The overall design has rounded edges along the bezel, ensuring it will be easy to hold. There are physical page turn buttons on both the right and left sides, making it ideal for right or left-handed people. The overall colour scheme is Dark Storm (Gray), and the buttons are a darker grey. A small N button is below the screen; this acts as a home button, always bringing you back to the home screen, no matter how many sub-menus you are buried in.
The Glowlight 4 Plus features a 7.8-inch E INK E-paper display with a resolution of 1,404 x 1,872 and 300 PPI. The screen is flush with the bezel and protected by a layer of glass. It has a front-lit display and colour temperature system to provide warm and cool lighting, there are slider bars to control the luminosity of the screen.
Underneath the hood is an Allwinner B300 1.8 GHZ quad core processor, 2GB, LP-DDR4x RAM and 32GB of internal storage, there is no SD card to increase it further. You will be able to connect to the internet to buy audiobooks and ebooks from the Barnes and Noble store with Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n. There will be a separate section for audiobooks and ebooks. You will be able to listen to audiobooks with a 3.5mm headphone jack or connecting wireless headphones or earbuds via Bluetooth 5.0. A USB-C port will charge the device or transfer digital content to the e-reader. It is powered by a 2500 maH battery, which should provide about a months worth of reading, before needing to recharge. The dimensions are 198.36 x 146.86 x 7.77 mm and weighs 285g.
