There are a few ebook readers on sale this week.
Barnes and Noble has the Nook GlowLight Plus marked down to $99, a $30 savings. That’s a good price for a waterproof ereader with a 300 ppi E Ink screen and a frontlight.
But you can save even more by getting a refurbished Nook GlowLight Plus for $79 at Amazon.
The main difference is refurbished ones only come with a 90 day warranty and new ones come with a full year warranty.
The same cannot be said for refurbished Kindles—they come with the same 1-year warranty as new ones.
And Amazon has refurbished Kindle Paperwhites on sale again, this time for $84.99, and it’s the latest version.
That’s not quite as good as last month’s sale when they had them going for $79, but it’s still $35 off the price of a new one, and that’s about as cheap as it gets for a 300 ppi frontlit ereader, along with the Nook.
It’s kind of weird that Amazon has put refurbished Paperwhites on sale two months in a row now but the refurbished entry-level Kindle remains at $74, and that’s only $5 off the price of new ones so that doesn’t make much sense.
Bob says
Probably the Bluetooth is the reason? it’s the first Kindle Reader to have it.
That’s all I could think of…
BDR says
“good price” for a Nook with a limit of 500mb for sideloaded content??
Uh, no. When Kindle has 6x that storage and Kobo has 12x? It’s a terrible price.
Nathan says
That restriction doesn’t apply to the Nook GlowLight Plus. It has about 2.6 GB available for both Nook content and sideloaded content. You’re thinking of the older model.