Locally, both Borders and ‘books-a-million’ have closed shop. Now I have to drive 15 minutes to get to a B&N. I would have no place to go to purchase books in person within a reasonable distance(driving in traffic) - And I’m only life 15 west of DC.
I purchased a Nook Color in early 2011, when it was on sale on B&N ebay site, for $200. I then “rooted” it, meaning I enabled all the functionality of a android tablet, instead of the locked down state it comes from B&N. It’s been a fantastic purchase, and I don’t see it being obsolete anytime soon, because of this.
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor/Rooting/Eclair
OK Mr Rooter Name me five features you “unlocked” that you use regularly.
Can you access Samba (http://www.samba.org/) shares from your rooted Nook?
I have my ebooks on a central (Linux) server and manage them from a Windows box using Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/). I’d like to be able to browse them via WiFi but currently plug in our Kindle & Nook to load books via USB.
I dislike walled-gardens on principal and certainly wouldn’t want to maintain two separate ones (AZN & EPUB).