I bought a Nook.

[elfs]

A Miracle of Science on a miracle of science!

Yes, that's my new Nook, and yes, that's ksleet's A Miracle of Science. It turned out to be completely trivial to tell Calibre to take my copy of MOS and stick it on the Nook.

Calibre has some problems, mostly thread-related lockups on my Linux platform. I was able to get Sigil running as well, and it converted The Journal Entries without a hiccough.

So far, so good. I haven't noticed any problems at all with the Nook as a general-purpose reading device. The brightness control ranges from acceptable to excessively bright.

The one thing that annoys me about the system is that the startup screen is "reserved" for stuff you buy from B&N; anything side loaded, like the hundreds of e-books I've bought in LIT or PDB format, the Plucker stuff Peter Watts & Charlie Stross have given out, and everything from Project Gutenberg, etc., won't show up there. The library utility is fine for keeping track, but it would be nice to be able to bookmark the "current reads" list on the startup screen.

Comments

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Excellent choice in reading! =D

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Root that sucker! (http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookColor)

[woggie.livejournal.com]

I haven't really had a chance to fiddle with the Wife's Kindle yet, so I don't know if it keeps downloaded content in a different place than stuff bought, but recently they added the ability to divvy up books into folders.

Given how long it went on with all books in a single area and no way of organizing them, I'm amazed the Kindle has been as successful as it's been!

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

Rooting a Nook Color is easy (http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting).