why i decided to buy a nook

Thanks so much for all of your votes this week on my Father's Day gift!! You voted overwhelmingly for an eReader and I agree – I think that was the best choice and I was leaning towards that. I've spent the last week or two researching eReaders and today I finally made a decision and went to Best Buy and bought the Nook.

There were several reasons I chose the Nook over the other eReaders on the market:

• Besides having the biggest bookstore by far (from which you can download
  wirelessly for free), the Nook has the best access to all kinds of content.
• It
  can display the EPUB format (so you can read FREE titles from your public
  library and from Google)
  as well as PDFs, photos, and MP3 audio files.
• I loved the LCD touchscreen along
  the bottom because, frankly, I'm a sucker for a touchscreen.
• Not only can you borrow books from the library, but on the Nook you can loan books to friends – legally – which you can't do on the Kindle.
• The Nook has games as well, like chess and Sudoku.
• The Sony Reader is nice, but in order to get the wireless feature you  have to buy the top-of-the-line model.
• The Nook also lets you read the entire eBook library for free, as well as sending you special coupons and discounts, when you're in a Barnes and Noble store. Bonus! We love Barnes and Noble!

I gave it to my husband and he was really surprised! (REALLY surprised!!) I was so excited that I started telling him how awesome the Nook was and why I picked it and he told me that maybe I should go work at Best Buy We're still loading it up with books and playing with it, but so far its awesome!!! Husband is loving his new gadget (now I just have to sneak it away from him so I can give it a try!)

disclosure: i received a gift card from best buy to buy a fathers day gift for my husband. i was not compensated financially for this post.