I've had my Nook Color for a yr now and I love it. It does it all; read, email, games, organizer, pdf files, etc. There are so many free to low cost apps avail that I could never use them all. I love the vivid color it has and I can read in the daytime or in the dark. I get great support by just walking into the store. In the next week or so they are upgrading it so that it'll do the movies with Netflix like the tablet does. I'm going to check out the tablet to see if I should upgrade or not. I already have a 3G black and white one at home that no one uses so I don't want to have two of them. My grown daughter said she'd take the color one for games. That would be such a waste. The Ipads are so expensive and they have issues as well.