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Originally Posted by rcentros
So you finally got one. I wouldn't mind seeing a short "review" about the Glowlight Plus. I'm curious to see what you think of it.
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Physically, the Glowlight Plus is great. Nooks since the ST have better hardware designs than their competitors. I didn't have an opinion of the white pebbled bezels when I saw it in the store, but it's very nice in the hand. The screen/light is fantastic. I had the problem with the capacitive Nook Home button that Barry mentioned a couple of times, but I bought a nice, slim Fintie case (
this one) that alleviated it.
In general, I think the Nook does a good job with the information displayed on the header and footer in book without eating up too much screen real estate. But the rest of the software is a mess.
Their biggest mistake was replacing the 'current read' button in the top left corner with a profile icon. That profile seems completely worthless. It used to be when I was three menus deep in the settings, you could hit that upper left corner and go back to your book. Now you have to hit the Home button to and get back to your book from there. And as mentioned, it's not like the profile adds any sort of value to the owner.
It's also slow as molasses when not in a book and I miss the job Kobo does on the library using imported Calibre details (like series and ease of creating collections).
I only read one book at a time and tend to know what I'm going to read next, so these losses aren't major. But that's me. I'd see this being a major turn off for some.