One of the best 7" eReaders is the Nook Color, and now the 7" Nook HD and the 10" HD+. The machines are cheap compared to many of the others. B&N is stopping production on the latest model, the HD+ and the price is down to $149.
I have been upgrading on my Nook Color eReader. It is now running "Jelly Bean" or Android 4.3, the latest upgrade of the of the Android operating system. This makes the Nook Color equivalent to the Nexus 3.
Rooting the Nook Color frees the machine from the restrictions placed on it by Barnes and Noble. Once rooted the Nook Color becomes a mini computer capable of almost anything a notebook computer can do. There is even a normal keyboard that connects via blue tooth if you need that.
Developers have given us two choices, root the Nook via the external memory card or root directly to the emmc or internal memory of the machine. If the latter method is used you should first back up the factory operating system in case you want to return to stock operation.
The new operating system is called Cyanogen. I have been using Cyanogen v7 (called CM7) for a year of two. Recently the project programmers have made available CM 10 and have moved that through 10.1 and now 10.2. Every night they post the version they have been working on that day. You can stay with a proven version or get right on the cutting edge and update your operating system with the "NIGHTLIES" that are posted. I try to stay back a few days. There may be bugs in the software but I've never found a significant bug.
One application still is not running properly on my machine. That is NETFLIX. When I first loaded CM10 NETFLIX would not load. After a week I upgraded to the latest NIGHTLY version and now NETFLIX loads and appears to run normally but when I start a movie the lower half of the screen is random colored bars. I expect they will fix that problem soon.
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