Thread: B&N to release NOOK GlowLight 3
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Old 11-19-2017, 08:33 PM   #358
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Originally Posted by javyn View Post
I don't quite understand the complaining over the side loading limit. This is a BN device, you should be happy they give you any space for side loading at all. This is still more open than an Amazon device since it reads epubs and you aren't stuck with mobi.
Don't be crazy now. I like the Nook and want it to succeed, but saying it's more open than the Kindle is just clearly not true. To Amazon's credit, the entire memory is open for sideloading. Barnes and Noble is the only ereader seller that partitions their memory like that and it really is aggravating.

If the memory wasn't partitioned, or even was just partitioned more sensibly (3.5 for them, 3 for me), I'd be buying two of them. Now I won't.

Since the Nook STwG was replaced with the Glowlight and it was limited to 512MB, I moved to Kobo. I've been buying my books from Amazon. I'd be happy to move back to B&N and the Glowlight 3 hardware won me over. But then the sideloading issue came up.

I don't want to purchase books I already own again because B&N decided to lock me out of all that memory. And though I understand I could load a lot of books on the .95GB left available, I currently have 2.5 worth on my Aura. Having to choose which books to leave off would be frustrating.

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I side load a lot of content, and the 1 gig isn't going to be a problem for me. Hell, having half of that on my ST was never a problem. The device just isn't going to keep up trying to index over a gig of books. Heh, when my friend stuck a 4 gig SD card full of books into his ST, the OS crapped itself. I ended up just using the SD card I bought for my Nook ST for something else, so lack of a microSD on the 3 doesn't mean anything to me either.
I used a 32GB card with 2.5GB of books and my Nook didn't have trouble.

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To me, it's an epub reader with a great rez and night screen. I wouldn't want to sideload my entire library of epubs onto it anyway, even if I could. Has the features I want for considerably less $$ than the Kobos, plus the nice fat bezel the Kobos lack. I'm very happy with it already.

edit: Also, I don't understand what kinda lunatic tries to read PDFs on an e-ink device. I use a full size, mid-range Samsung tablet for that.
You'll find no argument there. I'm tired of hearing about the bezel. You need to be able to hold the thing. If the screen isn't any smaller, what's wrong with a fat bezel?
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