“But [my Mom] was having none of this ridiculous stalling. She had her mind made up, and there was no standing in her way. She ordered, and took delivery of her Nook a few weeks back,” ChrissyOne writes. “And that’s when the trouble began.”
“At first, all was well. The Nook had a few books pre-installed, and they were… accessible. But the actual book-reading experience wasn’t particularly great. Pages load GLACIALLY slowly. They scroll down choppily from the top with lots of ugly artifacts,” ChrissyOne reports. “Actually getting to the book and generally navigating the UI caused this reporter to keep trying to touch the main screen (blame my iPhone indoctrination for that) but the buttons and lower screen never quite gelled for me as an interface. I’m sure with more than an hour of use it would be fine, but this device wasn’t mine. Watching my mother navigate the system, it seems it never gelled for her either.”
ChrissyOne reports, “Then there was the battery.”
I asked if the Nook was getting the fantastically long battery life as the promotional copy claimed. Could you really use it for 10 days? “No,” she said. “It doesn’t last that long.”
Well, how much life do you get out of a charge?
“About 3 hours.”
Uh. What?
The full sordid story, which gets much worse, is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "ChrissyOne" for the heads up.]
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