If you aren't near a Barnes & Noble location, you might want to look into their return policy, or call and ask for purchasing guidance. They might allow you to try it out and send it back if it doesn't function as needed.

I'm very happy with Nook in general. I, myself, have always been fine with just the Simple Touch, since I also have a smart phone and a netbook, but ever since my dude got the tablet, I've been thinking about how nice it would be to have one for reading magazines, web comics, and other things in color. You could think of it not as another gadget, but as another bookshelf of sorts. One simply cannot have too many bookshelves.