.....will let you read in the dark....the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight will cost $139 and be available in May....


Barnes & Noble’s new Nook is for reading in the dark

....If you are one of the 64 percent of people who read in bed, do you need a dedicated e-reader? Yes, says Barnes & Noble, so that you don’t disturb that special someone sleeping beside you.

The company’s newest Nook is the $139 Simple Touch with GlowLight (leaked Wednesday by The Digital Reader). It has a front-lit screen and it is aimed at the person who likes to stay up late reading while her partner snores beside her. B&N says the “number-one request from e-ink customers is the ability to read in the dark to avoid bothering a significant other.” (See more slightly hilarious statistics from Barnes & Noble’s “bedtime reading debate” survey below.)

Nook with GlowLight looks similar to the existing $99 Nook Simple Touch, until you turn the LED GlowLight on. Then you get “uniform light across an E Ink display, creating a better nighttime reading experience than LCD.” (The eBook Reader Blog explains a bit more about how this technology works.) The adjustable GlowLight is designed to behave more like a bedside lamp or sunlight and less like a computer, iPad or TV screen, so it shouldn’t affect users’ sleep patterns.

Specs At 6.95 ounces, Nook with GlowLight is a bit lighter than the 7.48-ounce original Nook Simple Touch. If the Nook with GlowLight has the light turned on continuously and Wi-Fi off, its battery life is supposed to be over a month. With GlowLight off, the battery life is over two months, the same as the original Nook SimpleTouch.

Availability Nook with GlowLight is available for pre-order today. It ships and will be available in stores in early May, in time for “moms, dads and grads.”

Competition Amazon may be working on its own front-lit Kindle; TechCrunch reported last week that “a new generation of glowing Kindles will be coming our way sometime this year.”

Barnes & Noble says the $139 for the Nook with GlowLight is a bargain. The device ships with a power adapter and “revolutionary built-in screen protector.” To get a similar experience from Amazon, B&N says, you’d need to buy the ad-free Kindle Touch ($139) and separately purchase a power adapter, reading light and screen protector......


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Very interesting. I like that battery life without the light seems to have doubled (now 2 months without light). If the battery isn't different, I wonder if a firmware update might wring some more battery life out of the old Simple Touch units.

I like the concept of an on demand integrated light, but I bought each of my two Simple Touches at less than half the retail price of the new model (in other words, two of the non lit models for the price of this new one).