NOOK Color vs Nook GlowLight
May 09, 2026
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Ultra-responsive 7-inch multi-touch screen displays 16 million colors ultra-bright. Specially designed for remarkable clarity and minimal glare so you can enjoy the ultimate reading and entertainment experience. Discontinued.
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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.
NOOK Color vs Nook GlowLight in our news:
2017. Barnes and Noble released Nook Glowlight 3
Barnes and Noble has just released their first new e-reader in two years and it is called the Nook Glowlight 3. This device has a number of innovative features such as the page turn buttons that can skip ahead a chapter with a double tap or rapidly turn the pages of an e-book by holding it down. It also the first Nook to incorporate a comfortlight system that mutes the white screen and turns it orange. Nook Glowlight 3 is running Google Android, similar to all of their other e-readers. It has a very advanced front-lit display system. One of the best elements on the new Nook are the physical buttons. There are two page turn buttons on both the left and right hand side. The main Nook Reading app is well designed and page turn speed is super quick and Copy/Paste text into the note app is innovative.
2010. Barnes & Noble Nook Color revealed
Barnes & Noble has introduced its new Nook Color, an Android tablet featuring a 7-inch color touchscreen... goodbye, e-ink! (The original Nook, priced at $149, will remain available for now, holding 20 percent of the e-reader market and set for a significant software update). B&N is marketing it as a blend of e-reader and tablet, enhancing its software with a full tablet-style interface and integrating Facebook and Twitter. It includes built-in WiFi (802.11b/g/n) and 8GB of storage, though it lacks 3G connectivity at this time. Fortunately, the price remains competitive: $249. You might expect the screen to be subpar, but B&N has managed to incorporate an impressive "VividView," 16 million color, 1024 x 600 IPS display. Notably, there's a "full lamination screen film" over the LCD to minimize glare, which is attributed to the backlight, not just external light sources.
