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I like the Glowlight 3 but I don't care much for the Glowlight Plus. It's screen is good but there's a capacative Home button that I always seem to manage to touch while reading and it takes me out of the book into the Home screen. That has to be the dumbest idea in the history of technology. Every time it happens, and it happens more than a little bit, I get irritated and that gets me out of the mood for reading.
It's other problem, also a very dumb "feature" is that the dictionary definitions and the table of contents are in light grey text making them very difficult to read. The Glowlight 3, unfortunately, shares that problem.
The Glowlight Plus screen is about as good as a Kindle screen. It's feature set is good enough. If it wasn't for that Home button I'd have used it a lot more. As it is I've only used it occasionally. It's mostly for loaning books.
I did try covering the Home button but then there's no way to navigate.
The Glowlight 3 has easily the best screen of any ereader I've used. It has better contrast than any of the others. It also has page turn buttons, which I don't really care about since I'm used to swiping. The Home button is a real button again so that problem is gone and it's a pretty nice device.
I do most of my reading on Kindles because of the feature set and user interface and, of course, because of Amazon. I also have Kobos. I think the Glowlight 3, all in all, is my second choice after the Kindle. They're all good devices for reading, though.
Barry
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