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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Also, why is this new product called the Glowlight 3?
Think about it, there was a Simple Touch with Glowlight (1).
Then the white-body NOOK Glowlight (2)
Then the NOOK Glowlight Plus (3)
And now the NOOK Glowlight 3 (er... 4?).
It's a glimpse into B&N's thinking about this product. It's the "3" because the NOOK Glowlight Plus DOESN'T COUNT. It wasn't a "real" NOOK. It doesn't have the classic shape, form, and texture of the Simple Touch, while the others do.
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The Simple Touch with Glowlight doesn't count in the numbering. As it was still the Nook Simple Touch. It is like this:
NOOK Glowlight (1)
NOOK Glowlight Plus (2)
NOOK Glowlight 3 (3)
Simple.
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The others all have the partitioned memory, too. The NST (w/o memory card) had about 250M, the whitey-lighty went about 500M, and now the Trey roughly 1000M. See the pattern? It doubles with each iteration. Ol' B&N probably feels like that's plenty.
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I think too much hay is made about the partitioned memory on the Simple Touch. With a micro SD card, who cares about partitioned memory? Honestly, if all the Nooks had micro SD card slots, they could all have 100% partitioned memory and I'd buy regardless.
It was only with the Glowlight where they removed the SD card and only allowed 512MB that they fell down. They learned a lesson with the Plus and now it looks like they promptly forgot it.
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FOR THE PRICE it's a pretty nice reader. And B&N has to keep the price down to get the walk-in customers to bite. But, let's be fair. Lots of people wanted the page turn buttons, and they came back.
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I think regardless of the price it is a very nice reader. I just wish B&N weren't so stupid about the partitioned memory.