My nook – the review

I have had my nook for almost 3 weeks and I am more in love with it than when I first ordered it! It is perfect for me, yes me, the individual who thought she could never give up holding a book in her hand and sniffing the spines!

I got the petal envelope case so that I don’t have a case attached to the nook while I am reading it. I wanted to be able to hold only the nook in my hands while reading, and this case does just that. It is sturdy and stiff for carrying in my purse and it looks really nice! Holding the nook is a little heavier than a Mass Market Paperback, but it fits in my hand so much better. One of my biggest raves about the nook is that I don’t have to hold open my place and/or push back the sides of the book. Of course, this would be the same with the Kindle or other e-reader but it rocks nonetheless!

The screen is easy on the eyes and the page buttons are in the perfect spot for my hand placement. The touch screen is receptive but it took awhile to reinforce that the main screen isn’t a touch screen. I kept trying to touch menu’s on the main screen the first few days! I have had the nook lock up on my a handful of times but not a large amount and nothing a power button shutdown and restart didn’t solve. I love the ease of purchasing books through the shop menu! I set up my e-book wish list on BN.com which I can access on the nook, so buying the books I want to read is extremely easy! Possibly too easy…it only takes about 10 seconds to buy a book which means my Credit Card is getting a good work out! I did figure out how to download e-books from my library and move them to the nook, which was extremely easy. I will be posting a separate post about that process soon.

After playing around with my nook, feeling how light it is and carrying around his 1000+ page copy of Stephen King’s newest release, Under the Dome, Brett has decided he wants a nook of his own. Hopefully this spring we will become a two nook household! I really love my nook and the reading experience I have with it. Yes, I miss the smell of books and the feel from time to time, but the benefits outweigh these drawbacks.