Barnes and Noble Nook 9-Inch Lenovo Tablet Review: Affordable and Capable

We similar e-readers due to the fact that they're casual connected the eyes and comparatively simple, with 1 usage case: reading. The Nook, which is made by Barnes and Noble, has been a coagulated e-reader enactment since 2009, and the marque has released respective accepted tablets on the way. This year, it updated its tablet made successful collaboration with Lenovo.

Though it's branded a Nook, it's not rather an e-reader. You can work connected it—it comes with the Nook app loaded—but it's the 2024 mentation of the Tab M9 moving Android 13, truthful it's a tablet first. That's not needfully a atrocious thing. Given the comparatively inexpensive $150 price, it means you oregon your kid tin get a beauteous decent tablet without spending hundreds.

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The 9-inch, 1,340 x 800 show is tiny capable that you could propulsion it successful a purse, but you could inactive comfortably watercourse your favourite shows portion traveling oregon walking connected a treadmill. This isn't the astir aggravated show you tin find successful a tablet, but I inactive watched wide YouTube videos astatine 1080p, and with Dolby Atmos, they sounded wide too.

There's an existent headphone jack (hallelujah!), oregon you tin link Bluetooth headphones for listening to euphony oregon audiobooks. If you're acceptable connected seeing the richest colors and aggravated contrast, you astir apt privation something better, but you're besides astir apt not trying to find a tablet successful this terms range.

It comes with 64 gigabytes of retention for each your books and apps, oregon you could adhd your ain microSD paper to grow it to 128 gigs. You'll get up to 13 hours of artillery life, but expect a fewer hours little if you're mostly streaming video.

While successful the Nook app, you whitethorn privation to crook connected speechmaking mode successful either chromatic for colour books to little the colour somesthesia oregon grayscale to marque the surface black-and-white. But this is inactive an LCD screen, truthful it's not arsenic casual connected the eyes arsenic a dedicated e-reader. One happening I don't similar astir the Nook app is that swiping done pages is akin to however you swipe to adjacent retired of an app, truthful I often recovered myself connected the location surface alternatively of the adjacent page.

The tablet has a notification-free mode that you tin acceptable up for immoderate apps you choose, and I would suggest adding the Nook app to that list. E-readers are bully due to the fact that they're distraction-free, truthful turning disconnected notifications helps get this focused feeling back.