The eBook Reader Blog

Barnes and Noble is finally starting to roll out their expansion plans in the United Kingdom (better late than never). The Nook Touch and GlowLight Nook are both available for pre-order from several UK retailers, including Argos, Currys, Blackwell’s, and Foyles, among others. The Nook Touch sells for £79 and the GlowLight Nook sells for [...]

In the past I’ve posted about how hackers have figured out how to play videos on a Nook Touch and Kindle Touch, so this isn’t anything new exactly, but I’ve recently come across a couple of new videos and they are too strange to pass up. This time around we’ve got a couple of cartoons [...]

The Nook Touch can do a lot of strange unexpected things with various hacks and mods, like playing videos, but this one takes the cake. Just when you think you’ve seen everything, it turns out the Nook Touch can be turned into a Classic Macintosh. Yep. Flying toasters and all.

Barnes and Noble is a day late for the Sales and Deals article I posted yesterday, but this is worth mentioning so here it goes… Barnes and Noble is currently running two separate Nook promotions for record low prices on the Nook Touch and/or Nook Color. If you’ve been debating whether or not to buy [...]

Welcome to another edition of the Nook Glow hacking guide, where you can take a stock Nook Touch with GlowLight and easily turn it into a functioning E Ink tablet, complete with access to Google’s appstore for apps. Plus the Nook’s regular B&N features continue to work just the same, even the GlowLight. Earlier in [...]

I often look at my Nook Touch and now the Nook Glow and think about how something like a specially-designed Tupperware lid would be a perfect solution to keep the screen protected. For a long time I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with a lid for the Nook Touch but it just never [...]

In a followup to my initial Nook Touch with GlowLight review, this second part of the Nook Glow review focuses on battery life when using the GlowLight and includes some additional thoughts on the light in general and my final verdict after having used the device for a few weeks. Let’s start with the battery [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]