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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I think it's more an annoyance that B&N has done it again.
The Nook ST had partitioned memory, but nobody cared because it also had an SD card for storage.
Then there was the Nook Glowlight: No more SD card and partitioned to 512MB for sideloading.
The (first) Glowlight Plus: No partitioning. Victory!
The Glowlight 3: Partitioned to 1GB of sideloading. Complaints ensued. B&N quickly pushed out an update to change the partitioning.
Now there's the 4. No mention of partitioning. Marketing touts 32GB of storage. Hey, guess what? Partitioning is back!
Even the soulless black hole that is Amazon doesn't do that. It's like B&N never learn a lesson.
Partitioning alone won't keep me from buying one. If it had waterproofing, I would already have one. |
The Glowlight Plus from 2019 was not partitioned either. So it's even stranger they have done it with the Glowlight 4.
Anyway, I've sold my Glowlight Plus and am not in the market for any Nooks until they improve their software considerably. I could live with the 5GB if there were other benefits compared to Kobo and Kindle, but there aren't. Android OS is not a benefit for me, I don't want to bother with installing alternative launchers and reading apps, especially as the buttons seem not to work with those. (Nooooo clickers, please.
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