As I tweeted the other day, I got to play with a nook at our local B&N. My experience was very similar to Carl's (believe it or now, we weren't together.) The most frustrating thing for me was the page turn time. The rest of the UI quirks, although annoying, I think I could live with them.

You see, even though Mary has a Kindle 2, this is the device I want. I already have at least 100 eReader.com books, which the nook will read. We don't really have that large of an overlap in libraries, anyway.

Well, it looks like good news is on it's way. Engadget is reporting that the nook is getting a performance boost this week, in the form of an update. Faster page turns, and reformatting. That's the one I need to see.

I wonder how good the staff our our local B&N will be about applying the update. Or maybe it will jsut happen automagically.

We were at our local brick and mortar Barnes and Noble yesterday. (remember those?) Over the Information desk in the center of the store they had a huge banner for the nook, with a December 14th sale date. Looks like they are getting pushed back. I was hoping to see one of the mock up displays, but I guess Pearland doesn't rate.