Guys...Tell me the tale of the Nook Touch with Glowlight. Do you recommend?

[Bethany]

I'm looking for an ereader and I need help and recommendations!

[Sarah]

I personally don't have one, but I have a friend who does. I asked her how she likes it, and she adores the glowlight. Normally, she can't read in bed, as her husband couldn't fall asleep with the light on, but the glowlight is unobtrusive enough to let her read comfortably without keeping him awake.

The drawback to the glowlight is the battery power: with it on, the life of the nook is reduced, but not enough to make it a burden. None of the models have 3G anymore, so you have to connect to wifi to download.

From personal experience, I love my nook. I was considering switching to a Kindle recently, as they were much lighter and slimmer, but the nook with Glowlight rivals the Kindle for portability now. Really, the decision comes down to the Glowlight and which distributor you prefer, and these days I don't think the difference is very noticeable (re: Amazon vs. B&N).

[Tegan]

I've got one and I adore it. Technically the battery life is shorter than the one without the light, but it still lasts quite a while. I'm the kind of person to read hours each day, and the battery life numbers for most ereaders is based on a half hour per day. So I don't expect any ereader to last for a month or two. The battery life is also shorter if you have wifi on (as it is with any device), with wifi off I still get two weeks or so with the device (course I'm not using the light the whole time). I usually use the light at a pretty low setting because I don't need it at anything near the brighter settings.

I can say that B&N has better privacy than Amazon (to whom consumer privacy seems to be an utter joke).

If you're getting books from sources that aren't the main ereader store, it can be easier to make things work with a non-Amazon ereader. Also if you do library ebooks while there isn't wireless delivery of the library ebook for nook, all the books transfer to the nook the same way (whereas Amazon it depends on the publisher), you don't have to log into your B&N account to get the ebook to your nook, more library ebook platforms work with nook (a number of the library lending ebook platforms do not work with Kindles, and if they do it may only be the Fire), and Amazon only lets libraries lend ebooks that they sell in Kindle format.