The second generation Nook from Barnes & Noble ditches the touchscreen LCD menu bar of the first model while adding touch sensitivity to the 6-inch E Ink display. This results in the e-reader having a substantially more compact footprint, and the 16 levels of grayscale offer fifty percent greater contrast than the original Nook. On Nov 7th, 2011 the Barnes & Noble relaunched the Simple Touch at a new price (down from $139.99) with software that improved both screen rendering and battery life.
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Status:
Available
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Availability date:
Jun. 10, 2011
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Price at launch:
$99.00
What You Need To Know
- Lighter, smaller physical design
- Touchscreen 16-grayscale E Ink display
- 50% more contrast than the original Nook
- Battery life of up to two months on a single charge
Verge Review
The new Nook from Barnes & Noble has this funny little trick: I keep on reading on it. In fact, despite my best efforts otherwise, I’m often reading the very book I planned on reading, or the book that I was reading moments before I tried to escape into some OS Wonderland that simply doesn’t exist here. Sometimes I wonder what else is going on in the world — but I’d have to set down the Nook and pick up another device to find out, so I just read the book instead. It’s kind of like… reading a...
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Basic Specs
| Screen size (diagonal) |
6 inches |
| Technology |
E Ink Pearl |
| Touchscreen type |
IR |
| File support |
ePUB, PDF |
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