If you’re looking to purchase a new ereader for cheap, Barnes and Noble currently has the 6-inch Nook Glowlight 4e on sale for $99 with free shipping.
It’s available online from B&N’s website and at Barnes and Noble retail stores, and it’s also available for $99 from Amazon through BlueProton (the funny thing is they’re also Kobo’s official retail partner in the US).
The Nook Glowlight 4e normally sells for $119 so it’s $20 off during this sale. It’s B&N’s lower tier model behind the Glowlight 4, which sells for $149.
The Nook Glowlight 4e is the more basic trimmed-down model. It has a frontlight but not with adjustable color temperature, and the screen resolution is 212 ppi instead of the usual 300 ppi. It also doesn’t have as much storage space as the other Nook model, but with 8GB it still has plenty of room to hold thousands of books.
The Glowlight 4e is the most recent Nook that B&N has released. It first came out in December of 2021. It’s one of a few ebook readers available that still has physical page-turn buttons, with two on each side of the screen (they’re hard to see in the pictures).
It has a USB-C port for charging and sideloading files, and it also has WiFi, of course, to shop from B&N’s ebook store. Nooks support ebooks in EPUB format, including ebooks with Adobe DRM, and they support PDF files as well.
Nooks aren’t as popular as they once were because of all the questionable things that Barnes and Noble has done over the years, but some people really like Nook hardware with the page buttons and larger bezels that make them easier to hold. It’s also easy to remove DRM from Nook books now so that’s a plus too, especially as Amazon continues to make it more difficult with each passing day.
When did it become “easy” to remove B&N DRM? I stopped buying from them because it became impossible.
Me too. I stopped buying the day they took away the ability to download my content from their site. Fortunately, I had already removed DRM on all my purchases before that happened, so I still have access to reading my library on my Kobo device.
It is unlikely I will ever buy an ebook from Barnes & Noble again. I won’t say never, but definitely unlikely.
Apparently someone figured out how to get the key from the Nook Windows app quite a while ago, and it’s been built into the NoDRM plugin for over a year now. Here’s a post for reference. I haven’t tried it personally since I don’t buy ebooks from B&N but I’ve seen a number of people saying that it works.
That’s good to know. I know I got all my purchased books dealt with, but it’s possible I still have some freebies that I didn’t do that for, however, unlikely I’m that interested in those anyway. But I’ll check it out, and if there are any I didn’t get previously, I’ll get ’em now.
The 4e has perpetually been at that sale price. I guess it’s just a marketing thing to call it the “sale price.”
I’d suggest for folks to spring for the regular GlowLight 4. The warm lighting is worth it. The added bonus of more storage (for B&N purchases, there is some questionable partition stuff going on) is eh.
I still grab and use my GlowLight 4 over my Kobo Sage or Kindle Oasis. One thing that I can’t express enough is how wonderful the soft touch finish feels when holding the device. No cold metal like an Oasis. I also appreciate the buttons on the sides. People ridicule the size of the bezels on this thing but it’s really by design – I can now say that after reading countless books, it’s a cozy experience holding this thing for large amounts of time.
I am surprised you don’t have an article on the new nook coming out