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Old 12-11-2009, 08:26 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by DaveNB View Post
Got mine the same day I shipped my trusty old Sony PRS-500 out for the free firmware upgrade.

Maybe it's because I'm coming from a really old Sony eBook reader, but the Nook seems fine to me, and I really like it's form factor/size and touch screen interface, the build is quite solid and it feels like a quality/well made product.

The touchscreen response can be sluggish at times, yet sometimes it's quite responsive. Had one hard crash this morning, the whole thing reset to factory defaults including losing the handful of ePubs, mp3 and screen saver/wallpaper images that I had loaded. That was strange.

I think/hope things will get better with a decent firmware update (which according to the guys at NookDevs.com should be coming this weekend according to one of the BN customer/tech support guys they had spoken with). There are also others who have posted that the "Formatting" delay upon starting to read a book (even upon opening the book after the 1st time) should also be addressed in an update. Fingers crossed.

As I said in a previous post, the Sony (and probably the Kindle as well) took a couple of firmware revisions before becoming totally stable/usable. That is the the risk you take adopting a completely new platform nowadays it seems. Not ideal, but I have been able to use the Nook for some reading already and it's really grown on me.

Dave
That vrash sounds to me like the nook is not yet ready. Crashing and losing your content is not a good reading experience at all. I did have my 505 crash when testing the beta for Calibre 6 and that was due to a faulty BMP to JPG conversion. The 505 did not lose my content, bookmarks, or last read page.

I would suggest people stay away from the nook until these serious crashes are fixed. As of now, my assessment that Sony Reader's are overall the most stable (for devices with ADE) still stands.
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