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Originally Posted by spec
What if B&N library organization sucks to the point people will be saying "I'm glad they didn't do that to My Documents"?  |
Ha! Good point.
Of course, I can't think of anything you could do to My Docs to make it suck
more 
. At the point, it can only get better.
If the "improved search" can be taken at face value as applying to the entire system (and not just the B&N library), that's probably good enough considering how much angst they've made users go through (seen the B&N forum lately?
) to get these dribbles of mercy.
Annotations/highlights are still broken, the PDF reader remains without a zoom function. I'm not gonna go into any networking stuff because I don't personally think that's a necessary part of an ereader. Being generous, an ereader should be able to find a book easily, display it as it was meant to be seen and allow you to annotate it in a meaningful way. It was 1/3 to this point - perhaps 1.5 will move it up to 2/3. I guess doing serious reading (with exportable annots) on the nook remains a dream for another update
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Originally Posted by geertm
I like the fact that unlike Amazon B&N has chosen to support books from other bookstores, and I cannot fault them for trying to promote their own bookstore.
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You're far more generous than I am
. I fault them for it constantly, primarily because I purchased a nook at full price - a price that was on par with other general purpose ereaders on the market not tied to any bookstore. They sold me an
ereader, not a B&N subsidized reader for B&N ebooks (like a freaking Apple product). They would be justified in this ham-handed approach to lock-in if they had heavily subsidized their ereader (sorta like cell phone companies subsidize their phones heavily and lock you into 2 year contracts).
If the My docs remain unsearchable after 1.5, I'll officially have lost my patience and it's softroot time (luckily my nook is pre-1003).