![]() There are three options for margins and three options for line spacing, but no option for justification (the Nook iOS app has this). The ebooks don’t display consistently, but they are close enough that I am fine with it – if only they were easier to find and load. As a result, the ten or fifteen ebooks I want to read are lost in a cloud of ebooks that I have no interest in.Īnd that’s a shame because I do want to read on the Glowlight Plus. It’s not just that the software lacks basic and obvious features like only showing the ebooks on the device, but also that simple acts like downloading an ebook doesn’t move said ebook to the front of the library. I have around 450 ebooks in the Nook system, and that’s a problem for B&N because it’s made me aware of just how horrible the library management is on the Nook Glowlight Plus. In fact, Barnes & Noble is the one and only ebook platform where I have a huge native library thanks to my Fictionwise purchases having been migrated to the Nook platform. I have been buying ebooks for long enough that I have far more ebooks that have been set free of any platform than I do in any single platform. When it comes to ebooks, I am not your average reader. It makes up for the gold-colored shell, which I don’t like (I find bare metal unappealing) and it’s a trick I would like to see copied on other ereaders. The cream-colored bezel, when combined with a frontlight set to 50%, give me the feeling that I’m looking at the yellowed page of an old book. This might not appeal to you, but I love it. Where the Kindle and other ereaders have a black shell which is intended to emphasize the white on the E-ink screen, the Plus has a cream-colored bezel which was chosen for the subtle effect it has on the E-ink screen. The Plus has the same screen resolution as the new Kindle Paperwhite, the Kobo Glo HD, and the Kindle Voyage, so you would think that (after allowing for software differences) the Plus would have about the same reading experience as the other ereaders.īut it doesn’t, and we can attribute the difference to the Plus’s unique design. The 6″ screen sports a resolution of 1448 x 1072 with frontlight and touchscreen.Weighing in at 195 grams, the Glowlight Plus is certified to meet the IP67 standard for water and dust proofing.Īll those specs could be found in the fact sheet ( PDF) or in my post on hacking the Plus, but here’s a detail that you could only see first-hand. It runs Android 4.4 on a 1GHz Freescale i.MX6 CPU with 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage (3.1GB available to the user), and Wifi. With a gold colored metal rear shell and a cream-colored bezel, the Glowlight Plus doesn’t look like your average ereader (which is usually available in your choice of black, black, or black). but honest to goodness I seriously considered keeping my Glowlight Plus. I know that the above sounds like damning with faint praise. If managing my Nook library on the device weren’t such a pain in the ass, I would keep it.If it belonged to anyone other than B&N, a company which we don’t know will be in ebooks this time next year, I would keep it. ![]() In spite of everything, I like this ereader.As I sit here, getting ready to box it up and take it back, I thought I would bang on the keyboard for a few minutes and express my opinion. It’s been just over a week since Barnes & Noble released their latest (and probably final) ereader, the Nook Glowlight Plus. ![]()
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