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  • Page 2 They may differ from the actual product and are subject to change without notice. Your use of NOOK Color is subject to the NOOK Terms of Service located in this User Guide and here: www.nookcolor.com/legal. Contains Reader® Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Viewing and Sorting the Contents of Your Library ........................50 Organizing Your Library on Shelves ............................... 52 Opening Files on the SD Memory Card ............................54 Transferring Files from Your Personal Computer to Your NOOK Color ................... 54 My Files ......................................55 Using NOOK Friends™ ..........................57 Friends’...
  • Page 4 Buying a Subscription to a Magazine or Newspaper ........................72 Buying an App ....................................73 Using Your WishList..................................73 Using Your NOOK Color in a Barnes & Noble Store ................75 Reading Books in a Barnes & Noble Store ............................ 75 Searching Your NOOK Color ........................76 Searching in Your Library ................................
  • Page 5 Configuring Social Features ................................108 Configuring the Reader ................................. 111 Configuring Search ..................................111 Using Your NOOK Color at Wi-Fi Hotspots ................... 113 Wi-Fi Networks in Barnes & Noble Stores ..........................113 Unsecured Wi-Fi Networks ................................. 113 Secured Wi-Fi Networks ................................113 Updating the Software on Your NOOK Color ..................
  • Page 6 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) STATEMENT INFORMATION TO THE USER ......127 FCC Radiation Exposure Statement ............................127 Other Information Related to the Radio ............................. 127 Appendix F: NOOK Color™ Terms of Service ..................129 Appendix G: AT&T Terms of Service & Acceptable Use Policy ............130...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Send and receive email • Store and read files, including PDFs and Microsoft Office documents Your NOOK Color is small enough to hold easily with one hand and to slip into a bag or a purse. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 8 Power Button On the left side of your NOOK Color is the power button. Press and hold the button for 2 seconds to turn on your NOOK Color. To learn more about power management for your NOOK Color, see “Power and Charging”.

  • Page 9: Home Button

    PDFs. You can add more storage to your NOOK Color by installing a standard microSD Memory card. The card fits into a covered slot in the back of your NOOK, next to the curved bar in the corner. A microSD Memory Card can hold up to 32 GB of books, magazines, newspapers, and other files.

  • Page 10: Getting Started With Your Nook Color

    (for example, an iPhone® or an Android phone). If you don’t have a Barnes & Noble account, you can set one up in a few minutes on the NOOK Color Web site. Just open a browser on your computer, and visit the page: www.nookcolor.com/setup. You’ll also have the opportunity to set up an account during the registration process for your NOOK Color.
  • Page 11 1. Watch the Introductory Video. The first time you turn on your NOOK Color, it will show a 90-second video that gives you a quick tour of the main features of your NOOK Color. Tap the button labeled “Play Video” to start playing the video.
  • Page 12 • the NOOK Color Tutorials page (www.nookcolor.com/tutorials) NOTE: For a list of Web pages with tutorials and other NOOK Color content, tap the star icon on the browser to display the browser Favorites page. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 13: Power And Charging

    On the other hand, if you are carrying your NOOK Color without a cover in a bag or purse, you might want to turn off your NOOK Color to avoid it being accidentally turned on from its “sleeping” state. You also might want to turn off your NOOK Color simply to conserve power.

  • Page 14: Wall Charging

    Wall Charging To charge your NOOK Color, plug it into a wall socket. Plug the small end of the microUSB cable into the microUSB slot on the bottom of your NOOK Color. Plug the large end of the microUSB cable into the power adapter. Plug the adapter into a wall outlet.

  • Page 15: Safety And Care

    Press the power button again for 2 seconds to turn on your NOOK Color. Low Power If you turn on your NOOK Color when its battery charge is almost depleted, a warning appears on the screen, sug- gesting that you begin charging your NOOK Color before trying to use it.

  • Page 16: Caring For Your Nook Color

    Caring for the Touchscreen You should clean the touchscreen on your NOOK Color from time to time. Clean the screen with a damp soft cloth, such as a micro-fiber cloth. Micro-fibre cloths are available from Barnes & Noble stores and from partner retailers.

  • Page 17: Locking And Unlocking Your Nook Color

    Locking and Unlocking Your NOOK Color When your NOOK Color has been idle, your NOOK Color goes to “sleep.” Your NOOK Color darkens its screen to conserve power. It also locks the screen so that accidental touches do not perform actions.

  • Page 18: Using Gestures To Control Your Nook Color

    Using Gestures to Control Your NOOK Color Your NOOK Color puts great reading material right at your fingertips. To read that material, to share it, to rate it, and so on, you’ll use your fingers in different ways. Your NOOK Color recognizes these different gestures: •...
  • Page 19 Swiping to scroll left and right. If you swipe left on the Status Bar, your NOOK Color goes back to your previous activity. The Status Bar is a narrow black bar that displays icons at the bottom of your NOOK Color screen.
  • Page 20 Dragging a book from the Daily Shelf. Lift Lifting is raising your finger from the screen at the completion of a gesture such as dragging. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 21 Pinch your fingers together to shrink an image and zoom out. Pull your fingers apart to enlarge an image and zoom in. Pulling your fingers apart this way is sometimes called “pinching out.” Pinching to zoom in or out. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 22: The Quick Nav Bar

    Library - Holds all the books, magazines, and newspapers available for reading on your NOOK Color. • Shop - Connects you to the Barnes & Noble NOOK Store for convenient shopping right on your NOOK Color. • Search - Searches across your books, magazines, newspapers, and files. Also searches the Barnes & Noble NOOK Store and the Web.

  • Page 23: The Status Bar

    Color is not connected to a network. By default, the NOOK Color status bar displays time on a 12-hour clock. To change the time or to switch to a 24- hour clock, set the 24-hour clock option on the Time Settings screen.
  • Page 24 The Quick Settings Dialog Box If you tap on the right corner of the Status Bar (where the battery status indicator is), your NOOK Color opens the Quick Settings dialog box, which looks like this: The Quick Settings Dialog Box The Quick Settings dialog box displays today’s date followed by five convenient controls for your NOOK color.
  • Page 25 Drag the slider right or left to adjust the brightness of the screen and tap OK. Swiping Left on the Status Bar If you swipe left across the Status Bar, your NOOK Color goes back to the feature or function you were previously using.

  • Page 26: The Home Screen And The Daily Shelf

    The Home Screen and the Daily Shelf The Home Screen is the default display on your NOOK Color. You can return to the Home Screen at any time by pressing the Home button on the front of your NOOK Color.
  • Page 27 Your NOOK Color includes several wallpaper patterns you can choose from to customize the appearance of the Home Screen. You can also upload images and photos to your NOOK Color and select one of your own images or photos to use as the Home Screen’s wallpaper.
  • Page 28 If you selected an image from the Photo Gallery, your NOOK Color displays a cropped version of the image. Drag the crop marks to frame the portion of the photo you want to display. Tap the Save button in the lower left corner of the screen to save the cropped photo as the wallpaper for the Home Screen.
  • Page 29 Home Screen, you can arrange them however you like. You can stack items. Your NOOK Color lets you drag one book cover on top of another as long as no cover is com- pletely obscured by the covers on the top of it.

  • Page 30: Returning To The Home Screen

    Home button twice to return to the Home Screen. The first time you press the Home button, your NOOK Color exits full-screen mode, and the second time it returns you to the Home Screen.

  • Page 31: Reading Books, Magazines, And Newspapers On Your Nook Color

    Reading Books Your NOOK Color makes reading books fun. To start reading, simply tap on a book’s cover. The book opens and fills the page. Then you can use the features described in this section to get the most out of your reading experience.
  • Page 32 NOTE: Tapping along the right or left edge of the screen turns to the next page or the previous page, respec- tively. To call up the Reading Tools, aim for the center of the page. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 33 If you’re reading a book you haven’t purchased (such as a book that’s been lent to you), the Reading Tools menu displays an additional button for buying the book. This button appears at the right end of the slider. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 34 When you tap on search, a keyboard appears on the screen. Type a word or phrase you want to search for in the book, then tap the Search button in the lower right corner of the screen. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 35 If you have read further on the other device, your NOOK Color jumps to the furthest page you’ve read, even if you haven’t read that page on your NOOK Color.

  • Page 36: Using Bookmarks

    Viewing All Bookmarks in a Book To view a list of all the bookmarks in a book, do this: Tap the center of the page to open the Reading Tools. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 37: Reading Books That Include Video

    To display the video in full-screen mode, tap the icon with four outward-pointing arrows. To return to the page you were reading, tap the Back button in the upper left of the screen. You can try out the video features of your NOOK Color by opening The Good Housekeeping Cookbook sample in- cluded in your Library.
  • Page 38 The word appears highlighted, and two vertical bars will appear on either side of it, defining the start and end of the selected text. At the same time, the Text Selection Toolbar appears, as shown below. A selected word and the Text Selection Toolbar. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 39 By dragging with your thumb and forefinger, you can grow or shrink selected text as you like. When you lift your fingers after resizing the text selection, the Text Selection Toolbar re-appears. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 40 If you decide not to take any of these actions, simply tap anywhere else on the screen. Your NOOK Color closes the Text Selection Toolbar. It will also automatically close the toolbar if you haven’t made a selection after 10 seconds.

  • Page 41: Using Notes

    You can share a highlighted passage with friends through email, Facebook, or Twitter. NOTE: Before you can share quotes through Facebook or Twitter, you need to link your NOOK Color to your Facebook or Twitter account. Use the Social settings page to link your NOOK Color to social sites. On the Quick Nav Bar, tap Settings, and then tap the Social menu choice to open the Social settings page.
  • Page 42 When you’re done viewing the note, you can close the Note window by tapping the X in the upper right corner of the window. NOTE: By default, your NOOK Color is configured to display a Note icon next to any passage of text about which you’ve written a note. However, you can configure your NOOK Color not to display Notes icons.
  • Page 43 Tap the tab labeled “Notes & Highlights.” Making Notes Visible or Invisible You can control whether or not your NOOK Color displays a Note icon next to any text about which you’ve written a note. To make notes visible or invisible in the text, do this: Tap the page to display the Reading Tools.
  • Page 44 DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. DRM software protects books from being illegally copied, sold, or distrib- uted. Your NOOK Color and the Barnes & Noble website automatically make sure that when you buy and download a NOOKbook, the NOOKbook recognizes you as its legitimate owner and presents its contents for you to read on your NOOK Color.

  • Page 45: Reading A Kids Picture Book

    Reading a Magazine Magazine Formats Your NOOK Color displays magazines published in a variety of digital formats. The format determines a magazine’s interactive features, including its navigation. Some formats are more interactive than others. This section describes the interface and features available in the most popular format for magazines. You may occa- sionally encounter magazines with different interfaces and features.
  • Page 46 Page View: In Page view, you see digital representations of the printed pages of the magazine. The pages on your NOOK Color will look just like the pages in the printed edition. If the page is filled with photos in the printed edition, the page appears filled with photos on your NOOK Color.

  • Page 47: Reading A Newspaper

    Swipe your finger from right to left across the screen. • Swipe your finger from low to high on the screen. Turning to the Previous Page To turn to the previous page, do any of the following: Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 48 To learn more about Reading Tools, see “The Reading Tools Menu” on page 31. Bookmarking Pages You can bookmark a page in a newspaper article by tapping in the upper right corner of the page. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 49: Your Library On Your Nook Color

    EPUB files you purchase from BN.com automatically appear on the Books page rather than in My Files.) My Files lists any files on your NOOK Color, as well as any files on an SD Memory Card if you have installed the card in your NOOK Color.

  • Page 50: The Search Tool For Your Library

    Along the bottom of the Library screen is a Search tool that searches authors and titles of all publications in your Library. Memory Card If you have an SD Memory Card installed in your NOOK Color, you’ll also see two links appears appear at the top of the Library screen when you click the My Files icon: •...
  • Page 51 NOOK Color.) If you tap on a book with a Download banner, your NOOK Color begins downloading the book. A progress bar on the book’s cover indicates how much of the book has been downloaded.

  • Page 52: Organizing Your Library On Shelves

    Tap in the text field in the dialog box. When a keyboard appears, type the name of the shelf you want to create. Tap Save. Your NOOK Color creates the shelf and returns you to the main My Shelves screen, which displays all your shelves. Adding or Removing Items When you create a shelf, it’s empty.
  • Page 53 A pop-up menu appears. In the menu, tap on the Archive menu choice. Your NOOK Color archives the book or periodical. It lists the book or periodical on a shelf in your Library called Archived. NOTE: You must be in the Library to archive an item. You cannot archive items from the Home Screen.

  • Page 54: Opening Files On The Sd Memory Card

    To open a files stored on an SD Memory Card, do this: Make sure that the SD Memory Card is installed in your NOOK Color. If the card is installed, you’ll see a large button that says Memory Card at the top of the Library when you tap the My Files icon.

  • Page 55: My Files

    • PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pptm, pps, ppsx, ppsm, pot, potx, potm) • Plain Text (txt) • HTML (htm, html, xhtml) Music Files Your NOOK Color can play the following types of music files: • • midi • • • •...
  • Page 56 • H.264 Baseline profile up to 854x480 Recommendations for My Files After you transfer documents, Office files, photos, videos, or audio clips to your NOOK Color, keep back-up copies on your personal computer. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 57: Using Nook Friends

    About Me - settings for your own NOOK Friend account, such as your name In addition to these four buttons, there is a Privacy Settings button in the upper right corner that is labeled with a picture of a gear. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 58: Friends' Activities

    To learn more about a book, periodical, or app mentioned in these activities, tap on its View Details button. To pur- chase an item, tap on the green button listing the item’s price. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 59: Nook Friends

    The picture below shows the NOOK Friends screen of the NOOK Friends app. The Friends view has been selected, showing a list of NOOK Friends. The Friends tab shows a list of your NOOK Friends. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 60 If you do not have any contacts entered in your account, a Setup Account button appears in the dialog box that opens after you have tapped the + button. Tap the Setup Account button to open the Social Settings screen, where you can link your NOOK Color to your Google account and import your Google account contacts.

  • Page 61: Using The Lendme™ Program In Nook Friends

    Friend or any friend who has a Barnes & Noble account with a valid credit card number. Your NOOK Friend or friend can read the book on any NOOK or NOOK Color eReader or on any NOOK application such as NOOK for iPhone®, NOOK for iPod touch®, and NOOK for PC.

  • Page 62: Determining Whether A Book Can Be Lent

    The Lend tab displays a list of your lendable books, along with a LendMe button for each book.The screen below shows the Lend page in the LendMe view of NOOK Friends. This page lists the books you own that are available for lending. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 63 Viewing Books in Your Library You can also view a list of lendable books in your Library. Tap the LendMe icon in the Media Bar of your Library. Your NOOK Color displays three shelves of books: • A shelf of books that you have borrowed.
  • Page 64 Keeping Your List of Lendable Books Private By default, all your NOOK Friends can see all your lendable books. Your NOOK Color offers two levels of privacy control over lendable books. • You can control whether or not your list of lendable books is visible to your NOOK Friends.
  • Page 65 The image below shows the privacy controls for a list of lendable books. A privacy settings window for the LendMe program. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 66 • In the Quick Nav Bar, tap Apps to display the apps on your NOOK Color. Tap the NOOK Friends app to launch it. In the NOOK Friends application, tap the LendMe button in the main navbar. If the Lend but- ton isn’t selected in the row of buttons beneath the main bar, tap the Lend button.

  • Page 67: Borrowing A Book

    Launch the NOOK Friends application, if you haven’t already launched it. To NOOK Friends, do either of the following: • Tap the Apps button the Quick Nav Bar to display the apps installed on your NOOK Color. Tap the icon for the NOOK Friends app to launch it. •...
  • Page 68 To view a list of books that your NOOK Friends have offered to lend you, tap the LendMe button in the NOOK Friends app, then tap the Pending Offers tab. The NOOK Friends app displays the Pending Offers page, listing the books your friends have offered to lend to you. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 69 If you have finished borrowing a book, the book’s cover appears faded. If you would like to purchase the book you borrowed, simply tap on the book’s cover and purchase it just as you would any other book. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 70: About Me

    • The number of NOOK books you own • The number of books you have recommended Here’s an example of a NOOK Friends™ About Me page. An example of the About Me page. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 71: Shopping On Your Nook Color

    Introduction NOTE: To access the Shop on your NOOK Color, you must be connected to a Wi-Fi network. If you are not connected to a network but you are in an area with Wi-Fi access, your NOOK Color will guide you through the process of connecting to a network.

  • Page 72: Buying A Single Issue Of A Magazine Or Newspaper

    Tap the Read button to begin reading the issue. Buying a Subscription to a Magazine or Newspaper Your NOOK Color offers free 14-day trials of magazines and newspapers. You are eligible for one free trial for each newspaper and magazine.

  • Page 73: Buying An App

    Quick Nav Bar. It will also appear on the Daily Shelf. Using Your WishList Your WishList is like a shopping cart on your NOOK Color. You can add books, magazines, newspapers, and apps to your WishList so you can buy them later.
  • Page 74 Buying from Your WishList To buy an item on your WishList, display the list and tap the price button next to the item’s name. Tap the Confirm button to complete your purchase. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 75: Using Your Nook Color In A Barnes & Noble Store

    Reading Books in a Barnes & Noble Store When you use your NOOK Color in a Barnes & Noble store, you have access to all the usual features of your NOOK Color. In addition, you have special privileges and abilities, including the ability to read most NOOKbooks for one hour per day free.

  • Page 76: Searching Your Nook Color

    To return to searching all results, pull down the menu and select All Results. To select the areas that your NOOK Color should search by default, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Search screen.
  • Page 77 As shown below, a pull-down menu in the Search tool lets you select specific types of information to search. The Show pull-down menu in the Search tool. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 78: Searching For Words With Accents And Other Diacritical Marks

    A pop-up window appears, offering additional keyboard buttons for diacritical marks. Tap on the letter-mark combination you want. The pop-up window disappears, and the letter you selected appears in the text field where you were typing. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 79: Using The Web Browser

    Using the Web Browser Your NOOK Color features a Web browser that you can use to visit Web sites. NOTE: The browser supports Adobe® Flash® Player®, so you can watch Flash videos on sites like YouTube. To access the Web browser, do this: Tap the white Nav Arrow to call up the Quick Nav Bar.
  • Page 80 When the Web browser opens, it displays the browser home page. By default, this is set to a page with information about NOOK Color. You can change your home page, if you like. (See below.) A Web browser displaying the NOOK Color home page.
  • Page 81 Displaying a list of additional options for adding a bookmark, searching on a page, displaying Page Info (the title and URL of the current page), displaying a list of Downloads, and jumping to the Settings screen for configuring your browser. The Options Menu in the Browser. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 82: Navigating To A Web Site

    Tap in the Name field and type a name for the bookmark. The Location field already contains the URL for the Web page you are bookmarking, so you do not need to type anything in the Location field. Tap OK. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 83: Adjusting The Text Size Of Your Web Browser

    On the Settings screen, type the menu choice Text size. A dialog box opens, listing the five text sizes supported by the browser. Tap the name of the text size you want. Tap OK. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 84: Zooming In And Out On A Web Page

    A home page is the first page displayed when you start your Web browser. By default, the home page is set to a Barnes & Noble Web page with useful information about your NOOK Color. You can change your home page to be whatever Web page you like.

  • Page 85: Configuring Security Settings For Your Web Browser

    On the Settings screen for your Web browser, tap the Browser Mode menu choice. A dialog box opens. Tap the browser mode you want to use. The dialog box closes, and your choice takes effect right away. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 86: Using Nook Email

    Using NOOK Email™ Your NOOK Color lets you send and receive email from one or more of your email accounts, such as your Gmail account, your Yahoo! account, or your email account for work. NOTE: Your NOOK Color must be connected to a Wi-Fi network in order to send and receive email.
  • Page 87 If you would like to give this account a name (such as Gmail) so you can distinguish it from other email accounts on your NOOK Color, enter the name in the field labeled Give this account a name. If you do not want to give this account a name, leave this field blank.
  • Page 88 10. If you would like to give this account a name (such as Gmail) so you can distinguish it from other email accounts on your NOOK Color, enter the name in the field labeled Give this account a name. If you do not want to give this account a name, simply leave these field blank.

  • Page 89: Composing And Sending A Message

    To send a new message, do this: On the main Email screen, tap the pencil icon in the upper left corner. Your NOOK Color opens a window for composing an email message. Fill out the email form with the address and content you want.

  • Page 90: Reading A Message

    To open an attachment, tap on its name in the list of attachments. If the attachment is a PDF file or a Microsoft Office file supported by NOOK Color, your NOOK Color opens the file for reading. NOTE: Your NOOK Color stores email attachments in the Myfiles/Downloads folder.

  • Page 91: Deleting Messages

    Type the word or words you want to search for. Tap the Search button in the lower right corner of the screen. Your NOOK Color opens a window listing the email messages that match your search query. Tap the message that you want to open.

  • Page 92: Configuring Email Settings

    Accounts. Tap the gear icon to the right of the name of the account you want to configure. Your NOOK Color displays the email configuration screen for that account. The screen looks like this: The Email Account Settings screen.

  • Page 93: General Settings

    Default account - an indication of whether or not you want this account to be the default account for sending and receiving email on your NOOK Color; if you only have set up one account, you can cannot change this set- ting, because the account will always be the default account.

  • Page 94: Using Apps On Your Nook Color

    Tap the Resume Reading icon (the outline of an open book) in the Status Bar. You do not need to quit an application on NOOK Color the way you would quit an application on a desktop com- puter. Simply move to the next feature you want to use.

  • Page 95: Working With Microsoft Office Files

    “MyNOOKcolor” on your personal computer. Drag the files you want to transfer onto the “MyNOOK- color” drive. To organize the files, open the media drive. You’ll see several folders on your NOOK Color. Move your personal files in the My Files folder. Within the folder, you can sort files into these folders: •...
  • Page 96 To launch the Music player application, do this: Open the Quick Nav Menu and tap the Apps icon. Your NOOK Color opens a screen displaying icons of special applications, such as music applications and games. Tap the Music icon. The Music application launches.

  • Page 97: Playing Videos

    Once you have started playing music on Pandora, you can multi-task and read books, shop, and do other activities on your NOOK Color. Use the Home button or the Quick Nav Bar to move to the other activity you want to do.

  • Page 98: Configuring Your Nook Color

    Your NOOK Color gives you full control over many areas of its operations, from Wi-Fi connections to font sizes to browser settings to audio controls. To adjust the configuration of your NOOK Color, you’ll often work with the Settings tool. To call up Settings, do this: Tap the white Nav Arrow to open the Quick Nav Bar.

  • Page 99: Viewing Device Information

    The Device Info settings screen displays useful information about your device, including your battery status (how much of a charge remains) and the amount of storage available on your NOOK Color. It also reports your NOOK Color’s serial number and the version number of your NOOK Color software.

  • Page 100: Configuring Wireless Settings

    To re-register with your existing account, or to register with a new account, follow the instructions for getting started. Viewing Legal Notices To view legal notices, such as the Terms of Service for using your NOOK Color, tap the Legal menu choice on the Device Info page.

  • Page 101: Configuring Screen Settings

    The Auto-rotate screen option affects the Web browser, magazines, and the photo gallery. By default, these features will switch to “landscape mode” when you rotate your NOOK Color. You can turn this rotation feature on or off by checking or unchecking on the Orientation checkbox.

  • Page 102: Configuring Sound Settings

    The dialog box closes. Your change takes effect right away. Configuring Sound Settings On the Sounds settings page, you can mute or unmute your NOOK color. You can also set the speaker volume for media such as music and video and for notifications, such as low-battery warnings.

  • Page 103: Configuring Time Settings

    To adjust the sound volume for system notifications, do this: Tap on the Notification volume menu choice. A dialog box appears with a slider for controlling the volume of your NOOK Color when it plays sounds to call your attention to low-battery warnings or other system notifications.

  • Page 104: Configuring Keyboard Settings

    On the Keyboard settings page, you can configure the behavior of your NOOK Color’s online keyboard. To configure the keyboard, do this: On the Settings screen, tap Keyboard. Your NOOK Color displays the Keyboard settings screen, which lists five options that you can turn on or off. The keyboard options are: •...
  • Page 105 NOOK Color. When you connect your NOOK Color, your personal computer will mount it as though it were a new disk drive. Drag the files you want to transfer onto your NOOK Color. Files should go in the My Files folder. Put photos in the Photos subfolder. Put wallpapers in the Wallpapers subfolder.

  • Page 106: Configuring The Shop

    If you like, you can require that your Barnes & Noble account password be entered before your NOOK Color autho- rizes a purchase. If you are sharing your NOOK Color with several people, you might want to require a password for purchases to ensure that you know about and approve all purchases being made.
  • Page 107 Tap the line reading Require Password for Purchases. A dialog box appears, prompting you to enter your password. Tap on the password field in the dialog box to call up your NOOK Color’s online keyboard, then type your password in the password field. Tap OK.

  • Page 108: Configuring Social Features

    Configuring Social Features You can use the Social settings screen to link your NOOK Color to your Facebook account and your Twitter™ ac- count. You can also import all your contacts from your Google™ Gmail account. Once you have linked to Facebook and Twitter and set up email contacts, you can share favorite quotes, book recommendations, and reading status updates with your friends.
  • Page 109 You can post a LendMe offer, a quotation, and a recommendation on the wall of a friend. You can also post a quote, a recommendation, and reading status on your own wall. To link your NOOK Color to your Facebook account, do this: On the Social screen in Settings, tap the Link Your Account button under the Facebook logo.
  • Page 110 Linking Your NOOK Color to Your Twitter Account You can share quotes, recommendations, and reading status by posting a message to your Twitter account. If you post while reading a book, your NOOK Color will automatically embed a shortened link to the book you’re writing about.

  • Page 111: Configuring The Reader

    Browser: your Web bookmarks and browser history • Music: the names of albums, artists, and tracks for all music files (in AAC or MP3 format) on your NOOK Color To change the list of items that your NOOK Color searches through, do this: On the Settings screen, tap Search.
  • Page 112 On the Settings screen, tap Search. Tap the menu choice Clear search shortcuts. A dialog box appears, explaining that this will clear shortcuts to recently searched items. Tap OK. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 113: Using Your Nook Color At Wi-Fi Hotspots

    This section summarizes how your NOOK Color works with various types of Wi-Fi hotspots. Wi-Fi Networks in Barnes & Noble Stores Your NOOK Color will automatically detect a Wi-Fi network in a Barnes & Noble store and ask if you want to con- nect to it.

  • Page 114: Updating The Software On Your Nook Color

    Installing a Software Update over a Wireless Network When a new software release is available, your NOOK Color will download it and install it when you next connect to a wireless network. A small green NOOK symbol will appear in the far left corner of the Status Bar when a new software release is available.

  • Page 115: Using An Sd Memory Card

    Using an SD Memory Card You can install an SD Memory Card in your NOOK Color to add up to 32 GB of memory to your NOOK Color— enough for many thousand more books, along with periodicals, music, and personal files.
  • Page 116 Close the small gray lid and snap it into place. Opening the microSD slot on the back of your NOOK Color. Positioning the microSD card in the slot. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 117: Removing A Memory Card

    Lay your NOOK Color face down on a clean, level surface. Find the small gray lid on the corner of your NOOK Color closest to the open corner with the curved bar. Using your finger tip, gently pull the lip open, folding it flat against the back of the device.
  • Page 118 With the tip of your finger, push in the memory card, then release it. The card will pop partly out. Slide the card the rest of the way out of the slot, and remove the cover. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 119: Tips And Troubleshooting

    If your screen is dirty, it might detect touches when none are occurring. This problem can occur on any touchscreen device. Wait until your NOOK Color has timed out and the screen is dark. Then wipe the screen clean with a soft, dry cloth.

  • Page 120: Appendix A: Page Numbering And File Formats

    Because printed pages can be larger than the screen of your NOOK Color, and because many printed books use type that is smaller than would be pleasant to read on an eReader, your NOOK Color may enlarge the type on a page and spread a physical page of text across two or more digital pages.

  • Page 121: Appendix B: International Use And Languages

    If you live or travel outside of the United States, be aware of the following points regarding using your NOOK Color: • Purchasing an NOOK Color: You can only purchase a NOOK Color if you have a billing address in the United States. •...
  • Page 122 Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indo- nesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish Your NOOK Color can display eBooks in other languages if the fonts are embedded in the eBook files. Language sup- port in other parts of the , for example in the Library and the Music player, is variable.

  • Page 123: Appendix C: One Year Limited Warranty

    This Limited Warranty covers your NOOK. For purposes of this Limited Warranty, “NOOK” means only the hard- ware comprising: (i) your NOOK or NOOK Color eReader unit; and (ii) the peripherals included in the packaging with your NOOK or NOOK Color.
  • Page 124 This Limited Warranty does not cover damage or malfunctions caused by accident, disaster, misuse, abuse, negligence or other external causes; third-party products; Internet or telecommunications failures; commercial use; unauthorized opening, use, service, tampering, alteration, repair or modification; or inadequate packing or shipping procedures. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 125 This Limited Warranty is valid only in the United States of America. The laws of the State of New York, U.S.A. will apply to this Limited Warranty, though the laws of your state of residence may apply to any tort claims and any claims under any consumer protection statutes, as provided under applicable law. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 126: Appendix D: Trademarks And Copyrights

    The microSD and microSDHC marks and logos are trademarks of SD-3C, LLC. Wi-Fi Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Alliance are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Additional Information Additional copyright, trademark, and other notices may be found the NOOK Color™ Terms of Service: http://www.nookcolor.com/legal Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 127: Appendix E: Fcc Notices

    For information on connecting to Wireless networks, see “Using Your NOOK Color at Wi-Fi Hotspots”. • Your NOOK Color has a Wi-Fi setting that turns off the radio. Wi-Fi networking should be turned off on air- planes. For more information, see “Airplanes”.
  • Page 128 • For information about wireless configuration settings, see “Configuring Wireless Settings”. • Use only the custom, shielded micrtoUSB cable provided with your NOOK Color when connecting your NOOK Color to a personal computer. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 129: Appendix F: Nook Color™ Terms Of Service

    Appendix F: NOOK Color™ Terms of Service The NOOK Color™ Terms of Service are located here: http://www.nookcolor.com/legal Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...

  • Page 130: Appendix G: At&T Terms Of Service & Acceptable Use Policy

    (30) days. Termination or suspension by AT&T of Service also constitutes termination or suspension (as applicable) of Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 131 AT&T. AT&T is not responsible for the content of those sites. AT&T is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by AT&T of those sites. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 132 Materials and shall be free to use or disseminate such Materials on an unrestricted basis for any purpose. You acknowledge that you are responsible for the Materials that you submit, and you, not AT&T, have full responsibility for the Materials, including their legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 133 Unless otherwise explicitly stated, all marketing or promotional materials provided with or through this the Materials or the Service are solely directed to individuals, companies or other entities located in the United States, the United Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 134 IP Service. These activities may relate to the content stored or transmitted by Customers or its Users or to the nature of the transmissions themselves such as sending large numbers of unsolicited messages (Spam). Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 135 If AT&T discovers that you have renewed Service, or ordered new Service, following termination for an AUP violation without the prior written consent of the AT&T abuse team, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
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  • Page 138 Internet or any other means of communication; distributing or using tools designed to compromise security, including cracking tools, password guessing programs, packet sniffers or network probing tools (except in the case of authorized legitimate network security operations); Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 139 Terms of Service, this AUP or other laws or regulations, and to cooperate with legal authorities and third parties in the investigation of alleged wrongdoing, including disclosing the identity of the user that AT&T deems responsible for the wrongdoing. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 140 Service(s) obtained from AT&T. Failure to responsibly manage the use of the Service(s) obtained from AT&T may be cause for termination of Service(s) to you and, depending upon the terms under which you acquired your Service(s), could lead to the imposition of early termination fees. Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 141 66 reading 31 searching within a book 43 Facebook selecting text 38 linking your NOOK Color to your Facebook account bookmarks in a book 36 offering to lend a friend a book through Facebook 66 in a magazine 46 shared information in the Friends’...
  • Page 142 Status Bar 23 creating a playlist 96 InStore 75 overview of music on your NOOK Color 95 International Use and Languages 121 playing music files 96 streaming music with Pandora Internet Radio 97 supported file formats for music 55...
  • Page 143 72 brightness 101 Sudoku 94 screen orientation 101 swipe 19 scroll 20 Sync button in the Library 49 SD memory card copying files from 54 installing 115 Barnes & Noble NOOK Color User Guide...
  • Page 144 54 Word files 55 troubleshooting tips 119 turning pages 31 turning your NOOK Color on and off 13 tutorial videos 94 Twitter linking your NOOK Color to your Twitter account shared information in the Friends’ Activities feed 58...

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