Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch eBook Reader (Wi-Fi Only)

I purchased this device new through Amazon Marketplace from JJ's RealBuy. It's perfect. Exactly what I wanted, an e-reader only, simple to use, sharp paper style screen, reasonably priced and with an expandable memory. If this is what you're looking for as well, go for it. You can manage the Nook using the free library management program Calibre, adding and deleting books from the Nook without having to log on to Barnes & Noble with the device. You can also get a ton of legally free books from Project Gutenberg, organize them in Calibre, and transfer them over to your Nook. The built in memory space on the Nook is only 250 MB for books not purchased through Barnes & Noble. The rest of the built in memory is reserved for the OS and your B&N purchases. But who cares, since this Nook has a Micro SD card slot for up to 32 GB of additional space! I just went ahead and bought a 32 GB card at the same time I ordered the Nook. I now have space for thousands of books! This does not have the built in reading light, but I didn't need that, and the newer Glo Light models don't have the expandable memory. I've also read that the battery drains faster on the Glo Light. If you like to listen to audible books, you can't do that on this Nook. Personally, I don't listen to audible books, so it's not a drawback for me. But if at some point in the future I did want to do that, I would just use my phone.

I found tablets and phones lack the battery life and quiet simplicity of this type of specialised product. Forget checking email, listening to audio or constant distractions. This ereader is purely a reading machine. The text is clearer than a laser printed page and the capacity of 32GB micro SD card means accessibility to 10,000's of books. As with my Samsung table I found PDF viewings unsatisfactory and even maps in epubs were a disappointment. Another issue is that, without a US credit card billing address, B&N will not let you use your account so I have had to store by own epubs in the machine and find them elsewhere. The unit is easy to operate and had a claimed battery life of up to two months. It is easily charged from a micro USB connection and files can easily be copied from a PC. The crystal clear text and easy touch or button navigation make reading a pleasure. There is only a minuscule delay when turning pages. All in all I am delighted by the unit which is good value for something that holds practically my entire library.

I'm the kind of guy that wants something to function well and that's it. This thing is brilliant at what it does: displays ebooks. No frills, no apps, no video, no nonsense. Because of this it makes it very easy to use. Download Calibre for free and this baby syncs right up with it. Battery lasts forever, and it has the same charger as most android smart phones, so In the mornings I take my smartphone off its charger and replace it with my little nook. I am in the military and as someone else said, this fits perfect in the side cargo pocket of my ABU's. I had the Kobo, which was a great reader, and my wife had the last nook which I didn't like because it was so damn heavy. I bought this for me so I could give my Kobo to my little girl. I was able to snag one used on here from a seller named NikonLover for $47! This thing is really great. The only complaint I can make is that the page buttons are a little too recessed, but this is not a huge issue as I turn the pages mostly via touchscreen anyways. Using this little beauty, and loading all of my own books, and PDF's that I have converted via Calibre, makes me beg the question: Why are people still buying Kindles? I guess that is the same dilemma I have with Iphones. Oh well, a fool and his money.... Buy this now! You will not regret it!

nook is a good ereader and sony is also a good ereader and i would recommend both to my friends, depending on their needs/wants. SIDELOAD= downloading a ebook from your computer hard drive to your ereader, weather sony or nook. this is done through the usb cable that plugs into the side of your ereader and also recharges the battery of your ereader, while you sideload or just for recharging. all ebooks should be backed up on computer hard drive first because there is no retrieving an ebook from a ereader . Dont move an ebook, instead copy the ebook on the ereader & retain the original download on computer hard drive because you might want to read it again in 10 years. MY NOOK i like MY nook because it is light wieght and the batteries last 1 month between recharges and it holds 500 books and has a slot to accept up to 32 gb flash drive memory, just in case i want my nook to hold 1000 books, and nook has a really bright white screen ,like expensive ink jet paper. If you leave wi fi "on",nook battery only last 2 weeks between recharge, with wi fi off ,battery last 4 weeks. My sony prs 300 ereader screen looks kinda grayish in compairson to nook, but only when they are side by side,my sony ereader screen looks just fine by itself . My sony ereader -prs 300- is less than 1/2 price of nook, but has no wi-fi & only holds 9 books but allows you to delete books one at a time or 4 at once, so you always can make room for 3 or 4 new books. sony's battery needs recharge thru usb cord every 2 weeks. but the sony can change from portriat to landscape orentation, so i can hold my sony ereader sideways, when i read in bed,on my back with the ereader held up over my head. My nook cant do this. sony prs300 works with .epub & .pdf & sony reader software that you download onto your computer. the email address for sony reader is inside sony ereader. sony reader for your computer is a epub & pdf reader 4 your computer that lets you download free internet books and copy them to the sony reader library ,where you can read the ebook on your computer and also sideload a copy of the ebook,through the ubs2 cable into your sony ereader - prs300 the sony reader reconizes the sony ereader-prs 300 and allows sideloads. nook wieghts 6 oz and sony wieghts 8 oz, so not much difference in wieght. And nook has wi - fi ,in-case i want to pay $12.00 for a book instead of downloading the book for free on to my computer. There might just be a situation where i cant get to my computer to get a free book and i was so bored that i was willing to pay for a wi-fi book, but i dont think so. the filthy rich would like the wi fi 12.99 book ,though. I thought that the nook touch screen would be cool , but it is kind of a pain the the butt because the nook changes pages when ever your finger gets even close to the screen, weather you want to change pages or not. ' So,you spend 30 % of you time ,just trying to find the page you were just on, 2 seconds ago. But,after a while,you get used to this and its not really an issue, even though it continues to occur. It's the price you pay for a touch screen. the nook works with .epub and .pfd books and adobe digital editions. You should download adobe digital editions from downloads/cnet.com for free onto your computer and then download free internet books into your computer file that the internet puts them in and copy the file into adobe digital editions library. adobe lets you look at/read-- the book on your computer and see if you want to sideload it into your nook. adobe digital editions will recon-nize your nook when you plug in the usb cord and has a drop down menu button that says copy ebook to nook. SIDELOAD means plug usb2 cable that comes with nook into computer and into nook. this cable recharges the nook battery and at the same time allows you to download .epub and .pdf ebooks & files into you nook. WHAT I REALLY HATE ABOUT THE NOOK is you cant delete just 1 book or just 20 books, you have no choice,you must delete all the books on the nook. Because of this,backup on to your computer any book you download into nook, as you cant retrieve anything from nook. You must delete every thing all at once and start from empty all over again. A very bad feature nook should change as soon as possible. The saving grace is the large 500 book capacity of the nook and the slot to install a 32 gb flash drive memory stick so that nook can hold 1000 books. You wont have to delete it all and start over for a long time . nook requires you go to barnes & noble to open an account & register the nook before nook will work. The B&N salespeople will do it 4 you, or you can do it yourself,if you like to read & follow instructions. When you delete nook , you have to reregister nook at barnes & noble all over again. most people will be out of range of B&N wi-fi ,so you wont be able to register nook without a trip to B&N to get in range of the wi fi.