"Unfortunately, com.nook.partner has stopped" Glowlight 3

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by hank

I've been getting the "Unfortunately com.nook.partner has stopped" popup more frequently lately, just got one at 10 AM. That's still happening after at least one software update a few weeks ago.

Also, curiously the Nook seems to bog down every evening around 11pm or midnight (Pacific time), usually requiring a restart.

Curioser and curioser.

Do you leave WiFi on? Maybe eleven is when it communicates with B&N?

[hank]

"Unfortunately, com.nook.partner has stopped" continues to annoy.

Three years. I wonder if BN has any programmers still working on Nook OS issues. Seems unlikely.

I just saw the Nook referred to somewhere as "the Betamax of e-readers"

Sigh.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by hank

"Unfortunately, com.nook.partner has stopped" continues to annoy.

Three years. I wonder if BN has any programmers still working on Nook OS issues. Seems unlikely.

I just saw the Nook referred to somewhere as "the Betamax of e-readers"

Sigh.

They released the Glowlight 4 and there's talk that another reader may be on the way soonish. Hopefully that is a sign of commitment to the Nook.

However, will they go back and patch the firmware on the Glowlight 3? Fingers crossed.

[hank]

Glowlight 4? Why didn't anybody tell me??

Oh. Because they screwed up the storage again, didn't they?

"The Nook has 29GB of available storage, although only 5GB is free for sideloading; the rest is for Nook books"
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/barnes...ok-glowlight-4

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by hank

Glowlight 4? Why didn't anybody tell me??

New Nook Glowlight 4?

The long and the short of it:

• 6" screen
• Similar design to the Glowlight 3 (page turn buttons on both sides)
• Smaller design (almost an inch shorter and a quarter of an inch narrower than the 3)
• Faster processor, so it's faster overall
• Eink Carta 1200 (I think it's the only 6" device using one so far?)
• Not waterproof
• Pretty much the same Nook firmware

[Renate]

Originally Posted by hank

Oh. Because they screwed up the storage again, didn't they?

Yes, they did the same as they have been doing.

I've explained in this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=344398 how you can put 28 GB of your (sideloaded) books on the Glow '21. Some have taken umbrage that any accommodation is necessary.

In any case, I think an Onyx Poke3 is a much better device unless you require on-device physical page turn keys.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Renate

I've explained in this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=344398 how you can put 28 GB of your (sideloaded) books on the Glow '21. Some have taken umbrage that any accommodation is necessary.

Yeah, I'm one of those. It's not that I don't appreciate your explaining how to use the extra storage. But B&N should really stop with the stupid, stupid partitioning.

[Renate]

I think the issue is that we are looking at this entirely differently. You're looking for the "extra" storage, I'm just looking for the storage. You're looking to get an elephant in the tiny employee's entrance. I'm saying, "I dunno, the truck bay is right over there and it's wide open."

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Renate

I think the issue is that we are looking at this entirely differently. You're looking for the "extra" storage, I'm just looking for the storage. You're looking to get an elephant in the tiny employee's entrance. I'm saying, "I dunno, the truck bay is right over there and it's wide open."

But alas, the allegorical truck bay isn't wide open. You have to do a bunch of steps outside the norm to get access to it.

Wide open would be: plug Nook into Calibre. Calibre sends books to wide open 32GB of storage.

[Renate]

Calibre is not the gold standard of computer connectivity.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Renate

Calibre is not the gold standard of computer connectivity.

But for sideloading ebooks to readers, it is.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Renate

Calibre is not the gold standard of computer connectivity.

Okay, I connect to a x86 Mac without calibre. The storage shown for the Nook is not even in the neighbourhood of 28GB. I connect a Kobo Sage and get shown a 28.3GB device with 18.2GB free, I connect a Kindle Paperwhite 4 and get shown a 27.3GB device with 15.1GB free and, lastly, I plug in a Clara HD and get shown a 118GB device with 86.3GB free (the Clara HD has a 128GB µSD card installed).

Similar results on a Windows computer. So I guess neither of those qualify as the "gold standard of computer connectivity" either.