Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First let me start by saying this is not my first E-Reader. I had a Sony PRS-505 that I sold on E-Bay in anticipation of loving the Nook. It was great, a few years old and I loved the possibilities of the Nook. From the bullet list of its "features" it is the ultimate device, reality is much different. After the 1.1.1 patch was installed, a patch that promised great improvements, here are my observations: The Bad: 1. Battery life is grossly, I mean grossly overstated. They say 10 days in "Airplane mode", I'm going to be generous and say maybe, maybe two days-- if and only if you shorten the color display blank time, change pages by the button instead of swiping the touch screen, etc. as recommended for "hypermiling" the device. If you leave the wi-fi and wireless on and use the other default settings for blanking the display, the battery will deplete quickly enough that the battery display reads like an animation. It reminds me of an old 1968 four-barrel Cadillac Eldorado that gets 5 miles per gallon. You barely use it and it needs to be filled up again. 2. The color screen used for navigation has tiny selection buttons that will cause you often to choose the wrong menu item. Also, some features that would have been better on a button or multi-directional switch require that you wake up the color screen and use it for navigation. For example, scroll up and down. 3. The form factor was thick and clunky. Almost entirely made of plastic. 4. Buggy software crashed and misbehaved, OFTEN. 5. Free preview download of books often would not format correctly--- missing characters, centered text on one page, justified on another. Complete sentences cut off or missing, pages missing. Note: If you buy the book it would be formatted perfectly. 6. Touch screen comes on and wastes battery if you accidentally touch it while reading 7. Poster boy for frustration packaging. The Good: 1. The E-Ink display on my Nook was higher contrast than my Sony PRS-505 and Kindle readers I have seen. Having said that, they all use the same manufacturer and screen and the screens vary widely from even one unit to another of the same brand and model. You never know what you'll get til you fire one up. 2. The E-Pub format from Adobe rather than a proprietary format. 3. Elegant, clean look (design) 4. Lending option 5. 6 font sizes, two fonts 6. Clear, nice reading screen 7. Normal page numbers vs. Kindle's "Location" nonsense 8. Expandable via Micro SD 9. Changeable battery (You'll need it!!)