Had I been willing (and able) to purchase an e-book reader though, I'd have chosen Nook over Kindle. I especially like the "share" feature, where you can loan an e-book to someone for two weeks. Of course, I don't know anyone with a Nook, so I shall be neither a borrower nor a lender at the moment. The option is there though. There's almost 10,000 free titles to choose from as well, many of them classics like "Dracula" and "Little Women". There are many books available for free that I would like to read again but wouldn't necessarily want to purchase.
I did buy the three Steig Larsson books though, for a combined cost of less than that of buying any single one of them hardback. I'd wanted to read them, the library's wait-list was about ten years long, and I didn't want to actually buy them. This was a good compromise, and a good test of the reader.
I rather like it. You can contrl font type (to a limited degree), font size and brightness. I shelled out for a polarized screen overlay so you can read easily even in bright sun. And of course I purchased a cover for it. The cover has the following quote on it:
When I step into this library,
I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
- Marei de Sevigne
Considering the Nook is capable of holding a library's worth of books, the cover seemed apt. I named him "Orac" after the computer-with-attitude from "Blake's 7".
Orac