I have the Nook that came out before the HD and I love it! It is a little frustrating for me to try to use it for the internet, but I do use Pandora on it to listen to music. If you get a Nook, every Friday they offer a free book to download. Sometimes I get those- a few of them have been quite good. I have so many free books downloaded at this point, I haven't paid for a book yet! (I'm sure the Nook people wouldn't want to hear that- they want to sell books.) It is quite easy to download books though.