When I received the nook color from Santa last year, I wasn't sure that it was for me. I was the person who loved the feel, the smell, the look of an actual book. I was the anti-e-reader! Now, I couldn't live without it! I love that at night, if you can't sleep, you can set your font to night and it will be a black page with white letters, change the brightness, and it won't bother even the lightest sleeper. It has increased my reading ten-fold! I have always been a reader, but since the nook color, I can read anywhere, anytime. I can't say enough good things about it! Yes, you can even read it outdoors in bright sunlight, you just need to adjust the colors and brightness. The fact that you can play games and surf the net, kind of makes the laptop obsolete. I highly recommend it!