Kindle Oasis vs Nook GlowLight
May 09, 2026 | Author: Dhaval Parekh
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This premium 7-inch Kindle features an ergonomic design with dedicated buttons for page turning. It offers a long battery life of up to 6 weeks. Removable cover is available in black, burgundy, or walnut. The high-resolution 300 ppi display offers crisp, laser-quality text and reads like real paper without glare, even in direct sunlight. Adjustable warm backlighting allows you to change the screen tone from white to amber. IPX8 water resistance. Page orientation automatically changes when you rotate the screen. The VoiceView screen reader, accessible via Bluetooth, provides voice feedback, allowing you to control the device and read books using text-to-speech.
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Nook Glowlight is B&N's flagship model. It's a basic 6" reader with 300-dpi touchscreen with built-in glare- scratch- and fingerprint-resistant lens provides a paper-like reading experience. As the name says, it features GlowLight illumination, powerful enough to read in bed or in the bright light of the sun. You can manually adjust the warmth of the light or set it to mimic the natural progression of the sun automatically. The device has a comfortable design. Soft-touch finish makes it easy to grip and comfortable to hold. It’s can work for weeks on a single charge and syncs with NOOK Reading App for iPhone and Android, so you can pick up a book right where you left off. The digital discovery feature (B&N Readouts) serves up a daily selection of free book excerpts, magazine articles, curated blogs, and more.
Kindle Oasis vs Nook GlowLight in our news:
2023. Nook firmware update adds useful FAQ and custom book sorting
Barnes & Noble has recently rolled out a new firmware update, version 8.13.160, which introduces a new FAQ system in the support section of the settings menu. This update addresses many of the questions and concerns that new users may have about the Nook brand, eliminating the need to use a computer or visit the Nook website online. Now, you can access this information directly on the e-reader. The Nook also features a new system for custom sorting of shelves, allowing users to reposition shelves or books within a shelf in their preferred order. Select the custom option from the sort-by menu to begin. Essentially, content and shelves now have arrow keys that can be used to adjust the layout. Finally, you can now sort and view all your notes and annotations made in ebooks directly from the search bar. This makes it convenient to look up notes you’ve just taken without having to open the book and find them manually.
2013. Barnes & Noble releases new ultra-light Nook GlowLight
Barnes & Noble released completely redesigned Nook GlowLight e-reader. It's an updated version of Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight and it's $10 more expensive ($119). Interesting, that $119 is the price of Kindle Paperwhite with ads (GlowLight does not have ads). The Nook GlowLight doubles the older model’s storage capacity from 2 GB to 4 GB, providing room for over 2,000 ebooks. That is also double the storage capacity of the Kindle Paperwhite. (On the other hand, the GlowLight lacks the microSD slot that the previous model had, so if you wanted to expand the device’s storage even more, you’re out of luck). Like the Paperwhite before it, Barnes & Nobles’ new e-reader features an updated 6-inch E-Ink display with 62% more pixels on the screen than the previous Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight; this improves text clarity and contrast. Barnes & Noble also improved the e-reader's LED-based light source to make light coverage more uniform over the page. While Amazon puts the light source just below the bottom edge of the screen, those on the GlowLight were clearly visibly from just above the top edge. Overall, I’d say the GlowLight screen looks quite good; the contrast and lighting is comparable to what you’d find on a Paperwhite. E-Ink e-readers clearly have a place in the tablet world, and while neither Barnes & Noble nor Amazon divulge its e-reader sales, it’s clear that both companies are fully committed to the category, and customers are still buying them.
