To be fair, I doubt they lied so much as they were just totally incompetent

Honestly though, if you just want it for the Internet access I'd get something else? Like, there must be a cheaper or similarly priced device that actually does what you want to use it for -- the Nook does the Internet okay, I think, for a book reader. But it's really best for reading books and I think it'd get pretty annoying if you used it for nothing but the Internet.