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Originally Posted by Sirtel
If it was the only downside, it wouldn't be a particularly big deal. But there were many other faults in the previous Nook's software. Slowness, vanishing sideloaded books and shelves and so on. Add to that limited font options and you'll get a real dud.
Let's hope the other bugs have been fixed, at least.
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Not fixed it seems.
When I first got mine I connected it to my PC and copied over a few books by hand since Calibre hasn't put out a build with support yet. That worked just fine.
The next time I connected it to my PC there were maybe twenty 0 byte files with garbage names shown on the nook and the even the volume name was corrupted. This problem has been mentioned in the Glowlight 3 threads.
I ignored that and copied about 110 books over. This was fine. Transfers seemed quick too. But afterwards when the Nook was slowly loading cover images for the books it just sort of ... stopped loading covers after about 25 or so books. So that's another Glowlight 3 problem.
Part of the reason I wanted a 7.8in screen was for Manga (b&w comics). So I spent a few hours converting books with different settings while I figured out the correct size for images to not be scaled (it's 1312x1660 btw). No problems here. It opens 100mb epubs quickly and page turns are plenty fast too. Nice!
But eventually during all of the testing I reached a point where after ejecting the Nook the "Connected to PC" dialog box wouldn't go away. It wasn't locked up and you could connect it to a PC again but that box wouldn't go away. So I had to hold the power button for 10 sec (or whatever) to make it turn off. Apparently when you do that, the Nook removes all of your sideloaded books completely! So that's another Glowlight 3 problem carried over.
I did a factory reset and to get it working properly again. I didn't have to reinstall the initial software update that was available. And... actually everything's been fine since then. I loaded a ton of books at once and haven't had any more problems with covers or file system corruption or anything.
But every problem I had seemed to match the problems I can read about in this forum for the older Glowlight 3.