Instead, consumers have been more interested in tablets, which can do much more, including video, email, Facebook and games.īarnes & Noble's new e-reader, Nook GlowLight, is available in its retail stores and online starting Wednesday for $119, the same as the standard model of Inc.'s Kindle Paperwhite reader. The move comes as research firm IDC says the market for dedicated electronic-book readers is declining. The company said it isn't giving up on tablets, but it will focus on a new e-reader this year while continuing to sell last year's tablet models. Barnes & Noble had a slim 2 percent share of the worldwide tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2012, but fell off IDC's top 5 list this year. You can also set multiple bookmarks and highlight lines of text, just as with Kindle e-readers.Nook tablets haven't sold well amid intense competition with Apple's iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire and others. The actual reading experience isn't too different from Kindles, as there are plenty of options for changing the text font and formatting. There are also quick-access buttons for the store, the last book you read, and a search.
Once the initial setup process is over, you're greeted with the home screen, which shows items from your own library at the top and recommendations below that. I'm not sure what's worse, having no headphone jack, or having a jack you largely can't use. Barnes & Noble does sell audiobooks, but they're not accessible on the Nook, and you also can't sideload your own audio files.
There's also a headphone jack at the top, which is bizarrely only used for listening to B&N's podcasts. I don't have to plug in the Nook nearly as often as my phones or tablets, but it's long past time for everything to be Type-C. Even though the GlowLight 3 Plus was only released last year, it uses microUSB for charging. The port situation is a bit strange, though. Speaking of which, the backlight on the Plus can be changed to an amber color, which makes reading at night much more enjoyable. I can go forward and back while only holding one side of the Nook, and holding down the home button toggles the backlight - something that always required at least two taps on my Paperwhite. Even though they make the Nook look a bit dated compared to some of Amazon's readers, I've come to greatly appreciate the buttons. The GlowLight 3 Plus is a dark grey slab covered in soft-touch plastic with physical buttons for turning pages and returning home. 7.8" 300-dpi matte E-Ink, scratch and fingerprint-resistantĨ02.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, free network access at B&N and AT&T hotspotsĮPub, PDF, Adobe DRM ePub/PDF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMPīarnes and Noble has largely stuck to the same industrial design I remember from my Nook Simple Touch.
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