The New Nook Simple Touch vs. the Amazon Kindle 3 We have both ereaders in house, and put them through their paces for this 30 minute video comparison. We look at several key features in depth on each ...

The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight is the first e-reader to integrate built-in illumination, so you can read long into the night without a lamp or book light.

Barnes & Noble’s Simple Touch with GlowLight doesn’t have that problem. The LED light guide is inside the Nook’s bezel, at the top of the 600 by 800 pixel 6-inch display.