Loving B&N's nook already...and I don't even have one!

Cross-posted at nookPoet, my new nook fan blog. Check it out at nookpoet.blogspot.com.

I think I've fallen in love...with Barnes & Noble's nook ereader device!










After getting the BN Desktop Ereader to work on Linux Ubuntu (see my entry at WineHQ to find out how), I was hooked. I looked around the web and compared it to the Amazon Kindle, and came up with a number of advantages.

• The nook has expandable storage with Micro-SD cards.
• BN publishes in epub, an open source format. This means nooks should read any epubs, and not stay limited to a proprietary format like the Kindle.
• You don't need 3G to download books. nooks can connect to your home wifi, which is especially nice where there is no 3G.
• nooks are easy to hack. With apps from nookDevs, your nook can do almost anything. Maybe even write... (One if my main motivations for getting a nook is to test it as a poetry reading and writing platform).
• Every Friday, BN releases a number of books as limited free downloads, with the selection changing each week. And they're actually books I would want to download (and already have!).
• With removable back shells, nooks are singable.
• You can lend ebooks to friends and strangers.
• You can borrow ebooks from libraries.

If I end up getting one soon I'll be sure to post about it here. If you have a nook, what do you love about it?