Some Things I Don’t Like About the nook

I have one of the first generation nook e-readers. I like it, and when it dies I will be sad. It’s so much better for reading than most of these so-called e-readers available now, even current versions of the nook. But there are some things I don’t like about it.

There is no “go to furthest read point” anymore. I think there used to be. It’s gone now. So if I bookmark something and go back to it later, there’s no easy way to jump back to where I left off.

The text sizing and font choices are not as good as they could be. You’re supposed to be able to pick your font size and your font face. The problem is that some ebooks ignore those settings.

There’s a thing called “The Daily,” which is completely useless but could be really useful. When I go there, I see four things. Dave Barry’s essay on the nook, the instruction manual, something from the nook blog that is always terribly uninteresting, and a “this day is literature history” sort of thing. You cannot change any of this. You cannot subscribe to your own blogs. So… what’s the point of this?

Similarly, the two games available are pretty clumsy, and the web browser is worse than the text only browser lynx ever was. Can we get rid of these please?

I probably won’t see another firmware update. This version of the nook is probably unsupported now. But once upon a time, these were new features- built useless.