Originally Posted by Calenorn
I agree in principle. I bought a NOOK to tell B&N that it was OK to revive the Simple Touch body style, which many of us loved. To tell them that it was OK to produce the best night backlight in the business. To tell them that it was OK to keep trying to provide SOME competition for Amazon. To tell them it was OK to keep supporting epub format books.
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It is not the best front light in the business. The nook is no competition to Amazon because they botched side loading. The issue is that Amazon did not cripple the Kindle's storage. Those that want to side load can and those that don't are still OK with the full available storage. In either case for the nook, you are getting less storage. eOub is a good thing. But if you want ePub without the divided memory, Kobo does a very nice job. As for the form factor, if I am not mistaken, I think it's a bit larger than the nook STR.
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And what are you telling them? Would you buy this device, even if it had no memory partition? Are you going to buy any ebooks from the B&N Store? If not, why should Barnes and Noble care what you think? If you are not a customer, then clearly this device was not designed with you in mind. To B&N, you don't matter.
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I have bought eBooks from B&N and I still do occasionally. I also own a nook STR so to B&N, I am one of their customers.
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Your relentless criticism and negativity are not helping. If you have no interest in buying or using this device, then why waste your time (and ours) continually tearing it down?
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I'm tearing down what I feel is a feature that's not a feature. It's a disaster. If B&N had not screwed with the storage, I would have been happy to tell people if they want a 6" 300DPI reader to have a look at the new nook. But I cannot in good conscience recommend this. There is a thread on MR and it seems a lot of people like to have as many eBooks on their device as they can fit and given that the nook may not even fit 100 eBooks, it's not for your average MR user.