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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I don't know. Look, Kobo's firmware is better. But I've found for the most part those niceties aren't as important as you'd think they would be.
And Nooks have better looking screens and better night lighting than Kobo. Plus the 7.8" Glowlight Plus has Bluetooth, a headphone jack, is waterproof and has page turn buttons on both sides, so no flipping needed.
I read on my Nook about as often as I read on my Kobo.
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I’ll still take Kobo based on software hands down.
I’ll grant the screen may be better but your claim of the nightmode lighting being better because it’s more orange still falls flat to me. You don’t need pure orange light for the theoretical benefit of red shift lighting you just need to reduce the blue light which kobo and nook do equally well.
The Bluetooth and headphone jack are from what I’ve read meaningless as the device doesn’t support audiobooks natively these bits of hardware only support BN podcasts (correct me if I’m wrong). Even if you do get audiobooks working the 8GB storage would be consumed rather quickly.
I’ll leave off about the side bezels as there are plenty of people in both camps on that front. However the top and bottom bezels are somewhat cartoonishly large. The top serving no real purpose as you can’t rotate the Nook and the bottom still being a bit overly large with how much you have to grip on the side.
Waterproofing at the price range is I think universal or close to it.
So at the end the Nook comes ahead with the screen but is essentially tied everywhere else for hardware and lags behind in software. I’m also not going to go into how easy it is to tweak a Kobo vs the Nook but it’s something for folks on this forum to bear in mind since they’ve already made it here and have the tools available.