My experience with this device has been nothing but wonderful. The battery life is amazing once you tweak with the settings (ie, turning off wifi, adjusting screen brightness and duration or sleep mode...) the touchscreen can be less than hyper responsive at times but it doesn't get in the way of reading at all and wiping it off with my sleeve always gets it working again. I love that it can be updated without much effort and the library management system that barnes and noble uses is quite good.