The Nook Glowlight Plus is currently available “renewed” for $149 with free shipping at Amazon, but is anybody even interested in buying Nooks anymore?
That’s the lowest price I’ve seen Barnes and Noble’s 7.8-inch Nook selling for since it was introduced in May 2019.
It’s being sold as “renewed”, which is Amazon’s new term for refurbished. Renewed items come with a 90-day Amazon renewed guarantee.
The regular retail price of the Nook Glowlight Plus is $199 so that’s 25% off the price of a new one.
Compared to other brands, $149 is as cheap as it gets for a 7.8-inch E Ink ereader.
If it was a 7.8-inch waterproof Kindle with page buttons and a warm frontlight at that price it would be out of stock in 5 minutes. But Nooks are a different story.
Barnes and Noble’s software is well behind Kindles and Kobos and Onyx’s ebook readers, but the Glowlight Plus has some nice hardware upgrades for the price. At $149 it’s the same price as the 6-inch Kindle Paperwhite without ads. That’s pretty surprising when you think about it, considering the Nook adds a larger 7.8-inch screen, page buttons on both sides, and a warm and cool frontlight instead of just a cool frontlight like the Paperwhite offers.
Of course Nooks have some quirks that Kindles do not. See my Nook Glowlight Plus review for more information about the device and to see a video review of it in action.
I would if I didn’t already have one!
At this point… The only thing I could transfer to is an Android ereader. Have got way too many Kindle titles.
The nook glowlight series all run Android.
Nook Glowlight Plus is a very good reader. NIce clear screen with side buttons. I have been reading on mine for 18 months or more with no “issues”. @ $149 it is a good deal.
Recently bought the Onyx Nova 2 to see what it was like as I wait for my Poke 2 to arrive from Hong Kong. I fully expected to return the 7.8 reader but I love it. I have Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Google play books on it and I love having my extensive libraries all on the one device. Granted – the apps aren’t perfect- Kobo app works better than Kindle and they have less ability to customize like the Oasis or Libra devices do but for me it is perfect. You can do the inverted screen with the warm colored light for night reading all without going thru the hoops you have to do on the Kobos. The Kobo app on the Nova 2 handles this better than the Kindle app. Using the black screen on the Kindle app makes the menus disappear. You have to poke around the screen to find the right icon to press to get the font menu to come up again. I really don’t think I will ever go back to a dedicated store reader again – not after experiencing the joy of having ALL of my books on one device without messing with conversions. I had the current Nook Glowlight and loved the size but put it away and haven’t touched it because of the slow performance. I don’t see Amazon ever bringing out a larger straight format ereader and I fear Kobo will stick with the asymmetrical design going forward also. The Nova 2 – in my mind – is a better deal than all of the Nooks, Kindles and Kobos out there.
Onyx’s ereaders are underrated; they’ve improved a lot over the past few years. The problem with Onyx is their prices are so much higher than everyone else. The Nova2 is $339 and it has the same exact screen as this $149 Nook! Not only that but the Nook is waterproof and it adds page buttons. But otherwise the Nova2 has much better specs.
If my Nook could have had Kindle and Kobo books added without going thru conversions I would have been okay with the Nook. I liked the design and page turn buttons but page turn buttons are not that important to me. Since I can fit all the different reader store books on one device -it was way worth putting out the extra money.
Barnes and Noble has completely lost me as a customer.
Every upgrade to the software wipes out my sideoaded books, the interface changes make it harder to access or even search your side loaded material.
I have been with B&N since the very first Nook. When one of the 2 finally died this year, I bought the wife a Kindle.
I bought the Glowlight Plus and returned it the day after I got my Oasis 3. The Nook’s hardware had converted me. I loved using the e-reader but I couldn’t put side loaded content into shelves and have it stay there after adding anything new to the device. That made it basically useless for school which is how I use my readers the most.
I wish Barnes and Nobel would read this.
I would have switched to BN for all my future ebook purchases. I loved both the GL3 and the GL Plus, but this bug or intentional FU to users has persisted for 3 years. I understand that you don’t make money from sideloaded content, but I also use my readers for book purchases as well. I spend hundreds of dollars a year on ebooks from Amazon. That money would have gone to BN if they’d just fix their software. I can’t imagine I am the only person who has decided to give up on Nook for this reason.