Pleasant Surprise

[Jack Tingle]

I gave up on the Nook some years ago after a bad experience with Jo Graham's "Chasing Fire"* and some other things, including poor performance and bad human factors. I sort of regretted it, since I was a big Fictionwise user and had a JetBook once upon a time, but B&N just couldn't keep up with other vendors.

I was mucking about on the Nexus 7 tonight and wondered if the Nook app was available on Android. It was. I think I still have a small credit from the Apple settlement. Sure enough, my old account still worked, and I discovered a lot of my old Fictionwise titles have been added to the modest library I'd accumulated on B&N. Glory be!

I was pleasantly surprised to see "The Winter Beach" and "New Celebrations" and a whole load of UK Leguin and Kage Baker titles, along with the usual questionable, small-press titles we read before Bezos finally made the market work the 2nd time.**

On a Nexus 7, the thing even works quickly. I'll have to explore a bit more. I'd commend any former users who abandoned Nook to give it another look.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

*To this day, my copy won't work properly. The text is eternally fixed in "tiny and unreadable" size. And yes, I've tried it on several devices.
** I got burned (in a tiny way) when Amazon abandoned its .lit store. Too bad, since MS Reader is still one of my favorite readers.