[Nook HD, HD+ General] rushless:
For perspective, I have had a lot of tablets: The infamous Viewsonic Gtablet, HTC Flyer, Toshiba's first 10" tab, Toshiba Excite 10", A500 and now currently own the Excite 7.7, TF 300 and iPad 4.

I got the Nook HD+ 32GB due to the 2.1 update and the $200 price from Best Buy. The intent is perhaps to give the TF300 and KB to my wife ;)

+Likes

+Build.

+Display quality (it is almost as good as the iPad 4)

+Size.

+Speed: Contrary to some benchmarks, the Nook is in general faster in multi tasking than the TF300 and also is faster with FPSE and MAMEReloaded. Seems the chipset handles the higher res display better also than the TF700. Part of the problem with the Tegra 3 is the single channel design, where the 4470 has dual channel memory.

+Battery life is better than expected. About as good as my Excite 7.7, which is good.

+SD card speed seems good and nice to have (unlike the Nexus tablets).

+Not much bloat and 27GB free out of box. Pretty good.

+Nook is much faster updating apps than the Excite and TF300. Those tablets slow down when updating apps and likely due to the single channel memory

+Best sleep mode that does not bleed battery of any Android device I have owned- period. As close to iPad great as possible- for an Android device.

-Dislikes

-The rimmed bezel edge. Unlike the Excite and iPad, it seems exposed if dust or other fine debris were to get in the area. Update: Seems pretty tight around the bezel, so perhaps no problem. Update 2: A positive for the rim is the display is not flush to the bezel, so protected more if placed face down on a surface.

-Touch response is not as good as the Excite 7.7, TF300 or iPad 4. It is good, but I do notice a little difference compared with the other tablets.

-Though much better cable design than the Excite (the connector and cable is HUGE), it is still proprietary and hard to find one in a pinch. Like the Excite as well, it should have also been a standard USB design like the Nexus 7. What is the point of the special cable?

-Seems to barely be a trickle charge with USB charging. Net negative doing anything besides charging. Excite and TF300 are same.

-No side-loading of apps. I would like to install Flash and my N64 emulator, but can not. At least B&N allowed the market and Google apps :)

-Like the A500, there is concentrated heat in one section where the chipset is located. Gets very warm to hot with 3D games.

-No cameras (especially front for Skype).

-Wifi seems a little bit weaker than my other tablets, but seems fast. A positive perhaps for battery life.

In summary, this is a good tablet for $300 considering the display, build and speed and an AMAZING one for the $200 I paid at Best Buy (plus tax, of course). Sadly, this seems a Hail Mary from B&N and likely a last ditch effort to drive revenue and perhaps purge a lot of static inventory. They probably have a LOT of working capital tied up in the hardware and want to make their balance sheet look better ASAP. This seems the case considering they slashed the price for the week and have compromised the business model for their contained app ecosystem.

Perhaps though there may be some short-term partnering going on with Google, so you never know! :)

Whatever the case, GREAT tablet for the money- presuming you do not need cameras!