- Sep 22, 2010
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OK, this post is mostly tongue-in-cheek. I'm obviously a huge fan of the Nook, and want EVERYONE to root it and suck the marrow out of its Android bones (what a weird metaphor!). Seriously, I've posted several times that using it stock is only tapping a small percent of its potential, and rooting is pretty easy.
BUT: the other day on XDA, I got way up high on my soapbox and starting sermonizing to someone who was hesitant to root...something about "I'm happy with my stock Nook and I want to wait and see if B&N offers anything that improves it." Of course I launched into a holier-than-thou speech, which was greeted by several users who (justifiably) took me to task for it.
And I learned something. Something important, that I didn't know: rooting the NookColor apparently knocks out the 1-hour free browse in Barnes&Noble. Holy s***. For real?
Well, I researched it on XDA, and seemed to come away with some doubts: [Q] B&N in-store access when rooted? - xda-developers It looks like the "failure" rate is maybe 60% or 70%. Some rooted users seem to be OK, but most have lost the function. But it's an important consideration, and something we haven't talked about here yet.
Anyone tried it out yet? I'll give it a shot soon.
-Matt
BUT: the other day on XDA, I got way up high on my soapbox and starting sermonizing to someone who was hesitant to root...something about "I'm happy with my stock Nook and I want to wait and see if B&N offers anything that improves it." Of course I launched into a holier-than-thou speech, which was greeted by several users who (justifiably) took me to task for it.
And I learned something. Something important, that I didn't know: rooting the NookColor apparently knocks out the 1-hour free browse in Barnes&Noble. Holy s***. For real?
Well, I researched it on XDA, and seemed to come away with some doubts: [Q] B&N in-store access when rooted? - xda-developers It looks like the "failure" rate is maybe 60% or 70%. Some rooted users seem to be OK, but most have lost the function. But it's an important consideration, and something we haven't talked about here yet.
Anyone tried it out yet? I'll give it a shot soon.
-Matt
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