When we planned our trip we resigned ourselves to getting by without some of the perks of civilization (regular meals, hot showers, morning coffee or morning commute). There are however things on which I simply refuse to compromise.
Taking real books with us has been ruled out early on. Every couple of years when we decide to pack up and move, we end up giving away some of the books and then spending crazy amount of time and effort on packing the rest of them into boxes, moving them to a new place only to repeat the whole process when we move again. This time we swore to break the cycle.
Nook on the other hand lets me fall asleep rather easily. I got an Industriel cover, which folds behind for reading and provides good padding. Useful when the book, I mean the nook, falls on your head with a satisfying thump: strong enough to wake you just so that you can switch your night lamp off, soft enough not to hurl you back into full consciousness.
All these reviews that say that the nook disappears after couple of pages are absolutely true. So far the only problem was that sometimes I keep on pressing the next page button a bit too early, and the screen refreshes before I have a chance to read the last line. The habit of peeking ahead is quite hard to get rid of.
Many e-books at B&N store can be had at or below paperback cost. I moved onto the nook my epub collection mostly found on feedbooks.com. Calibre produces decent epub versions of newspapers and magazine websites but I could not really make myself read those. Linear page after page book reading works great. Navigating and jumping around not so much.
And since Nook is android powered, who knows what else it can be used for in the future. For now B&N just added a web browser too it, which is perfect if you like your internet slow and in a full glory of 16 shades of grey.
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