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Yes, a Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. I don't read technical books on it, but I love it for reading novels on the go. It solves my two big issues with paper books: the integrated light source, and automatically saving my place. The second one wins me over because I've had bookmarks fall out myriad times and it's kind of a pain to find the specific page I was on.

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Thats great, those are two of the reasons I was looking to get Simple Touch GlowLight; plus it is much lighter than carrier around some books. Unfortunately I am planning to read some technical books as well so I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on how it works on that area.

Keep in mind there's a wireless glitch with the simple touch, it may not like your router. Had to set up a separate 801.11b router to talk to the simple touch as it didn't like connecting to our 802.11n mixed mode one.

I think this is specific to the simple touch model. It's my wife's eBook so I cant comment on the technical books part. Though I would research PDF usability if that is a factor for you... Might be limited on book file size.

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