Like Paul Newman’s character in Cool Hand Luke who will get up time and again after being repeatedly knocked down within the movie’s notorious struggle scene, the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader is in some way again once more with a fourth iteration of the Glowlight sporting trendy upgrades and a thick retro-looking display bezel.

Earlier this 12 months, when the corporate’s e-readers and tablets had been sold out online and nearly unimaginable to seek out in shops, Barnes & Noble surprisingly launched a brand new 10.1-inch Nook Android pill designed and constructed by Lenovo with a smooth full steel physique, a 2.3 GHz octa-core processor below the hood, an FM radio, and 32GB of storage that was expandable by a microSD card slot. It was additionally simply $130 making it a tantalizing improve for customers of older B&N units. However, with an LCD show, the pill wasn’t actually an improve for the ageing Glowlight 3, first launched in 2017, which used an easy-on-the-eyes E Ink display.

Four years later, a real Nook successor is right here with the brand new Glowlight 4. Powered by a 1.5GHz processor, a gig of RAM, and 32GB of non-expandable storage, the Glowlight 4 consists of wifi for connecting to the B&N on-line bookstore or book-lending companies like Overdrive. It’s utilizing a 6-inch E Ink Carta HD digital paper show with a decision of 1,440 x 1,080 (300 PPI) and a collection of white and amber LEDs that entrance gentle the display at completely different coloration temperatures for extra snug studying at evening or at midnight. As trendy e-readers go, the bezel across the Glowlight 4’s display could be very beneficiant, however we’ll award some bonus factors for the inclusion of devoted ahead and again web page flip buttons on both facet of the machine, in addition to a bodily residence button. (You merely press the ‘n’ on the backside.)

The Barnes & Noble Glowlight 4 additionally lastly features a USB-C port for charging its 1,400 mAh battery which is promised to ship about 4 weeks of studying time, or side-loading recordsdata like ePubs and PDFs. It’s at the moment listed on the Barnes & Noble web site for $150 ($20 costlier than the ten.1-inch Android-running Nook) however gained’t truly be accessible on the market till December 8.