I give Kudos to Cnet, they did two reviews of the Nook. The first back when it came out and gave credit where it was due but displayed its bugs etc. But did point out that they were firmware fixable.
now since the the upgrades came along Cnet went back and reviewed it again.
It's very very fair.
http://reviews.cnet.com/e-book-reade...?tag=mncol;lst