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I also spent at least six months researching ereaders and nearly bought a nook a dozen times, but the price and sluggishness of the nook in the beginning kept me from buying in. I ended up getting a jetbook lite because for $99 I figured it would be a good entry reader to see if a dedicated reader was right for me. It was and the jetbook just fueled me more to get a nook.
My friend with a nook swapped ereaders with me for a week and after spending a couple of evenings getting used to it I ended up buying a Nook today. The thing that sold me was reading at night in bed with my lamp. The jetbook screen is fine in normal light or sunlight, but in a dark room with a lamp you really have to hit the reflective LCD just right and I was always changing the angle over and over. This was not an issue with eink. Looks great at any viewing angle and of course I'm enjoying all the other features of the Nook including a dictionary that actually has words I look up. I have a huge collection of stuff from Fictionwise and ereader.com over the years so the nook is perfect there and I really like it much more with the speedier page turning on 1.3. The $50 gift card was nice as well. They rang up the nook at $209 so it even saved me some sales tax. I'll probably sell the jetbook lite, but it did help me on the road to owning a nook.
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