This review includes a video review of a rooted Nook Glow showing what operations can be performed and some different Android apps that can be installed, including Kindle, Kobo, Aldiko, Cool Reader, ezPDF, and others.

This review also includes some tips and tricks for getting started with a rooted Nook Glow, along with links to popular apps to install.

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I’ve been working on this website and blog for nearly three years now, and during that time I’ve noticed a weird phenomenon. Every month or two some unreliable source from some big-name website posts a ridiculous article proclaiming the release of some future gadget from Amazon, Apple, or any other big company.

And then every other tech website under the sun feels compelled to re-write the article and spread the baseless rumor over and over again. And then two months later some other website will pickup the same rumor, put a different spin on it, and then the rounds will start all over again.

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The Nook Touch with GlowLight has been out for a little over two weeks now. The first week a few developers that knew what they were doing were able to root their Nook Glow with a manual rooting method, but that is a little advanced for most people, including myself (Windows doesn’t make it easy).

Luckily there’s now a super-easy method for rooting the Nook Glow thanks to a package called TinyNoot that was put together by Roustabout over at XDA from tools the community has developed in the past year since the Nook Touch was released, including CWM, MinimalTouch, and Touchnooter.

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I was doing some research yesterday and came across a couple of new cheap Android 4.0 tablets, the Ematic eGlide Prima and the eGlide Pro III. Both tablets are similar yet different, and they sell for under $120, sometimes as low as $99.

Both have 7″ capacitive touchscreens and come with 4GB of memory, 5GB of cloud storage, a microSD card slot, accelerometer, Wi-Fi, and they come with the Kobo ereading app pre-installed for ebooks.

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Amazon has scored a major deal with J.K. Rowling that probably cost a truckload of Galleons to add all seven Harry Potter ebooks to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library starting on June 19th.

Basically what that means is any Kindle owner with an Amazon Prime membership will be able to download and read any Harry Potter ebook for free, up to one per month.

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As summer approaches, new tablets are starting to crop up all over the place. Toshiba has three new Android 4.0 tablets set for release. There’s a 7.7-inch model, a 10-inch model, and a giant one with a 13-inch display.

The first to hit retailer’s shelves is the 10-inch model, the Toshiba Excite 10. It is selling from Amazon for $449 and up. There are three versions with different memory configurations, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB.

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A while back I reviewed the Novo 7 Paladin, a cheap Android tablet from China that sells for around $100 on Amazon. Out of the box it came with Android 4.0.1 and included a watered-down version of the Android Market (not very many apps showed up).

As mentioned in the review, I found an official update for newer firmware for the Novo 7 Paladin for Android 4.0.3, but installing it made the Android Market disappear.

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Later this week Samsung is going to release a new 10-inch Android tablet, dubbed the Galaxy Tab 2, a somewhat confusing moniker to pair with their other new 7″ tablet also called the Galaxy Tab 2.

Both show a new direction for Samsung’s tablets. The focus seems to be mainly on lowering the price. The 7″ Galaxy Tab 2 is a downgrade from the previous model in some ways and the 10″ Galaxy Tab 2 has pretty much the exact same specs as last year’s model.

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A few people over at XDA have already managed to root the new Nook Touch with GlowLight. There are a couple of ongoing threads on the subject: Nook ST GlowLight – ready to root? and New Nook GL rooting. And there are detailed directions for manual rooting at Nookdevs.

The process is different than rooting the original Nook Simple Touch because the new Nook runs firmware 1.1.5 and the old runs 1.1.2, plus the GlowLight changes things of course.

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Earlier in the week I posted a review for a woodgrain DecalGirl skin for the Kindle Touch, and this time around I’ve got a review for a Tropical Moon skin from DecalGirl for the iPad 3.

The iPad 3 skin is a lot bigger than the Kindle skin. It was a little intimidating so I put off installing it for a couple days, but it actually went on easier than I’d expected. The back piece wasn’t a problem at all; the front piece took a little adjusting but it ended up turning out quite well.

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