My old Barnes and Noble Nook

Recently I've received a few emails claiming that Barnes and
Noble is discontinuing my Nook e-book reader.

This is a present from my dearest friends in Italy, and I own it
since roughly 10 years.  As much as I appreciated the present, I
did not use it that much, mostly because it is good at displaying
EPUB files, as much as it is bad when it comes to PDFs.
Unfortunately, most of the e-books I could lay my hands on are in
PDF format.

The Nook has WiFi support, so it can be connected to the
Internet.  but last time I tried I was "gifted" with a free
e-book that I still can not get rid of.  This is offensive: it
basically remarks that I don't own my own goods.

I never connected my Nook to the Internet since.
I can load books in the same way as I would copy them over a USB
drive, so I don't feel the urge to upgrade it. That is why the
discontinuance is not bothering me.  I guess it is to late to
wonder if some upgrade might have unlocked a better PDF reader.

A few days ago I stumbled into the Standard EBooks project[1]
from which I downloaded a few EPUBs.  After long time I turned on
my Nook and loaded them.  I started to read "A Study in Scarlet",
by Arthur Conan Doyle, the story that marks the appearance of
Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

The reading turned out to be surprisingly pleasant, especially
when trying to put a baby to sleep.  It would be impossible to
turn the pages of a paper book!

Not being a native english speaker, I also have to look up some
terms from time to time.  I found out that my Nook ships an
English dictionary!  A feature I only discovered now, after years!

[1] https://standardebooks.org/