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Originally Posted by fkm
Just saw that Barnes & Noble will be releasing the Nook with Glowlight shortly.
A built in lighting solution for reading in the dark or where lighting conditions are poor to me seems an an absolute killer feature for pretty much anyone who uses an ereader. Battery life is estimated to be around a month with the glowlight feature on.
I'd be tempted to order one of these but on the other hand, being a Kobo fan, would rather invest in a Kobo touch that has this cool functionality.
Though B&N claim some patency on some of the technology, I'm hoping Kobo releases something like this sooner than later!
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The technology is not unique to B&N, they have developed it in house apparently, but there are other companies out there that have similar solutions (Amazon actually bought one of them), so there is a possibility that Kobo has one in the works, just as Amazon is rumoured to have one. But I doubt we will know any time soon, these things are kept under wraps as much as possible. The nook was hinted at only 1 or 2 weeks ago, and the leak with the picture showing the glowlight feature came just the day before the announcement.