Nook Simple Touch News Today

Barnes and Noble recently announced that several Nook e-readers and tablets have reached the end of life and will no longer be able to connect to the bookstore

There is no dearth of digital photo frames featuring an E Ink display though here is one by Ben and shown on Hackaday that uses the display of an old B&N Nook

Barnes and Noble has announced that the NOOK reading app for the Microsoft Windows Store is discontinued. The listing has been removed and no new downloads are

Barnes and Noble have announced that they are suspending the service of older Nook e-readers. In April 2024, B&N will stop services for the Nook Simple Touch,

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E-Readers have been utilizing a front-lit display since the Sony Prs-700 in 2008. This technology primarily uses a series of white LED lights alongside the bottom of the bezel and project light evenly across the screen. Early products that used this tech was the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight and Kobo Glo, they had uneven lighting, that had dead areas on the screen, where the lights could not reach. As the technology has matured in the past 5 years, lighting has been more even and vendors hav...

I remember back in 2007 when Amazon announced their first Kindle E-Ink portable reader, I honestly couldn’t imagine how it could be useful. Why in the world would I abandon print books and stare at yet another screen? A couple years later, I sat next to a (rather talkative) passenger on a trip to Seattle. She had an Amazon Kindle–it was the first time I’d seen one in person. While I knew all about the device’s functionality, I couldn’t get over how appealing the E-Ink display appeared...

Amazon has dominated the e-reader industry for so long that most of its competitors have either become niche products or faded out of existence entirely. Id forgive you for thinking Kindles were the only e-readers sold in the United States, but not only is Barnes & Noble still around, but the company continues to release new Nook readers. And I bought one. The Nook lineup from Barnes & Noble had its best years in the early 2010s, when the company had more stores across the country to sell its w...

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