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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
As for how far back I go, I worked at B&N when the first Nook rolled out and my first reader was the Nook ST with Glowlight. Nook has always had superior hardware design to their competitors.
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I知 sorry but this isn稚 true. There was a significant lag for Nook to adopt the 300dpi screen which was old hat by the time they did in (I think) the glowlight plus. It was the Nook with the white textured bezel. Both Amazon and Kobo has at least one if not two lines of readers out with 300dpi by this time. BN was also very late to add water resistance (I won稚 say water proof because even the Kobo H2O was never really water proof). They were late to add the orange LEDS (I知 not going to get into who does it better now since honestly it痴 going to be subjective). The glowlight plus had that awful capacitive touch home button which many people complained about and few if any praised.
Again I知 trying to stay with objective issues here. So I知 not touching things like the layout of the various readers, the size of the bezels, if they have buttons (exception for when the button is specifically called out as causing issues) to name a few. Yes I知 comparing different generations of devices against each other but BN opted not to release new hardware with those features. I知 even ignoring the larger screens offered by Kobo because size of the screen is a subjective quality. The other features mentioned have largely become standard now.
I値l give that Nook were the first major brand to have the light at all. And that early on they outpaced Amazon or at least kept up. Kobo was outdistanced at this time with their clunkier design. But Nook has wavered and fallen behind at points. The glowlight 3 might be better hardware though from memory most if not all your praise of the hardware would fall into the subjective category.