This is a very sad day. Very sad. I really do want to cry, or tear my hair out. My Nook Simple Touch has developed an insurmountable problem. The SD card will no longer stay engaged. This is a problem as it only has 512 mb available for side-loading, if that. So now I am not sure what to get, as I have literally thousands of books in my library and I am a fickle flights of fancy rereader. If google would have gone ahead and released an android eink device, I wouldn’t be in this situation. I blame you Google, know this, I blame you. And yes, I buy mostly on Amazon NOW, but that wasn’t always the case.
And if I can’t have the Google Play Store, there aren’t any other fancy dancy upgrades I want or need. I certainly don’t want a backlight as that defeats the purpose of having an ereader for me (sleep disorders are a pain), so the Kindle Paperwhite with its freaking never turning off light, is really a no go for me. I’d probably happily take another another Simple Touch or look at the old Kobo Touch, if I could find them, but alas, neither seems available. And I certainly don’t want to pay extra for features I neither want nor need. Heck, I probably would have let Onyx gouge me for a Boox T68 if those were in stock right now too.
Unless someone out there has a better option, I guess I am looking at a refurbished Kindle at 69.99 with their stupid offers. Which irks me because I bought my Nook ST for only 49.99. Somebody help me out, because I would really like a better option.
...Burns Through Her Bookshelf 
I went through this pain a few months ago – I went through TWO nook simple touch ereaders and wore them out. The buttons were no longer responding.
I looked on ebay and was going to get another simple touch – there are a lot of them on there that are nearly new – lots of people received them as gifts and never used them apparently? Also some new ones.
I ultimately decided to get a kindle paperwhite – in my case, I *REALLY* like the backlight – I often find myself reading in dark parking lots while waiting for other people – and I no longer have to strategically park under streetlights 😀
I just tried it – and you can swipe the backlight all the way down and it appears to go really low – in a dark location, there is a very very faint glow – not sure how sensitive you are?
Converting all my books from nook epub to kindle format has gone pretty well – I use Calibre software to manage my books and convert.
But I feel your pain!
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A friend is donating her old kindle paperwhite to me, so we’ll see how it goes. I’ve already been using Calibre, oddly enough, to go the other way. But it’s good software.
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