Anyone remember them old Nooks? [Rant]

[Lysander_Works]

Long story short, I tried to book up a Nook color I let sit for 5 years. But it doesn't connect to internet due to some software being out of date (and manufacturer having issued it end of life long ago); so, it's a brick. It's funny, I see a lot of them on sale through ebay too (can't imagine why), lol.

Been trying to make a setup where I can read stories at night to wind down and sleep, as I'm running out of shows to watch anyway. My phones are too small and my pc is, well, a pc. It's crazy to me that e-readers built for this kind of thing are planned for obsolescence. Looking to get a cheap tablet instead.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Long story short, I tried to book up a Nook color I let sit for 5 years. But it doesn't connect to internet due to some software being out of date (and manufacturer having issued it end of life long ago); so, it's a brick. It's funny, I see a lot of them on sale through ebay too (can't imagine why), lol.

Been trying to make a setup where I can read stories at night to wind down and sleep, as I'm running out of shows to watch anyway. My phones are too small and my pc is, well, a pc. It's crazy to me that e-readers built for this kind of thing are planned for obsolescence. Looking to get a cheap tablet instead.

Really? I mean, when I was a teenager, my older siblings put money together to gift me a Kobo reader (for my birthday). A while ago, my sister gave me her old Kindle, since she got herself a new one and I barely read eBooks, since I have, what? 600 to 700 Books left on my shelf, after sorting them out recently? But I do have a few eBooks and she knows, so she thought I could use it.
I checked, and my Kobo still works just fine. Didn't try connecting it to the internet though, because I used my computer to move the books onto it, I never used the internet on that thing. Kindle at least has a display with "light", so I can read in bad lighting, which is nice, but the old one is still doing just fine. And yes, I hadn't touched it since I moved into my current flat, so around 9 years?
Truth be told, I don't even know what a Nook is and what it can do, so maybe my Kobo was just too simple compared to it; again, I didn't need internet on it, couldn't do that much with the connection either way and buying and moving eBooks from one storage to the other is easily done on my PC.