Nook Simple Touch e-readers

The majority of Americans and Englishmen at a word combination "the electronic book" imagine Amаzon Kindle, however model NOOK Simple Touch of the American company Barnes&Noble also is popular, and both in America, and in Europe.

The device screen - touch E-ink Pearl, a diagonal of 6 inches. The case is executed from qualitative plastic with a pleasant covering soft-touch, preventing sliding. Pleases module Wi-fi and Internet browser presence. This device supports only PDF and EPUB, is not presented the Russian menu, text wrappings, and also downloading TTF fonts. The book can be bought through an e-commerce shop Barnes&Nobble in the price about 80 US dollars.

Despite obvious lacks, this device can be interesting for Russian-speaking users, but at its little unusual use. The majority of electronic books work under operating system LINUX and have the own software, the applications incompatible with other devices. NOOK Simple Touch works with operating system Android and after a updating of the device the special program (it is natural, with guarantee loss), access to desktop Android opens. Thus the electronic book turns into almost high-grade tablet with E-ink screen. After that on NOOK Simple Touch the program for reading of books Coolreader, supporting almost all text formats, text wrappings, folders on a flash card, and also many other Android-appendices and games are started. And they can be loaded and established directly from a network the Internet.

Recently there was a new model of the device NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight for sale. Outwardly it hasn't differences from Nook Simple Touch. Besides all characteristics of pregoing model, Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight it is supplied by light-emitting diode illumination of the screen for reading in the darkness. Brightness of illumination can be regulated from zero to a maximum. Consumption of energy by the device with illumination inclusion increases strongly. At the maximum brightness of the screen of the battery of the reader suffices approximately about 15 hours.

Short about characteristics:

Advantages of a design and equipment: The screen of last generation, the strong, thin beautiful case, the American quality and reliability.
Design and equipment flaws: Poor equipment. The cover is got separately.
Advantages of the software:Simplicity and reliability, fonts with a mode "smoothing", support Wi-Fi.
Software flaws: Few supported text formats (FB2 - does not read), Are not present supported Folders on a flash card. Incomplete russification - is not presented Russian carryings over. Are not presented downloading fonts.

Various variants of firmware: Reception ROOT of access on NOOK Simple Touch.

Selection of resources of the Internet about Nook Simple Touch is in section "Links."

The table of parametres.

Display and flash card Formats of files Fonts and bookshelf Complete set and functions

Model of e-reader	Display						Flash card
Model of e-reader	Diagonal	Type	Resolution	Contrast	Touchscreen	Backlight	SD	Micro SD
Barnes and Noble GlowLight Plus	6	E-ink Carta HD	1072 x 1448	15:1
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight	6	E-ink Pearl HD	758 x 1024	12:1
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight 3	6	E-ink Carta HD	1072 x 1448	15:1
Barnes and Noble NOOK Simple Touch	6	E-ink Pearl	600 x 800	10:1
Barnes and Noble NOOK with GlowLight	6	E-ink Pearl	600 x 800	10:1

Model of e-reader	Text formats
Model of e-reader	TXT	PDF	EPUB	MOBI	FB2	DJVU	HTML	ZIP
Barnes and Noble GlowLight Plus
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight 3
Barnes and Noble NOOK Simple Touch
Barnes and Noble NOOK with GlowLight

Model of e-reader	Font / text			Book shelf
Model of e-reader	TTF	Carryings	Footnotes	Folders on a SD-card	File names	Autors / book names	Book covers	File manager
Barnes and Noble GlowLight Plus
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight 3
Barnes and Noble NOOK Simple Touch
Barnes and Noble NOOK with GlowLight

Model of e-reader	Equipment			You can download			OS	WiFi	User manual
Model of e-reader	USB cable	Charger	Cover	Applications	Alt. Firmware	Dictionary	OS	WiFi	User manual
Barnes and Noble GlowLight Plus							Android
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight							Android
Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight 3							Android
Barnes and Noble NOOK Simple Touch							Android
Barnes and Noble NOOK with GlowLight							Android

What to read?

Stephen King "11.22.63". WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

What to read?

James M. Cain "Metro 2034". An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve...

Stephen King "Mr Mercedes". A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who's haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening...

To find these books, check out the "e-library".