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Originally Posted by pbennett
Sounds like you need to use it some more. I spent about thirty minutes with one in a B&N store and came away *very* unimpressed. It has some *serious* speed issues and some *serious* usability issues.
...As open as I tried to be about the Nook I came away thinking, wow, that thing is a real mess. The 3 B&N employees I talked to about it didn't seem real thrilled with it either.
Maybe after it's had some updates it might not be the total disaster that IMO it is now, but I think having to use the touchscreen for everything but prev/next page is actually a pretty serious hindrance. The additional hard 5-way navigation and back buttons [ignoring the keyboard - which I think is probably fine as virtual only] make a huge difference in usability.
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It may be that the in store demo models have already been abused and are no longer representative of the nook. I have played with a number of Sony ereader display models, and never have I found one that worked well. Given the love that a lot of members here have for their Sonys, I can only assume that those demo models were not representative either.