I finally broke down and bought the Nook 2.

It is a great device and I only have two complaints.

1. The page turn buttons suck. They aren't completely awful but they are clearly inferior to the Nook 1 buttons. If you don't hit the sweet spot in the middle of the button they are mooshy and awkward and even hitting the sweet spot on them isn't an ideal press. I've actually started turning pages by touching the screen with my stylus instead of using those ass buttons.

2. I can't be the only one who refuses to touch the screen they read on. B&N should offer a stylus in the Nook accessories. I resent having to order a stylus separately from Amazon when B&N should have anticipated that design flaw.

I also don't love the new interface but I'm sure I will get used to it; nobody likes change.

My concern over the size of the device ended up not bothering me all that much though if I had the choice I would choose to have the words at Nook 1 height.

In the end it was worth the money for the increased battery life, not that I believe it will last as long as they claim.

 

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tell me something, because i have dropped my nook 1 enough in the last week to break it somewhat and now i'm afraid i have to upgrade, how the fk do you change font size and style? because in the store when i was playing with it, i could NOT figure that out. i felt retarded but i sat there going this feels like a right click situation but i don't know how one does that. menu button just sends me back to the nook screen. wataf.

 

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It took me 5-10 minutes to figure out how the hell you changed the font and now I have to turn it on to figure it out again.

While reading a book you have to press the middle of the screen (so as to not turn the page instead) and it brings up the 'right click' menu. You change font there.

I couldn't figure it out because touching the screen is such a foreign concept to me I never thought to even try it.

 

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i swear to god i pushed every part of the screen i could when i was playing with it. someone had set the font to the maximum size and i was like this is nice.. 4 words per page and all.. that was one of the main reasons i didn't upgrade.

 

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After some testing is appears that the entire middle third of the Nook works to bring it up. It is split in to three vertical sections: page back, menu, page forward.

The key is you have to be in a neutral reading a book state. You can't do it from any of the other menus. If you press the 'U' button first you can't bring up the right click menu.

 

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There is also a small upward pointing arrow on the screen that brings up that "right click" screen.

 

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