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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I’ll 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.
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Maybe I was unclear in my point:
When I say "Nook has always had superior hardware design to their competitors," 'competitors' would be similarly priced ereaders available for sale where Nooks are sold. So Kindles and Kobos.
To me, the Kobo Forma isn't a competitor to the basic Kindle anymore than a Porsche 911 is a competitor to a Ford Festiva.
At any rate, if my opinions on the hardware are subjective, there's this:
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
A clearer screen vs a foggier screen is objectively better, regardless of if people do or do not care about the DPI.
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The Glowlight 3 does have a better screen than the current Kindle Paperwhite or the Kobo Clara. Read any post from a Nook Glowlight 3 owner whether they love the device or hate it. The screen is nicer.
Incidentally, I'm not saying that Nooks should be doing better. I don't buy books from B&N because of their download difficulties. I also wish the firmware were improved. So I am not claiming that Nooks are the best readers out there.
But they do get some things right and I would like to see the 'new' B&N try to turn the ship around.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I don’t count Zods claim of a wider orange spectrum being objectively better in the same way I don’t count Kobo offering a wider array of screen sizes as objectively better..
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Why doesn't this count? If two devices do the same thing, like turn the screen orange, and one has a wider range than the other, it doesn't seem like a leap to say that one does the job better.
My Glowlight 3 can match every level of 'orangeness' that my Clara does. And when the Clara is maxed out, the Glowlight 3 is only at the 50% mark. Seems objective to me.
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I compared the Glowlight 3 to the Clara. It's tough because of the the natural difference in color to begin with. But at any rate, the max orange of the Clara is about the 75% mark of the Glowlight 3. When I tried to take comparison photos, you couldn't even see that the Clara (at max) was orange.