These buttons are similar to the ones that were the central navigation mode on Nook First Edition, but they’ve been refreshed and updated to reflect the new Nook’s interface, and bring it in line with the Nook Color/Reader’s Tablet. Here, the “n” starts the display’s wake-up process (as with cell phones, you also have to slide your finger along the screen to wake it fully), and returns you to the quick navigation buttons on-screen. As on the Nook Color/Reader’s Tablet, the main home button is a lowercase “n” beneath the screen. Now that the Nook has a touchscreen, most navigation will be done on the display, not via the buttons. The backplate cover dips in those millimeters effectively give the Nook a built-in grip to make it even easier to hold. The physical shape of Nook is pleasing in-hand, too: The e-reader’s front and back both have a textured rubber finish, much like you’ll find on a cell phone. It’s remarkably well-balanced to hold, be it in one hand or two I found it quite comfortable to hold with my thumbs along the bottom bezel, and my index fingers and forefingers bracing the back. Its size and weight do make it easier to hold than the First Edition, and it’s even slightly easier to hold than the current Amazon Kindle, which integrates a physical keyboard and has no touchscreen display.
The new Nook is clearly made for curling up with and holding in one hand for an hours-long dive into another universe that’s exactly what I did with it on its maiden voyage. In hand, the difference between the two versions is palpable. That makes it half-an-inch wider than the fourth-gen Kindle. It now measures 6.5 by 5.0 by 0.47 inches–notably smaller than its older sibling. It’s also more compact–6 percent thinner and more than an inch shorter the first Nook. Where the Nook First Edition’s weight and size made it bulky, unwieldly, and generally unpleasant to use, the new Nook is the polar opposite: It weighs 0.47 pounds–35 percent lighter than the original Nook, and slightly lighter than the third-generation Kindle Keyboard (0.60 pounds), and slightly heavier than the fourth-generation $79 Kindle With Special Offers (0.37 pounds). This new Nook is lighter, more svelte, and introduces Neonode’s Zeforce infrared touch technology to simplify access and navigation, as well as a Wi-Fi connection. That year-and-a-half-old Nook missed the mark with a clunky LCD screen for navigating the E-Ink display above it. The new Nook Simple Touch ($99 as of ) has been completely redesigned, yet retains the same moniker as the original Nook, which is now referred to as Nook First Edition.
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