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I tried out three nooks in two different stores here in Maryland. Two of them were crap. One worked well. The one in Annapolis was slow in booting up, slow in navigation, slow in loading books, and slow in turning pages. My wife became very frustrated dealing with it; she is not super tech-savy, but she is used to the Kindle 1 and the Sony 700. Both of those devices performed circles around the nook. The devices I tried in Ellicott City were like night and day. One worked acceptably, even when taking notes (which I liked). The other was a true crap-gadget. It kept on giving me the force-close errors that I get from time to time on my G1. Even the touch-screen was laggy when I tried the cover-flow option. I've owned many ebook reading devices (many different Sonys, a Kindle 1, a Pocketbook 360, a Cybook Gen 3, and an Ebookwise) and I have not come across one as buggy as this. The closest match is the Sony 500, but that one would crash only if I fed it something really challenging. The Nook in Annapolis had this wierd dematerializing-rematerializing page flash, not the normal one you get with e-ink (it was also different from what you get on the Gen3 when you disabled page-flashing). I'm all for getting free cookies when I walk into B and N, but they have to seriously upgrade the firmware before I'll consider buying it. Has anybody figured out the processor speed? It's not possible that they skimped on the processor (i.e., it's less than the at least 400 mghz that seems to be standard on high-end e-ink devices these days), is it? I've noticed that the technical specs have not been released.
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