Anybody use the Nook Simple Touch? I like it!

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Only costing around $149, B&N had a two week return policy. Despite its shortcomings, I've been VERY happy with it and am looking forwards to increasing physical shelf space.

It's simple and does one thing great: reads ebooks
PROS:
- works best with novels and any documents with simple layouts
- reading its E-Ink screen reads just like paper, down to the light reflection. It's nothing like LCD screens.
- it's lasted me several months on a single charge (WIFI always turned off)
- i can carry 23 books (with a MicroSD, it can be 1000's)
* you can easily free up physical shelf space
- font size is adjustable (some PDF files won't allow it)

CONS:
- sporadically doesn't respond to finger movements on screen or flips 2 pages when you only meant 1
- doesn't work well with complex layouts: multiple columns, graphs, charts, photo insets, etc
- textbooks are definitely out (see above)
- mileage varies with non EPUB formats (PDF, DOC, HTML, etc)
- can't adjust font size with some PDF files
- USB connector can break after 5 months (never happened to me)

If you manage your Nook ebook selection using your B&N account, it may be possible for them to remotely delete your ebooks.
It's already happened on the Amazon Kindle with the 1984 book. Let's hope B&N doesn't try the same thing. I manage my Nook using Calibre E-book Manager and transfer books from my hard drive.

It's $99, not $149, and I do like it. I find it interesting that the default "power down" mode displays an image - no power is used unless the image is changed on the display. It's a really realistic ink look as well. Nice product, I look forward to the technology being further developed so it becomes a little more of a fluid user experience, but it serves the purpose of letting me read books as well as I could ever hope for.

Only 23 books (unless you buy extra storage)?

I had the kindle 2 until it broke, which was frustrating, nothing I did could have caused it. So my grandma bought me a kindle fire for my birthday. Amazon repaced the kindle 2 with the kindle touch for free and we gave that to my mom. I am on the same account as 5 other people so if they buy a book I get it for free. So I have about 350 books. My mom has almost that many since the kindle she has used to be mine, so it used to be on the same account.

Holy crap, I just read the fine print and of the 1GB available for book storage, 750MB is reserved for content purchased from B&N.

That's garbage. I bought two of these because I liked the screen, but now I can't recommend it to anyone. Regardless of a 2GB SanDisk being 0.98 at Amazon.com

It was 149 when I bought it from a B&N store.