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Originally Posted by lionel47
Working on having fun. This experience has really made me think about whether I want to softroot this device. I'll use it for a month or so before deciding.  |
I'm same as you: "Hacking" into my devices without knowing what I'm actually doing always leaves some bad gut feelings.
But in this case, you really can relax.
I don't see any way at all, how one could brick the nook. In the very worst case you go back to firmware 1.0 and then make the official update to 1.2 again. And it's totally effortless.
Whether you even need softroot, is a different issue of course. In my opinion, the standard OS of nook is good enough to conveniently do what it's intended for: Reading.
But at least you should give it a try. Going back and forth (I've done this twice until I've finally decided to keep it softrooted because I wanted to exchange the SIM card so I can use 3G in Germany) takes less than 1 hour, including testdriving the applications.