(Edit: 2/21/2010 - After enjoying my new Nook so much I was curious about the complaints I have read on Amazon. I just carefully read all of the negative reviews. There is so much mis-information in those posts you can only come to one conclusion. I would say most of these reviews are staged. Unfortunately fanboys of products love to use their anonymity of the Internet to drag down the competition. Before you beLIEve what you read here, go to a Barnes and Noble store and you can actually hold and use a demo unit. If you are still in doubt of the nook, simply vist the Kindle Boards forums, you can Google it. They have a board "Other eReaders" and read the positive raves about the nook from actual Kindle owners.)