My Barnes & Noble Nook Adventure - Part I
So, there’s me. Come Christmastime, I was still hard to buy for.
My husband caught a break this past holiday season, though, because while I’m hardly gadget-happy, (I resisted having a camera in my phone for as long as I could) I have been intrigued by the eReader revolution.
There are legitimate concerns over piracy and document integrity, but those essentially boil down to issues of people-being-jackasses, and I fear that if that sort of problem ever stops innovation, we’re all in trouble. It’s no small thing, to be sure, and I mean to stay vigilant. (I’m trying to recall if my vigilance has ever done anyone or anything a lick of good. Stand by.)
I’m piqued at the notion of books as impulse buys, bringing them current with other things that can be ours at the touch of a few buttons and a credit card on file. We seem to be all about the nifty and the cool. Stories have always been cool. I see no reason why reading can’t be. And while the price of electronic books is the subject of some debate, I’m hoping that I buy more books with less fear of throwing good money after bad prose.
I’ve heard warnings of not being able to read in the bathtub (that’s okay, I don’t bathe) and the demoralizing absence of “book smell” (also okay, I have a muddled sense of smell, anyway) but I’m willing to risk it.
To that end, my husband ordered the Barnes & Noble Nook on December 21st. B&N sold out of their initial manufacturing run and the reviews were decidedly mixed. A software update has since zapped all the Nooks out there and, by reports, seems to have addressed many of the issues. More updates are promised.
My Nook was slated to go out by February 1st, but I received my shipping notice this morning, so I should have it by this time tomorrow, Thursday at the latest. I approve of this effort to underpromise and overdeliver on at least the shipping. Beyond that, I’ll let you know…
PS - It’s okay, I shower.
AuthorScoop
January 19th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Okay, I understand all that. But why on earth did the B&N marketing committee (this must have been a committee decision) name their shiny, new object after a baby’s pacifier (the Nuk, for the infant-inexperienced)? Are you supposed to fantasize about sticking the thing in your mouth? It’s creepily Freudian.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
You silly. ‘Nook’ rhymes with ‘book’ and can also connote a neato little place to hunker down and read.
Now I really know you spend too much time with babies.
January 21st, 2010 at 5:24 pm
[...] My Barnes&Noble Nook Adventure – Part I [...]