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If I recall correctly the glow light 3 had issues from the start with library books and at first BN claimed they wouldn’t be supported. They caved in eventually because this was a stupid idea and they finally saw it was going to affect their bottom line more than they originally thought.
I suspect part of the reason is that the GL3 got a (totally unnecessary) upgrade to the version of Android it was using. This upgrade allowed for profiles though I forget now if BN ever actually got that feature working on this model. However it also exceeded the version that played well with any Mac, and even on Windows I think you had to hope it loaded as a media device. The Mac work around was an additional program something like android file transfer which allowed for browsing and sending files though only through the app which was less than elegant.
Adobe was also getting tired of supporting android devices plugged in to the computer, which wasn’t a problem for most since the ones using a version of android Adobe didn’t want to support in that fashion were tablets which could run apps and had a browser.
None of that applied to the NGL3 though since it was eink BN didn’t give it any App Store access and the browser was only accessible through manipulation and wasn’t good for anything but amusement at how bad eink and the nook software and hardware were at handling it.
They should have just stayed on the older version of Android.
Of course I may be misremembering it’s hard keeping track of the glowlight line since I can never remember if BN counts the first two simple touch devices with glowlight in their numbering scheme. The one I’m thinking of was the one that had a metal plate on the back and an oddly textured front.
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