Last Updated on April 17, 2017 by Dave Farquhar
Sears has the Nook Simple Touch on sale for $70. That’s about a 30% discount. (Thanks Dealnews!)
I guess I’ve had mine for about six weeks, and I like it. It’s the #2 e-reader, and I’ve run into problems in the past buying the #2 just on the basis of technical superiority (Amiga, anyone?), but if being able to load books on an SD card and the availability of free public domain e-books isn’t enough, you can root the device, load the Kindle Android app, and turn it into a Kindle.
So, even though Barnes & Noble definitely has something in the works, and B&N faces an uphill battle against the Amazon juggernaut, at 30% off I think the Nook Simple Touch is a worthwhile buy. I picked up a couple for gifts.
And if I’m stuck for gift ideas again next year, I can load up 32 GB microSD cards with free e-books to get out of that bind–once.
And as much as it pains me to say it, a Nook Simple Touch with a few gigabytes’ worth of e-books on an SD card will be more useful in 20 years than my Amiga is today. If I snarfed down the entirety of Manybooks.net today, I probably would still have things to read come 2032.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.