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Page 5: Table Of Contents
What Your NOOK Tablet Can Do ....... . . 12...
Page 6 Buying a NOOK Kids Book ........
Page 7 The Library on BN.com, PCs, Macs, and Mobile Devices ....176 Managing your NOOK Account ....... . . 178...
Page 8 ....Getting Files into Your NOOK ....... . . 253 Playing Music and Audio Files .
Page 9 Getting Started with NOOK Friends ......362 Adding Friends to NOOK Friends ......363 Using Friends Activities .
Page 10 ..... Unfreezing a Frozen NOOK ........433 Fixing SD Card Woes .
Page 11: The Missing Credits
The Missing Credits About the Author Preston Gralla (author) is the author of more than 40 books that have been translated into 20 languages, including Samsung Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual, Droid X: The Missing Manual, Droid 2: The Missing Manual, Big Book of Windows Hacks,...
Page 12 About the Creative Team Nan Barber (editor) has worked with the Missing Manual series since its incep- tion—long enough to remember booting up her computer from a floppy disk. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com. Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a production editor. When not ushering books through production, she’s writing and baking whatever she can think up.
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Page 17: Introduction
It’s the NOOK Tablet—a great combo eReader and Android tablet from the bookseller Barnes & Noble. This book will help you get the most out of your NOOK Tablet, and there’s a lot you can get out of it, as you’ll see. Whether you’re looking just to get started or want to dig deep into the tablet’s capabilities, this book’s got you covered.
Page 18 NOOK’s magic. Buying a NOOK Before you can start using a NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color, you need to buy one. If you’ve got a Barnes & Noble store near you (and you likely do, considering how many there are), head for the NOOK section—pretty much all the stores...
Page 19 TIP Barnes & Noble stores aren’t the only retail outlets where you can buy a NOOK Tablet or a NOOK Color—other stores have them as well. For example, many Best Buy stores also stock them. If you’re not near a Barnes & Noble store or other retail outlet that stocks NOOKs, or if you just prefer buying over the Internet, the www.bn.com...
Page 20 NOOK as an eReader and a tablet. It gives you a guided tour of the hard- ware, shows you how to set up the NOOK so it works just the way you like, and then shows you how to use it for the first time. By the time you finish you’ll be a pro.
Page 21 • Part 5, The Web and Email, covers the NOOK as a great Internet device. You’ll find out how to browse the Web and send and receive email using any email account. • Part 6, Getting Social, shows you how to use the NOOK’s many social fea- tures, such as sharing books, reviews, and recommendations with friends, as well as using the NOOK in concert with Facebook and Twitter.
Page 22 On our Feedback page, you can get expert answers to questions that come to you while reading, share your thoughts on this Missing Manual, and find groups for folks who share your interest in the NOOK. To have your say, go to www.missingmanuals.com/feedback.
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Page 25: Part I The Basics
ParT The Basics CHAPTER Getting to Know Your NOOK Tablet CHAPTER 2 Setting Up Your NOOK Tablet CHAPTER 3 Using Your NOOK Tablet for the First Time...
Page 27: Getting To Know Your Nook Tablet
NOOK Tablet (and NOOK Color) so you can get up and run- ning quickly. NOTE This book covers the NOOK Color as well as the NOOK Tablet. When the NOOK Color differs in any significant way from the NOOK Tablet, we’ll let you know.
Page 28: What Your Nook Tablet Can Do
What Your NOOK Tablet Can Do To say that the NOOK Tablet is a do-everything device is not hyperbole. Take a gander at this list of everything it lets you do: • Read eBooks. The NOOK Tablet has been designed from the ground up to be a great eReader.
Page 29 • Borrow and lend books. Just like you can borrow and lend books with your friends, you can do that same thing with many books on your NOOK Tablet, using the LendMe feature. You’ll even be able to borrow library books on it.
Page 30 NOTE As this book went to press, the NOOK Color didn’t have Hulu Plus or Netflix capabilities. A free software update will eventually let the NOOK Color play them, so check for updates regularly. (See page 435 for details about how to upgrade your NOOK Color’s software.)
Page 31 • Browse the Web. The NOOK Tablet has a web browser built right in, so you can visit any website on the Internet and view all of its contents, including videos. • Download and use apps. Dying to play the latest game (Angry Birds, any- one?) or run the latest cool app? The NOOK Tablet lets you do that, with its built-in Apps store.
Page 32: A Quickie Look At The Hardware
NOTE The NOOK Color has 8 GB of memory and 6 GB for content, with 5 GB of that reserved for Barnes & Noble content. It measures 8.1 by 5.0 by 0.48 inches and weighs 15.8 ounces. Its battery life is good for 8 hours of reading.
Page 33: The Nook Button
Down at the bottom of the NOOK Tablet, you’ll find the NOOK button, which just happens to be in the horseshoe shape of the NOOK symbol. If the tablet is sleeping (see page 21), pressing the NOOK button wakes it up. If the tablet is already awake, pressing the button opens the Quick Nav bar that lets you take advantage of all of the tablet’s features.
Page 34 Tablet. That update, numbered 1.41, was released at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. There’s a chance that your NOOK Color hasn’t yet received the update. If that’s the case, the NOOK Color will operate somewhat differently than you read here. Fear not, though: If you don’t have it yet, the software update is on the way.
Page 35: Speaker And Volume Buttons
Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Speaker and Volume Buttons Turn over your NOOK Tablet, and you’ll see the speaker near the bottom. Many apps have built-in volume controls, but the NOOK Tablet has physical volume buttons as well. Find them on the right-hand side of the tablet, up near the top.
Page 36: Headphone Jack
Headphone Jack Near the upper-right corner of the NOOK Tablet, you’ll see a headphone jack. There’s no magic to how it works—plug in headphones or an external speaker, and you’re ready to go.
Page 37: Power Button
Power Button In the NOOK Tablet’s upper-left corner lives the power button. Hold it for a second or two to turn off your NOOK Tablet; hold it again for a second or two to turn it back on. TIP If your NOOK Tablet is sleeping, pressing the power button will wake it up. For details about sleep, see below.
Page 38 2 minutes to 1 hour. When the screen blacks out, to make it come to life again, press either the NOOK button or the power button. The tablet wakes from its slumber. Slide the green NOOK button onscreen over the to the right, and you’ll unlock it.
Page 39: Usb Port, Connector, And Charger
USB Port, Connector, and Charger At its bottom, the NOOK Tablet has a small USB port, and it serves double duty. The tablet comes with a USB cable; plug the cable’s mini connector into the USB port, plug the other end of the cable into a power adapter, and then plug the power adapter into a wall outlet.
Page 40 PC or Mac instead of a wall, it lets you transfer files between your computer (either PC or Mac) and the NOOK Tablet. As you’ll see in Chapter 11, it’s a great way to transfer music or other media files from your computer to your tablet.
Page 41: Microphone
. The installation should happen automatically when you plug in your NOOK. If it doesn’t, you might need to do a bit of work. See page 435 for details. Microphone Up at the top of the NOOK Tablet, just to the left and in front of the power but- ton you’ll see a tiny hole.
Page 42: Vividview Color Touchscreen
1024-600. That’s a lot of pixels packed into a small space. TIP Your NOOK’s touchscreen will end up with fingerprints and dirt on it, because you’re going to be touching it a lot. It’s best to use a microfiber cloth to clean it, like the ones for cleaning eyeglasses.
Page 43: Home Screen
Get used to the Home screen because you’ll be spending plenty of time there, finding books to read, navigating your tablet and checking its status, and much more. Press the NOOK button to get there. You’ll explore the Home screen in much more detail in Chapter 3, but here’s a brief rundown of what you’ll find:...
Page 44 Home screens you’re currently viewing. Swipe to the left or right to get to another one. • Wallpaper. Your NOOK Tablet’s Home screen has wallpaper on it, just like a computer does. And just as on a computer, you can change the wallpaper.
Page 45 NOTE The Status bar is visible no matter what you’re doing on the NOOK Tablet—whether you’re on your Home screen, reading a book or magazine, or even watching a video. The seven buttons on this bar, which appears when you press the NOOK but- ton, let you get to the Home screen, open your Library, go shopping, search the NOOK Tablet, access apps, browse the Web, and change your settings.
Page 47: Setting Up Your Nook Tablet
The little NOOK icon on the USB cable near the mini connector will turn orange, showing that your NOOK is charging. When it’s fully charged, it turns green. It takes about 3 hours to fully charge a NOOK Tablet, but if your NOOK Tablet already has a charge, it may take less time.
Page 48: Initial Setup And Connecting To A Network
NOTE As you’ll see in Chapter 11, you can use the USB cable to connect your NOOK Tablet to your computer and then transfer files between them. Unlike some smartphones and Android tablets, though, your NOOK Tablet doesn’t charge when it’s connected to a computer.
Page 49 Unless you’re a lawyer with the time and inclination to read it, you’ll likely just tap the green Agree button. On the next screen, select your time zone, and then tap Next. SeTTIng uP Your nooK TaBleT...
Page 50 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Now the fun begins. Your NOOK Tablet looks around in search of a WiFi net- work. It lists any that it finds. If you’re at home, you see your home WiFi net- work listed; if you’re at a B&N, that network is what you see. If any public WiFi hotspots are nearby, you’ll see them in the list as well.
Page 51 38. After a moment or two, you’ll see a connection icon next to the network you tapped, and the indication beneath it, “Connected to the internet.” Tap “Continue with Setup” to move on. SeTTIng uP Your nooK TaBleT...
Page 52: Register Your Nook Tablet
NOTE Your NOOK has a number assigned to it called a MAC address, a unique identifier, like an ID, that identifies your NOOK Tablet to the Internet. No two devices have the same MAC address, so what you see is unique in the world. It’s not likely that you’ll need to know your MAC address, but if you ever need it, like if you’re asking for tech support, you can easily find it out.
Page 53 To start exploring, press the NOOK button, and you’ll come to the main screen. (As for what to do next, turn to Chapter 3, ”Using Your NOOK Tablet for the First Time.”)
Page 54: Using And Troubleshooting Wifi
One problem you may come across when making a connection to your home network is that your network name doesn’t show up on the NOOK Tablet’s WiFi list. If that’s the case, the likely hitch is that your home network is set up to be a hidden network;...
Page 55 A screen appears with details that will warm the cockles of any geek’s heart, including the signal strength, exact speed of connection, type of security being used, and even the IP address your NOOK Tablet is currently using. One way to solve the problem is to unhide your network; check your router’s documentation for details.
Page 56: Using Your Nook Tablet At A Barnes & Noble Store
Barnes & Noble Store You can use your NOOK Tablet at any WiFi hot spot, but it really shows off its stuff when you use it at a Barnes & Noble store. When you go into the store, your NOOK Tablet automatically connects to its WiFi hotspot (if you’ve got the tablet...
Page 57 If you have any questions about the NOOK Tablet, or need help of any kind, you’ll find out that you have a friend as well, because stores offer free in-person technical support and advice.
Page 59: Using Your Nook Tablet For The First Time
Now the real fun begins. In this chapter, you’ll get down to brass tacks, using the NOOK Tablet for the first time. You’ll find out how to con- trol it using gestures and the keyboard, and learn the ins and outs of the Home screen and all its nooks and crannies, including how to customize it.
Page 60 TIP With all the tapping, pressing, swiping, and sliding you’ll do on your NOOK, the screen tends to get fingerprints on it. Your best bet for cleaning it is to use a soft cloth, like the kind used to clean eyeglasses.
Page 61 Move your two fingers away from each other and you zoom in. NOTE Double-tapping on a picture of magazine page often zooms in on it. Double-tap again to zoom back out. uSIng Your nooK TaBleT For The FIrST TIMe...
Page 62: The Keyboard
The Keyboard Most of the time you’ll be tapping, swiping, scrolling, and pinching while using your NOOK, but sometimes you’ll be using a keyboard as well—a virtual, onscreen keyboard rather than a physical one. You don’t need to do anything special to make the keyboard appear. Tap any- where you need to enter text—in a search box on a website or in the body of an...
Page 63 Your fingers may get a bit cramped tapping on the small screen, so if you want to feel more expansive and get a bit more room as you tap away, turn the NOOK sideways, and the keyboard expands to fill the extra space.
Page 64 Accented and Special Characters What? You say you’re not satisfied with those symbols and want even more? Well, you’re in luck. If you want to enter accented or special characters, such as those used in foreign languages (é, for example) it’s simple to do. Press and hold your finger on a key such as the letter “a.”...
Page 65: The Quick Nav Bar
In late 2011 and early 2012, the NOOK Color was automatically given a software update that made it look and work almost identically to the NOOK Tablet. Before the update, the NOOK button didn’t make the Quick Nav bar appear, for example, and instead brought you to the Home screen.
Page 66 If your NOOK Color lacks the Netflix app, you can download it for free from the NOOK Store. As of this writing, Hulu Plus doesn’t work on the NOOK Color, but it may by the time you read this.
Page 67: The Status Bar
The Web button in the Quick Nav bar may be have a banner with the word “Disabled” across it, and the button itself may be grayed out. If that’s the case, access to you your NOOK browser has been blocked. Some people do that if they worry about their children browsing the Web unattended.
Page 68 • An envelope icon with an @ sign means you’ve got new email. • A green NOOK symbol indicates that your NOOK has been updated with the latest software. • An icon of two friends appears to tell you that there’s been action in the NOOK Friends app, such as a new contact added.
Page 69: Quick Settings
Status bar, and the Quick Settings screen launches. The screen has these five options: • Battery. Shows how much battery life you’ve got left. If the NOOK is charg- ing, you see the word “Charging” beneath it, and if the NOOK isn’t plugged in you’ll see the word “Discharging.”...
Page 70 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com • Auto-rotate screen. When this box is turned on, the NOOK’s screen orien- tation changes to either horizontal (landscape) or vertical (portrait). You can see this behavior when you’re reading some magazines, or browsing the Web. If you don’t like this behavior, tap to uncheck the green box.
Page 71: The Keep Reading And More Menus
Tap that icon, and you jump to the most recent page. If you’re new to the NOOK and have yet to read anything on it, you see the sad phrase “Keep Reading None.” (If that’s the case, get reading real fast; that’s what the NOOK is for, after all.)
Page 72: The Daily Shelf
To open anything on the More menu, just tap it. To close the menu without opening anything, tap anywhere outside the More menu. The Daily Shelf The NOOK is a smart little compan- ion. It knows what kinds of things you’re likely to do—what books or magazines you want to read, what apps you plan to launch, and so on.
Page 73 Library button in the Status bar. The NOOK puts items in the Daily Shelf in chronological order, but you’re not stuck with them that way. You can easily rearrange them. To move an item to a different spot, press it, drag upward about an inch, and then drag it to the left or right, just above where you want it to place it.
Page 74 NOTE Some items show up on the Daily Shelf no matter what you do. Books you’ve bought or downloaded, for example, always appear. If you’d like, you can also have more than one issue of a newspaper or maga- zine show up. In the Daily Shelf Items section, tap either “Recent issues of each Newspaper,”...
Page 75 NOTE When you delete an item from your Daily Shelf, it’s still available on your NOOK and appears in your Library. Moving Items Between the Daily Shelf and the Home Screen Since items on the Daily Shelf shift about as you add and remove them, you may have some items that you’d prefer to keep in a permanently fixed location on...
Page 76: Media Shortcuts
The Daily Shelf’s main talent is putting an always-changing selection of books, magazines, newspapers, and apps within easy reach. But that selection isn’t permanent; it changes as you use your NOOK. You may, though, want to have some items always within easy reach: for exam- ple, the books and magazines you’re currently reading;...
Page 77 If you’re the tidy sort, you can even arrange all the items into a neat grid. To do it, just double-tap any open area of the Home screen, and they magically rear- range themselves. Any stacked items are unstacked and distributed on the grid. uSIng Your nooK TaBleT For The FIrST TIMe...
Page 78 “Remove from home.” NOTE When you remove an item from the Home screen, you’re not actually deleting the item. It’s still on your NOOK and accessible from elsewhere—the Library or the Apps menu, for example. ChaPTer 3...
Page 79 • Open r uns an app. NOTE If a book or app on the Home screen has not fully downloaded, a Download indication on the cover or icon tells you so. uSIng Your nooK TaBleT For The FIrST TIMe...
Page 80 • Recommend lets you tell your friend the book or periodical via Facebook, Twitter, or NOOK Contacts. • Remove from home, as explained previously, removes the item from the Home screen.
Page 81: Changing Your Wallpaper
You may feel that way sometimes about your NOOK. You can’t give the NOOK a new hairdo, but you can change its wallpaper—the background picture on your Home screen and its panels.
Page 82 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Tap either the Wallpapers or the Photo Gallery tab. You’ll see a list of six ➌ choices. But there are more than what you see. Flick down through the list to see more choices. When you come to a choice you want, tap it. What happens next depends upon whether you choose a picture from Wallpapers or from Photo Gallery.
Page 83 ➍ to the Home screen with your new wallpaper there in all its shining glory. Otherwise, tap Cancel, in which case you end up back on the Home screen, old wallpaper intact. uSIng Your nooK TaBleT For The FIrST TIMe...
Page 84 (On the NOOK Tablet, the box doesn’t have a color outline; on the NOOK Color, the box is outlined in orange.) That box shows you the dimensions of the NOOK wallpaper. Everything inside the box will become the wallpaper.
Page 85 Discard and you get sent to the Home screen, with no changes made. There’s another way to set one of your photos as wallpaper as well, starting from the Gallery rather than the Home screen: First go to the Gallery: Press the NOOK button, and then tap ➊ Apps➝Media.
Page 86: Returning Home
Make your selection as you would normally. Returning Home No matter where you are or what you’re doing on your NOOK, there’s an easy way to return to the Home screen—and you don’t even need to click your ruby slippers to get there.
Page 87: Searching Your Nook
That’s because the NOOK has a great built-in search tool…in fact, it has not just one, but two search tools, one for searching the Library, and one for searching everywhere on the NOOK, launched from the Quick Nav bar.
Page 88 Here are the categories you’ll search when you do a search from the Quick Nav bar: • Library. Your books, magazines, and newspapers that match the search. • Apps. The apps whose name or first letter combination in the name matches your search.
Page 89 You can always go back and change your selections. NOTE You can’t turn off searching the Library or Shop—the NOOK always searches them when you search from the Quick Nav bar. uSIng Your nooK TaBleT For The FIrST TIMe...
Page 90 You’ll search through the Library by author, title, and subject, although the NOOK also searches for the names of apps as well. If it doesn’t find any results, it searches the Store, figuring that you’re looking for a book, newspaper, or magazine.
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Page 93: Reading Books And Periodicals
ParT Reading Books and Periodicals CHAPTER 4 Reading Books, Newspapers, and Magazines CHAPTER 5 Reading NOOK Kids Books...
Page 95: Reading Books, Newspapers, And Magazines
Newspapers, and Magazines many things, but above all it’s a great eReader for YOUR NOOK TABLET DOES books, newspapers, and magazines. You’ll find countless tools that make your reading experience efficient and enjoyable—and you’ll learn all about them in this chapter.
Page 96 TIP When browsing or searching the NOOK Store, when you come across a book that you already have on your NOOK, the green button below it displays “Read” rather than a price. Tap it to read the book. There are other ways to open a book without even hunting around in the Library for them.
Page 97: A Tour Of The Book Reader
TIP If you’ve been reading a book that you’ve transferred to your NOOK from your PC or Mac (see page 282), it won’t show up in the Books area under the More button. Instead, you’ll find it in the Files area.
Page 98 NOTE The page numbers at the bottom of the page are for the NOOK version of the book, not the print version. To move ahead one page, tap any spot along the right edge of the screen, or swipe your finger to the left. To move back one page, tap any spot along the left edge of the screen, or swipe your finger to the right.
Page 99 That’s just the basics, though. To unleash the full power of the NOOK’s reader, tap anywhere in the center of the page or at the bottom of the page to bring up the Reading Tools menu. This menu does all kinds of nifty things—hops to the interactive table of contents, searches the book, changes the font size and brightness, and more.
Page 100 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Here are the six reading tools: • Contents. Jumps you back to the book’s table of contents, with the current chapter highlighted. It’s interactive—tap a listing in the table and you’ll jump to that location in the book. Separate tabs show notes, highlights, and bookmarks and let you jump to them as well.
Page 101 • Share. Tap here and you can share information about the book with oth- ers—recommend it, review it, “Like” it on Facebook, and more. See page 92 for details. • Text. Lets you make the text just right—not too large, not too small, just the right font, and with just the right background color.
Page 102 NOTE If you download a book to your PC or Mac, and then transfer it to your NOOK (page 282), the Discover feature may not be available; in that case the icon will appear dimmed.
Page 103 Look at the top-right corner of the screen when you bring up the Reading Tools menu, and you see a gray NOOK icon. That’s for creating a bookmark. Tap the icon: It turns blue and elongates. You’ve just added a bookmark, and it stays there even when the Reading Tools menu disappears.
Page 104 After you do that, to get to the page you were just reading, tap the Go Back button. There’s also a nifty slider that shows you your current location in the book, including the chapter number and title, and how many pages remain in the chapter.
Page 105: Using The Table Of Contents
A book’s table of contents does a lot more than just let you navigate by chapter title. It’s also your gateway into three great NOOK features— Notes, Highlights, and Bookmarks. (You learned how to create a book- mark on page 87; for help on cre- ating notes and highlights, turn to page 103.)
Page 106 ChaPTer 4...
Page 107 If you read a book on a device other than your NOOK, such as a computer, tablet, or smart- phone, the next time you open the book on your NOOK, you’ll jump to the page you were reading on that device, even if you haven’t yet read the page on the NOOK. This magic only happens, though, if both the device you’re reading the book on and the NOOK have Internet access while you’re reading.
Page 108: Sharing Your Reading
Think of it as your own personalized book club. NOTE If you download a book to your PC or Mac, and then transfer it to your NOOK (page 282), the Share feature may not be available; in that case the icon will appear faint instead of bright.
Page 109 When you select Contacts, for example, an email-like screen appears that lets you select the contacts to whom you want to recommend the book. The NOOK thoughtfully enters all the basic information for you about the book—title, description, author, and so on—so that you don’t have to do it yourself.
Page 110 In addition, if the person to whom you’ve sent the recommendation uses a NOOK, he gets a small notification in the shape of a medal or ribbon on his Notification bar. Tapping that icon and then tapping the screen that appears opens up the full recommenda- tion, book cover and all.
Page 111 What do you have to say about it? Tap here to share your views. Your review is posted on BN.com and appears when people browse the book; it also shows up when people view the book on their NOOK. You can also post the review to Facebook or Twitter.
Page 112: Changing The Text And Display
Changing the Text and Display Want to make the text of the book larger or smaller, change its font, spacing, and more? Simply tap the Text icon in the Reading Tools menu. Here’s what you can customize: • Size. Yes, when it comes to reading, size does matter. Just tap any one of the eight font sizes.
Page 113 • Theme. Changes the background and text color combination. Out of the box, the NOOK uses the Day theme, which has black text against a white background; Night has white text against a black background. Other choices include different colored text, such as black text on a sepia background.
Page 114: Selecting Text, Taking Notes, Highlighting Text, And More
Selecting Text, Taking Notes, Highlighting Text, and More One of the niftiest things about the NOOK Tablet—and what sets it apart from reading a paper book—are the extras it gives you: notes, text highlighting, and the ability to select text and then do something with it—look up a word in a dictionary, say, or share it with others via email or social networking sites like Facebook.
Page 115 As with highlights, you can see a list of all your notes by tapping Reading Tools➝Contents. • Share. Tap and you can share the highlighted text (what the NOOK calls a quote) with your contacts, or with others on Facebook or Twitter.
Page 116 NOTE If you’ve copied the book you’re reading from your computer to your NOOK, you may not be able to share the highlighted text with other people, and the button may be grayed out.
Page 117 The other two icons may look familiar—they’re for Google (the colorful let- ter g in the middle) and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Tap either icon and you’ll go to Google or Wikipedia in the NOOK’s browser and see the results of your search there.
Page 118 The toolbar will also vanish if you don’t tap anything on it for 10 seconds. NOTE If you’ve disabled the NOOK Tablet’s browser (page 325), you won’t be able to search for text via Google or Wikipedia. ChaPTer 4...
Page 119 Handling Notes When you tap the notes icon on the Text Selection toolbar, a note-writing screen appears. You’ve got up 512 characters, so you can be more expansive than when using Twitter, with its 140—character limit. You can’t write the Great American Novel in the text box, though—or even the Great American Short Story.
Page 120 To read the note, tap it. If you then want to edit it, tap Edit. You go back to the note-writing screen. Want to do more with the note, such as changing its color? There’s a simple way to do it. Tap the highlighted text (not the note icon), and a screen appears with these options: • View Note.
Page 121 NOTE Make sure that you just the note—don’t hold your finger on it. If you press too long, you’ll either see the text enlarged in a bubble, or you’ll bring up the Text Selection toolbar. • Remove Note. Deletes the note but keeps the text highlighted • Remove Highlight.
Page 122: Searching In Books
Searching in Books One of the most useful things you can do on your NOOK Tablet is search for a word or phrase in it. Try that with a printed book! You have two convenient ways to do it—the Reading Tools menu or the Text Selection toolbar.
Page 123 To search using the Reading Tools menu, bring up the menu by tapping any- where in the center of the screen; then tap Find. A search box and the keyboard appear. Type your search word or term, and then tap the Search button. TIP ...
Page 124: Reading Mode And Zooming In On Images
Or you may just be in the mood for some widescreen reading—you renegade! No matter the reason, all you have to do is turn your NOOK so the longest side is at the bottom, and your NOOK automatically orients the book that way. Meanwhile, a small lock icon appears in the right corner of the screen and stays there for a few seconds.
Page 125 For example, you’ll never see the Home screen in landscape mode. If you put the NOOK into landscape mode while reading a book, when you go back to the Home screen, sure enough, it’s vertically oriented.
Page 126 When you’re viewing graphics or photos, the NOOK gives you an awesome power—the power to zoom. Tap the picture twice to zoom in. Tap the Close but- ton at upper right to return to the normal view. If you want to make sure your NOOK...
Page 127: Video Inside Books
Video Inside Books Reading a book on the NOOK Tablet is more than a text-based experience; you can enjoy videos embedded in books, too. When you come across a video, tap its triangle to play it. Control the video using the usual controls at bottom for stopping and resuming, and dragging the bar to go forward or backward.
Page 128: Tapping Links
When you buy books for your NOOK Tablet, they’re in a format called EPUB. NOOK books you borrow and lend are in that format as well. But your NOOK is a do-everything device when it comes to eReading, and it can handle more than EPUB books—it can read PDF files as well.
Page 129: Reading Magazines
You typically get PDF files by copying them to your NOOK from your computer, as described on page 282. NOTE When you tap a PDF in your Library to read it, you’ll be asked whether you want to open it in Quickoffice Lite (page 273) or the Reader. The Reader has more reading features than Quickoffice Lite, so it’s your best bet.
Page 130 You can read a magazine in two different views: • Page View. In this view, the magazine looks exactly like the printed ver- sion of the magazine, including the page layout, photos and graphics, and advertising. • ArticleView. In this view, you see only the text of articles, with no layout, photographs, graphics, or advertising to get in your way.
Page 131 You can use regular (portrait) or landscape mode when reading a magazine. Depending on the magazine’s layout, one or the other may look better. Photo spreads or the beginning of highly designed articles often look better in land- scape than portrait mode, as do certain photographs. In Page View, text may be small and difficult to read.
Page 132 Magazines also have their own specialized Reading Tools menu. Tap the center of the screen to make it appear. It doesn’t have the full complement of tools you’ll find in the Reading Tools menu for books—no sharing, no changing the display.
Page 133 There’s also a Table of Contents icon. Tap it to see the magazine’s table of con- tents, which lists every article, along with its title and part of the article’s first sentence. To jump to the article, tap its listing. In the table of contents, tap the Bookmarks icon to see any bookmarks you’ve placed in the magazine.
Page 134 Using ArticleView When you’re getting down to serious article reading, you may want to use ArticleView. Although you won’t see the layout or pictures, the text is larger and appears in a long, scrollable window—no distractions. You can also adjust the text size and font in ArticleView, something you can’t do in Page View.
Page 135 To use ArticleView, when you’re in Page View, tap the ArticleView button at the top of the screen to open the scrollable text window. The entire article is in that window, so you don’t have to turn pages. Sometimes there’ll be a photo or graphic at the very beginning of the article, but apart from that, there are no pictures.
Page 136: Reading Newspapers
Reading Tools menu. You open a newspaper in the same way you do a book or a magazine—by tapping its cover. The NOOK newspaper won’t look like its print counterpart. Instead of laid-out newspaper pages, you’ll see scrollable lists of stories.
Page 137 NOTE everything The NOOK version of a newspaper may not include that’s in the paper-based version. It may not have all the photos, comics, or puzzles, for example. Tap any story to read it. Navigate through the story just as you do in a book, by swiping your finger or tapping the page edges.
Page 138: Reading Comic Books
Reading Tools (page 83) the same way. The Text Selection toolbar doesn’t work, however. NOTE The NOOK Color originally did not have the ability to read comic books. But an upgrade issued in late 2011 and early 2012 gave it that ability. ChaPTer 4...
Page 141: Reading Nook Kids Books
A NOOK Kids book can also read itself aloud, or, as mentioned earlier, you can record your own voice doing the reading. What could be more comforting to your child when you’re not around?
Page 142: Buying A Nook Kids Book
Buying a NOOK Kids Book A NOOK Kids book can have any number of features, such as inter- activity or the ability to record your voice reading the book to your child. Not all kids’ books have all the avail- able features.
Page 143 When you browse the Kids section of the NOOK Store, look for the Read and Play and Read to Me sections. The Read and Play section has books that are interactive, and the Read to Me section has books that will read themselves to your kids.
Page 144: Reading A Nook Kids Book
Reading a NOOK Kids Book Open a NOOK Kids book as you do any other book—tap its cover. The book opens to landscape mode, so turn the NOOK to match its orientation. On the right-hand side of the screen you see the book cover, and on the left you find square buttons, letting you choose in which mode to open the book—Read by...
Page 145 You can also zoom in on pictures by pinching out, as you normally do on the NOOK. When you’re zoomed in you can also move the page around to get a better look at the picture you’ve zoomed in on, for example, moving it toward the center of the screen.
Page 146 NOTE You can also enlarge text by pinching out, but when you enlarge text in this way, you don’t get to play the audio track. You can play the audio track only if you double-tap the text to enlarge it. Strange but true.
Page 147 If you’d prefer to have the book read aloud to your child, tap the Read to Me or Read and Play button when you open the book. (Not all books have activities; if you open one that doesn’t, there’s no Read and Play button.) readIng nooK KIdS BooKS...
Page 148 When you’re reading a NOOK Kids book, the Reading Tools menu doesn’t work as it does in typical NOOK books. Tapping the center of the page does nothing. But if you tap the small up arrow at the bottom of the screen, you see a navi- gation toolbar with thumbnails of every page in the book.
Page 149: Record Reading A Nook Kids Book For Your Kids
It’s an unfortunate fact of parenting that you can’t always be there to read to your kids when you want to be there. The NOOK offers the next best thing—the ability to record yourself reading a NOOK Kids book, so that you child can listen to you reading the book to her when you’re not there.
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Page 151 NOTE If you’re recording yourself reading a book and for some reason you switch away from the book, for example to read another book, the NOOK automatically saves your recording. For details about editing a recording, see page 137. Keep recording yourself until you’ve finished recording the entire book, or until you want to stop recording for now.
Page 152 TIP Unlike the audio track that comes with a NOOK Kids book, your recording is not saved as part of the book itself. Instead, it’s saved as a separate audio file in the device’s My Files section. For details about how to handle that recording, and even listen to it separately from the book itself, see page 139.
Page 153: Editing Or Deleting A Recording
• Edit Recording. Sends you to the first page of the book with the Re-record, Play, and Done buttons visible. • Change Picture. Takes you to a window where you can choose a new pic- ture for the recording. readIng nooK KIdS BooKS...
Page 154 So follow these tips, listening experience. and they should hear you loud and clear: • Hold your NOOK between a foot and a • Speak slowly and distinctly. Most people foot and a half from your face. That’s the talk too quickly when they record audio.
Page 155: Backing Up Your Recordings
NOTE Your NOOK Tablet stores your recordings on its internal storage, not on an SD card if you’ve installed one. Why should you care? If you ever erase all of your NOOK’s content and deregis- ter it (see page 44) you can copy the files to your computer so that you’ll always...
Page 156 Back these up to a personal computer if you want to preserve them. If you want to listen to them on your NOOK Tablet’s Media Player, tap any folder, and then look for any files that end in .m4a—1.m4a, 2.m4a, and so on. Tap any of the recordings.
Page 159: Buying Books, Magazines, And Newspapers And
ParT Buying, Borrowing, and Managing Your Library CHAPTER 6 Buying Books, Magazines, and Newspapers and Managing Your Library CHAPTER 7 Borrowing and Lending Books with LendMe and Your Local Library...
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Page 161 When you buy a book, newspaper, or magazine, it’s available not just on your NOOK, but also to a NOOK app if you have one on another smartphone or tablet, as well as on a personal computer. See page 177 for details.
Page 162: Browsing And Searching For Books In The Nook Store
Books in the NOOK Store To get to the NOOK Store, tap Shop from the Quick Nav bar, or tap a Shop icon if you’ve placed it on one of the panels in your Home screen. You go straight to the NOOK Store.
Page 163 TIP Here’s another quick way to find books to buy—tap the Books media shortcut toward the bottom of your Home screen. The screen that appears shows you not just books you’ve recently been reading, but also a link for browsing the B&N top 100–selling books. Tap Books, and you come to a page with a scrollable list of categories at the top (Fiction &...
Page 164 Tap the book to see more information about it (for details, see page 152). TIP No matter where you are in the NOOK Store, you can get to the store’s opening screen, its front door. Tap the icon of the house at the top left of the screen.
Page 165 You can even change the way the list looks. Tap the down arrow at top right, and a drop-down list appears that lets you display the books in a grid instead of a list, or lets you see the books in list form with small icons or large icons. Searching for Books If you’re on a more targeted mission than leisurely browsing—if there’s a par- ticular book, author, or topic you’re interested in—tap in a search term (or a few...
Page 166 Tap any to launch it again. TIP The NOOK Store has many, many books you can download and read for free, ranging from the classics from authors like Charles Dickens and Jane Austen to reference books and contemporary novels. You won’t find them in any one category, though. So if you’re looking for free books, search for “free books for nook”...
Page 167: Sampling And Buying Books
Sampling and Buying Books Now that you’re done searching and browsing, it’s time to take the plunge and buy a book. As you’re browsing or searching, you’ll see a green button next to any book you can buy, marked with the price. If there’s no green button, then you’ve already bought the book, and you instead see a gray label with the word “Purchased”...
Page 168 You can buy the book by tapping the green button with the price on it anytime— but you don’t have to commit yet. Say you want more information before you’re ready to buy. Rather than tapping the green button, tap anywhere else in the book description.
Page 169 TIP If you think you may want to buy the book at some point but not just yet, add it to your NOOK wish list by tapping “Add to Wishlist” on the Overview Tab. You can get to the list at any point when you tap the My Account button in the upper-right corner of the Shop (page 179).
Page 170 B&N terms of conduct. It can be tough sifting through the useful and useless reviews, so the NOOK has thoughtfully given you a tool to help find the useful ones. Toward the top of the screen there’s a Most Helpful drop-down menu that lets you view reviews starting with the most helpful, the most recent, the highest ratings, or the lowest ratings.
Page 171 • Editorial Reviews. Want to know what professional reviewers have said about the book? Tap this tab, and if there are any professional reviews, you’ll see them here. Sampling Books Say you’ve gone through all this material and you’re still not quite sure you want to buy.
Page 172 What if the sample you’ve downloaded isn’t sufficient for you to make a buying decision, and you want to read even more? Head over to your closest Barnes & Noble store. When you’re in a B&N store, you get an hour of reading any NOOK book for free. ChaPTer 6...
Page 173 Shop set up as is, then when you tap the Confirm button, the book downloads, and the credit card you had on file when you registered the NOOK is charged. If you’ve told the Shop to first ask you to enter your B&N account password before...
Page 174: Browsing And Buying Magazines And Newspapers
Browsing and Buying Magazines and Newspapers You browse, search for, and buy magazines and newspaper from the NOOK Store the same way you do books. At the top level of the store, just tap Magazines or Newspapers instead of Books and start browsing. Same for searching.
Page 175: Using The Library To Manage Your Books And Periodicals
• When you buy a magazine or newspaper, you can buy a single issue (the current one), or else subscribe to the periodical. • New NOOK customers can get free 14-day subscriptions to magazines and newspapers. Using the Library to Manage...
Page 176 • All the books, newspapers, magazines, and other materials you bought from the NOOK Store. • Books you’ve borrowed from NOOK Friends or your local library. (See Chapter 7 for details.) • Files such as music files, Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF files, and books in the EPUB format that you’ve transferred to your...
Page 177 • Newspapers shows all the newspapers you’ve bought from the NOOK Store. • Apps shows all the apps on your NOOK. Not only does it show the apps that come preloaded, such as for email and Netflix, but also all the apps that you’ve downloaded.
Page 178 The Content Area and Badges The content area is where you’ll spend most of your time in the Library. After all, that’s the whole reason you’re there. Using it is straightforward: Tap a book or periodical you want to read, an app you want to run, and so on, depending upon what area of the Library you’re in.
Page 179 Books that you’ve copied to your NOOK Tablet’s SD card don’t have badges on them. However, they have a small NOOK icon in their lower-right corner to show that they’re stored on your SD card. Nifty Options for Items in Your Library To read a book or periodical, or to run an app, just tap it.
Page 180 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com NOTE When you press and hold on an item, the menu shows you only appropriate choices—for example, Read, Add to Shelf, and other bookish options don’t show up when you hold your finger on an app, and Open doesn’t appear when you hold your finger on a book. • View details.
Page 181 161 for details.) • Remove from Shelf. Lets you remove it from a shelf. • Archive. Moves it off of your NOOK, but still keeps it accessible whenever you want. See page 171 for details. • Delete. Deletes the item from your NOOK. Be careful when choosing this, because unlike with archiving, you can’t retrieve the item if you change...
Page 182 • Change the display. Gives you control over how the items are displayed. Out of the box, the NOOK displays them on a grid of shelves, with large pictures and very little detail about each item—for example, in Books, just the book cover.
Page 183 If you buy enough books or periodicals (which of course you do—why else do you have a NOOK?) you may find that the Library’s organization options aren’t enough. What if you want to browse your collection of literary novels, mystery novels written by women, or books about footwear in 17th century France? (OK, maybe that last collection isn’t big enough to...
Page 184 140 characters for messages in Twitter, that should be no problem. NOTE The NOOK automatically creates a shelf for you called Favorites. Put items in that shelf the same way you put items in any shelf that you create.
Page 185 Tap the Edit button next to the shelf where you want to put items. A ➌ screen appears with all the items in your Library. Tap the box next to any item you want to put on the shelf. A checkmark appears next to it. If you’ve already got items in the shelf, those items also have checkmarks.
Page 186 You can also remove an entire shelf. When you tap the Edit button next to the shelf you want to delete, tap Remove. This removes the Shelf, but all the items in it remain on your NOOK. ChaPTer 6...
Page 187 Archiving Books and Periodicals Your NOOK Tablet has plenty of storage space, and if you add an SD card, you get even more. Still, there may come a time when you begin to run out of space— or feel as if you are. In that case, you can archive books and periodicals. When you archive them, the books are still stored in your Barnes &...
Page 188: Using The Wishlist
NOTE The wish list on your NOOK is separate from the wish list on your BN.com account. The wish list on your BN.com account includes printed books and periodicals for your NOOK, and other items you can buy on BN.com, while your NOOK’s wish list only has items for your NOOK.
Page 189 To add a book, newspaper, or magazine to your wish list, when you tap its cover and come to the Details page, simply tap the box next to “Add to Wishlist” so the box turns green. It’s been added to your wish list. To view your wish list, go to the top screen of the Shop.
Page 190: Accessing Content On Your Sd Card And Nook Tablet's Built-In Storage
The Library also offers an easy way to view files and content you’ve transferred to your SD card or to the NOOK’s built-in storage—use the Library’s My Files feature. (See Chapter 11 for details about how to transfer files to the SD card.) To get there, tap the “My stuff”...
Page 191 You can change the folder structure on your SD Card—deleting folders, renaming them, adding them, and so on. You do that not on your NOOK, but by connecting your NOOK to your PC or Mac using the USB cable (page 23). From your PC or Mac, you can then edit the folders just as you can any folder on your computer.
Page 192: The Library On Bn.com, Pcs, Macs, And Mobile Devices
The covers are plain gray, and there’s a small NOOK icon on the lower right. You can put them in shelves and search for them, just like other books. But you can’t archive them or recommend them to others.
Page 193 My NOOK button at the top of the page. Once you’re logged in, click the Library tab, and you’ll come to your NOOK Library. From here you can manage books, read them if you’ve downloaded a NOOK reader, recommend them, and so on.
Page 194: Managing Your Nook Account
Managing your NOOK Account Every NOOK has a NOOK account on it, with important information—your credit card number, any gift cards you’ve received, and so on. If you want to change your credit card, view your wish list, add a gift card, or look at items you’ve recently viewed, your NOOK account is the place to go.
Page 195 Tap this option, and from the screen that appears, tap Change Default Credit Card to change the credit card you use when you buy things on the NOOK. You can have only one credit card on your NOOK.
Page 197: Borrowing And Lending Books With Lendme And Your Local Library
Borrowing and lending may strike you as an odd concept when it comes to NOOK books, because there’s no physical object to hand over or take in. In fact, though, an eBook is a physical object of sorts, even though it’s made up of bits...
Page 198: Lending And Borrowing Books With Lendme
DRM (see the tip on page 81), while physical books aren’t. DRM essentially links a book to your use on the NOOK Tablet, or any NOOK reader, such as one for a PC, smartphone, or tablet. So you can’t simply lend any NOOK book to anyone, or borrow any NOOK book from anyone.
Page 199 TIP You may think that all books you can download for free from the NOOK Store are lendable. After all, they’re free. That’s not the case, though; some free books are blocked from lending. So if you’re planning to download a free book and want to lend it out, check to see whether there are multiple editions of the book.
Page 200: Seeing Your List Of Lendable Books
Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com • You can lend a book only if you’ve registered your NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color. The lending feature doesn’t work on an unregistered NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color. • Someone borrowing a book must have a Barnes & Noble account with a valid credit card.
Page 201 Depending on whether you’ve lent and borrowed books before, you’ll see the following sashes: • LendMe. As explained on page 182, you can lend this book. • Borrowed. A book you’ve borrowed from someone. Tap to read it. When you read it, a Buy Now button appears at the top of the screen, in case you decide you want to buy the book at any point while you’re reading it.
Page 202 • Lent to others. All the books that are currently on loan to other people. The one last place to go to see what books you can lend is NOOK Friends (Chapter 14). In the NOOK Friends app, tap LendMe. There you’ll see four shelves: • My lendable books.
Page 203: Lending A Book
NOTE In the My Lendable books section, new books that you can lend have a New badge, rather LendMe. Fear not; you can lend any books in the My Lendable books section, even ones that sport a New badge. • Friends’ books to borrow. A great place to go if you’re looking to borrow books.
Page 204 There are three—count ’em, three—ways you can get to a screen that lets you lend a book to a NOOK Friend. Here’s how to get to the screen, and what to do once you get there: • Launch the NOOK Friends app (page 362) and tap the LendMe button.
Page 205 However, if you want to send her an offer to borrow a book via email or Facebook, you must make sure that you can contact her on your NOOK. So before making an offer to lend her a book, put her in your Contacts list, (page 392) or make sure she’s a Facebook friend, and then link your NOOK...
Page 206 Select LendMe. The same screen appears as when you make an offer to lend a book from the NOOK Friends app. • Double-tap a book’s cover in the Library or on the Daily Shelf or Home Screen, and the details page opens.
Page 207 Sometimes a friend will ask to borrow a book as well. How does he know what books you’ve got to borrow? As explained on page 374, the NOOK Friends app shares a list of all the books you have available for lending to your friends (and vice versa).
Page 208 You’ll find out when a friend has requested to borrow a book in any of three ways: • You get a notification in the Notification bar. Tap the Notification bar when you get the request, and you’ll see the note “Your friends would like to borrow a book.”...
Page 209 • The book shows up on the Requests shelf in the LendMe section of the NOOK Friends app. It’s the bottom shelf, so scroll down to get there. Tap the book and a screen appears with details about who’s made the request and which book he wants to borrow.
Page 210: Borrowing A Book
So you’ll want to take advantage of book borrowing on your NOOK, especially since it’s so easy to do. As with lending a book, there are two ways to borrow a book—ask a friend to borrow a book, and agree to borrow one when a friend recommends a book and offers to lend it to you.
Page 211 Suppose you want to borrow a book from a friend. NOOK Friends is the way you do it, so make sure anyone from whom you want to borrow a book is a NOOK Friend. Then open the NOOK Friends app by pressing the NOOK button, select- ing Apps, and tapping NOOK Friends.
Page 212 Want to see some details about any of the books on the list? On the bookshelf, tap See All. A vertically scrolling list appears. Tap a book cover, and you see the usual details screen. If you decide you want to borrow it, go back to the vertical list and tap Borrow to request it.
Page 213 If you’ve got lots of friends with plenty of lendable books (lucky you!), it may take quite a while to scroll through them all. So if you have a specific book in mind that you’re looking to borrow, head to the bottom of the LendMe screen and type a book title or author.
Page 214 So there’s a simple way to see a list of all the books a specific NOOK Friend has available for lending. In the NOOK Friends app, tap All Friends at top right. Then tap LendMe to the right of any friend whose list of lendable books you’d like to see.
Page 215 If you get the request via email, click the View My Offer button and you’re sent to your Barnes & Noble account on the Web, where you can accept or decline the offer. (You may need to log into the account first.) Similarly, when you click on the offer on Facebook, you’re also sent to your Barnes &...
Page 216 To see all the books that people have offered to lend you, go to the NOOK Friends app, tap LendMe, and go to the “Offers from friends” bookshelf. Tap to accept the offer or decline it. Returning Books Early When you’ve borrowed a book from someone, he can’t read it for the 14 days that you have it.
Page 217: Borrowing Books From The Library
So don’t be surprised if you can’t find your favorite book for the NOOK at the library, or if there are fewer copies for the NOOK than there are for the printed version.
Page 218 • You need a library card to borrow books. Want to borrow a NOOK book from the New York Public Library? You need a New York Public Library card. You can’t borrow books from libraries that let only residents borrow books if you’re not a resident.
Page 219 Different libraries organize their eBook collections differently; you may be able to search and browse or only one of the two. Look for the NOOK section. If there seems to be one, look for books in EPUB and PDF formats. Those are the ones you can borrow.
Page 220 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Double-click the file. The book opens in Adobe Digital Editions. If you ➋ want, you can read the book in that program. ChaPTer 7 www.Ebook777.com...
Page 221 Connect your NOOK Tablet to your computer. A screen on your computer ➌ appears, telling you that you need to authorize the NOOK to use Adobe Digital Editions. Click Authorize Device. After a moment, your NOOK is authorized. A new shelf appears on the Adobe Digital Editions screen titled My NOOK.
Page 222 Remember, you can borrow the book for only 14 days. After that, it automati- cally gets returned to the library. NOTE Even when you have the book on your NOOK Tablet, you can continue to read it on your computer using Adobe Digital Editions. ChaPTer 7...
Page 225: Part Iv Apps, Movies
Apps, Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photographs, and Files CHAPTER 8 Streaming Media: Pandora, Netflix, and Hulu Plus CHAPTER 9 Downloading and Using Apps CHAPTER 10 Music, Pictures, Video, and Documents CHAPTER 11 Transferring Files Between Your NOOK Tablet and Your Computer...
Page 227: Streaming Media: Pandora, Netflix, And Hulu Plus
Understanding Streaming Media Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Pandora all use a technique called streaming, which means the movies, TV shows, and music aren’t stored on your NOOK Tablet or played from there. Instead, they live on big computers called servers owned by those services, which send the video wirelessly to your NOOK Tablet—when it’s...
Page 228: Using Netflix
Using Netflix Netflix is a two-pronged video service—with it, you can have DVDs delivered to your home or stream videos straight to your computer, NOOK Tablet, or any other device that supports the use of Netflix. Because it’s a two-pronged service, it can be easy to get confused about what you’re buying exactly when you subscribe to Netflix, and what can be streamed...
Page 229 To watch movies or TV shows on your NOOK Color using Netflix, go to the Apps screen, and then tap the Netflix icon. You’ll come to a login screen. Tap in your login information, or if you haven’t yet subscribed to Netflix, tap the Netflix.com link to set one up.
Page 230 Watching a Movie or TV Show When you tap a movie or TV show, the NOOK’s orientation changes to landscape, the movie or show starts playing, and you’ll briefly see a series of controls and information onscreen. To make the controls go away, tap the screen.
Page 231 Here’s what each does: Play/Pause Title Time Remaining Time Slider Back Choose Audio Display Elapsed and Subtitles Subtitles • Title. Shows the title of the movie or TV show, including the season and episode number if it’s a TV show. • Play/Pause.
Page 232 To get around the problem, plug headphones or external speakers into the headphone jack. Also, the NOOK Tablet’s built-in speakers are monaural rather than stereo, so if you want stereo sound, you must use external speakers or headphones.
Page 233 STreaMIng MedIa: Pandora, neTFlIx, and hulu PluS...
Page 234 Managing Your Netflix Queue There’s one thing missing in the NOOK Tablet’s Netflix app—the ability to man- age your queue or Netflix account. As explained before, you can add movies and TV shows to your queue, or remove them, but that’s the extent of what you can...
Page 235: Using Hulu Plus
Hulu Plus lets you view movies as well as television shows, but it has a very limited selection of them. Netflix is far better for movie watching than Hulu Plus. Hulu offers both free and paid services, but on the NOOK Tablet, you can only use the for-pay version.
Page 236 To watch TV or video on your NOOK Color using Netflix, go to the Apps screen, and then tap the Hulu Plus icon. You’ll come to a login screen. Tap in your login information, or if you haven’t yet subscribed to Hulu Plus, tap the icon to sign up.
Page 237 • History. Lists what you’ve watched on Hulu Plus. You can rewatch a show from here as well. • More. Gives you access to your account information, a search tool, a favor- ites list, and a logout screen. At the bottom of the screen you see two buttons: a Back button for returning to where you just were, and a Menu button that brings up the same set of options as when you tap the More button.
Page 238 Tap the TV or Movies icon, and you come to a list of TV shows or movies to watch. At the very top of the screen are navigation buttons for TV, Movies, Queue, and More. Just below those icons you see a highlighted TV show or movie, and then beneath that all the movies and TV shows you can watch.
Page 239 When you tap a movie or TV show, the NOOK’s orientation changes to land- scape. If you tap a TV show, you may see an ad or two before it starts, and sometimes while you’re watching as well. (Don’t try to fast-forward through the ads—you can’t do it.) Then the TV or movie starts playing, and you briefly see...
Page 240 Here are the controls and information you’ll find: Back Button Title Options Button Time Elapsed Pause/ Slider Bar Time Play Remaining • Title. Displays the title of the movie or TV show. • Play/Pause. Plays the movie or TV show or pauses it. • Time elapsed.
Page 241 More Options for Handling Movies and TV When you’re browsing through TV and movies and you tap the down arrow next to any video, a series options appears. Tap the arrow, and here are your choices: • Watch. Starts playing the TV show or movie.
Page 242 • Series info. Takes you to a screen where you can tap buttons to see more episodes of the show, view clips of the show or movie, add the episode to your queue, and put it in your Favorites by tapping the heart button. If you tap the Episodes button, you’ll see more episodes of the show.
Page 243 For legal and licensing reasons, you may not be able to view all the video choices on your NOOK Tablet that you can on the Web. So you may come across an occasional TV show that tells you that you’ll have to watch the show on the Web, not on your NOOK Tablet.
Page 244: Using Pandora
And what if it played you music that you’ve never heard before, but that fit right in with your tastes? Stop wishing. You’ve got Pandora built into the NOOK Tablet. This free, fabulous music service may forever change the way you think about and listen to music.
Page 245 But it’s expanded into Android as well, and now you can use it on your NOOK Tablet. Head to Apps and tap the Pandora icon, and then sign up for an account. If you already have an account, just sign in once you’ve downloaded and installed it.
Page 246 NOTE If you switch to something else on your NOOK Tablet while you’re listening to music on Pandora—reading a book, say—Pandora keeps the music playing. To make it stop, tap the small Pandora icon in the Notification bar, and then tap the Pandora notification that appears.
Page 247 The middle button lets you bookmark a song or artist. You can’t use these bookmarks on your NOOK Tablet, though; instead, you have to head to the Web and click Profile. From there, you can see the artists or songs you’ve bookmarked, and use them in a variety of ways, such...
Page 249: Downloading And Using Apps
Just as with all tablets and smartphones, the NOOK lets you download apps to do all kinds of nifty things, from playing music to playing games or keeping track of your diet.
Page 250: Running Apps
Barnes & Noble. You also lose all of the eReader capabili- ties described in this book. Barnes & Noble also has made it very difficult to root the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color. For details, see Chapter 17.
Page 251: Managing And Deleting Apps
Managing and Deleting Apps Got an app that you love so much you want it always to be just a tap away? Then put it on your Home screen. You can do that and plenty more, including deleting it, adding it to a Library Shelf, and other nifty things as well. To do it, hold your finger on an app and from the screen that appears, choose the following: • Open.
Page 252: Built-In Nook Apps
NOTE Depending on when you bought your NOOK Color, it may not come with Netflix or Hulu Plus on it, and may not be able to run Hulu Plus. See the tip on page 49 for more info on how you can get these apps onto your NOOK Color.
Page 253 • Crossword. You have a NOOK Tablet, so no doubt you’re a book lover. There’s a good chance that you’re a crossword lover as well, so try out this app. Fight the urge to tap the Hint button—that’s cheating! • Sudoku. With your NOOK Tablet, a good Sudoku puzzle is always within easy reach.
Page 254: Getting Apps In The Nook Store
• Chess. Want to play chess but don’t have a partner nearby? You’ve got one on your NOOK Tablet. To play, drag a piece to the spot where you want to move it. It’s a nice app for a quick chess game, but it doesn’t let you play online against others, and doesn’t include extras like changing the difficulty...
Page 255 NOTE On the main screen of the NOOK Store, you’ll also find lists of apps, which change over time —“Top Picks in Apps,” “What’s New in NOOK Apps,” and possibly others.
Page 256 At some point when browsing the subcategories, you’ll see a list of all apps in the subcategory. Scroll through them until you see an app you’re interested in, and then tap the app for more details. Tap an app, and you come to a screen that includes the name of the app, ver- sion number, app maker, description (supplied by the maker), price (or a button labeled Free), and a Share button.
Page 257 TIP When deciding whether to pay for and download an app, be careful about using the ratings and reviews as your guide. For example, if there are only a handful of reviews and they’re all positive, the developers (or their friends) may be doing the rating. If there are dozens of reviews or more, it’s less likely that the developers and their friends are behind them all.
Page 258 Tabs across the top let you read individual reviews and see screenshots. You can filter reviews in multiple ways, including those rated most helpful by others, the most recent reviews, and so on. Just tap the drop-down menu in the upper right of the screen.
Page 259: Five Great Apps To Download
Most apps on the NOOK Tablet are for-pay rather than free, even if the normal Android version is free. For example, the popular Angry Birds game costs $2.99 on the NOOK Tablet but is free for other Android devices. And the popular Words with Friends costs $2.99 on the NOOK Tablet, even though it’s free on Android.
Page 260 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com TIP Geeks will want to know that the underlying technology that allows Pulse to accomplish all this magic is RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, a format that lets websites and blogs publish updates, and apps like Pulse grab them. Tap any story to read it.
Page 261 There’s a lot more to Pulse as well. It’s free and it gives you great sources of information, so if you’re a news junkie, or even if you’re not, give it a try. downloadIng and uSIng aPPS...
Page 262 No matter where you capture or input information, it’s available on every device on which you install Evernote. So if you grab a web page from your PC and put it into a notebook, that information is available on your NOOK Tablet, and vice versa.
Page 263 The upshot of all this? Evernote is the best app you’ll find for capturing informa- tion and making sense of it all. Fandango Wonder what’s on at your local movie theater tonight? Like to find out what other people have thought about the movies? Want to buy tickets before you Fandango does all that, plus more, and it does it for free.
Page 264 Words with Friends You’ve got a NOOK, so you’re clearly a word person. If your love extends to word games, and you want to play with other word lovers, then you’ll want to get the popular Words with Friends app. (It’s a for-pay app, not a free one.) It’s a game similar to Scrabble that you play against friends from Facebook, your...
Page 265 Traveling to a city for business or pleasure? Then you’ll want to get the free City Guides from Trip Advisor. There are separate ones for different cities, so in the NOOK Store, type the name of the city you plan to visit along with the words City Guide...
Page 266: Troubleshooting Apps
In a perfect world, apps would never misbehave. Unfortunately, it’s not a perfect world. An app may quit the moment you launch it, or cause your NOOK Tablet to restart, or do any number of odd things. If that happens, try these steps: • Launch the app again.
Page 269: Music, Pictures, Video, And Documents
Getting Files into Your NOOK Before you can listen to music, view movies or pictures, or read documents, you have to get them into your NOOK Tablet. You can get them there in three different ways: • Via email. Someone can send you the files via email, and you can save them on your NOOK Tablet (page 339).
Page 270: Playing Music And Audio Files
TIP When you copy files from your computer to your NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color, it’s best to copy them to the microSD card if you’ve installed one (page 277). You can store only 1 GB of non–Barnes & Noble content on the device’s internal storage, so if you have lots of pictures, video, and other content, you can run out of storage space.
Page 271 You can also browse the music files on your NOOK Tablet manually, and then listen to any that you choose. To do that, in the Library, tap “My stuff”➝My Files and tap My NOOK or Memory Card, depending on where you’ve stored the files. Assuming you’ve stored your music files in the Music folder, tap My Files➝Music.
Page 272 • List. Lists individual songs, and includes their titles, singer, and length. They’re organized alphabetically, by the name of the file. Scroll through them in the usual way. There’s an even faster way: As you scroll, a scroll icon appears on screen. Drag it up and down to scroll faster. To the left of each song you’ll see a re-sort button.
Page 273 • CD. Organizes songs by album. It includes artwork (if available), and lists the name and artists. Tap an album to see all the tracks on it. Tap a track to play it. • Playlist. Shows all your playlists. Even if you haven’t created a playlist, one will be there—Recently Added—which shows all the songs you’ve recently added.
Page 274 Playing mode, and the music plays. If artwork is available, it takes up most of the screen. NOTE The NOOK Tablet’s speakers play only mono sound, and at times can be hard to hear. Plug headphones or external speakers into it, though, and you’ll get full, rich stereo sound. ChaPTer 10...
Page 275 Switch to Browse Mode Album Art Shuffle Search Playlist Repeat Music Controls Slider At the bottom of the screen you’ll see the usual controls for playing and pausing music, moving to the next track, and previous track and scrolling through the track.
Page 276 More Options for Playing Music When you’re browsing for music, press and hold your finger on a song or album, and a menu pops up with these choices: • Play. Plays the song or album. • Add to playlist. Adds it to an existing playlist, or lets you create a new playlist and add it to that one.
Page 277 • Delete. D eletes the song. • Search. Searches for the song on the Internet using the browser or on the Music Player. Of course, you can do the same thing more easily by holding your finger on the song in the Music Player, but isn’t it nice to have other options? TIP ...
Page 278 Creating and Managing Playlists At first glance it’s tough to figure out how to create a playlist on your NOOK Tablet. There seems to be no button to tap to create one. It’s simple to do, though. As just detailed, hold your finger on a song or album, and then tap “Add to playlist”...
Page 279 To create a new playlist, tap New, type the name of the playlist you want to cre- ate, and then tap Save. The playlist is created, and it’ll contain the song you’ve just added. NOTE If you hold your finger on an album to create a new playlist, when you create the playlist, it’ll contain all the tracks from that album.
Page 280 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Keep adding songs to your playlist this way. To play a playlist, go to Browse mode, and then tap the Playlist icon to see a list of them. Press and hold your finger on any playlist, and from the menu that appears tap Play. The first song in the Playlist starts up in Now Playing mode.
Page 281 Listening to Podcasts and Audiobooks Your NOOK Tablet can play more than just music; it can also play podcasts and audiobooks, as long as they’re in a file format it can recognize. (For a list of audio file formats, see Table 10-1.)
Page 282 (www.audiobooks.com). Top-notch services that let you rent audiobooks rather than buy them. Table 10-1. The NOOK Tablet can play many, but not all music and audio files. The primary file type that’s missing from the list or Windows Media Audio (.wma) files.
Page 283: Using The My Media App For Viewing Photos And Playing Video
NOTE Why won’t the NOOK play .wma files? It’s an Android thing. The NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color are powered by Google’s Android operating system, and Android can’t play .wma files. Some Android devices, such as the Droid X2, can play .wma files, but that’s not because the capability has been built into Android.
Page 284 Tap a photo to view it. For a moment, you’ll see not just the photo, but also a row of icons across the bottom of the screen for doing things with the photo— cropping it, setting it as your wallpaper, and more. After the icons go away, you can make them come back by tapping the middle of the photo.
Page 285 Stop the slideshow by tapping the screen. • Wallpaper. Sets the current photo as your NOOK’s wallpaper. When you tap, a movable highlighted box appears inside your photo, representing the portion of the photo that will become your wallpaper. Move the box around until you’ve got the part of the photo you want to use as your wallpaper,...
Page 286 ChaPTer 10...
Page 287 • Right. Rotates the photo to the right 90 degrees. Each time you tap it, it rotates 90 more degrees. • Delete. Removes the photo from your NOOK. If you tap a video instead of a photo, it starts running in a video player. You’ll see the usual controls for playing, pausing, and moving through the video.
Page 288: Working With Office Documents
Table 10-2. The NOOK Tablet can view and play many but not all picture and video formats. PICTURE AND PHOTO FILES .jpg .gif .png .bmp VIDEO FILES FLV and F4V (Adobe Flash) .3gp .mkv .mp4 .m4v Working with Office Documents Your NOOK Tablet can do double-duty as a work tablet, letting you view Office documents including Word files (.doc, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm), Excel files,...
Page 289 TIP If you’ve downloaded files from the Web, you’ll find them on the NOOK Tablet’s built-in memory, not on its microSD card. Get to them by tapping My Files➝My Downloads. Tap any file, and it opens in an app built into the NOOK Tablet called Quickoffice Lite.
Page 290 If viewing documents isn’t enough for you, you can pay to upgrade to the Pro version, which costs $14.99. Download it from the NOOK Store, or tap the menu icon at the bottom of the screen and tap “Upgrade to Pro.”...
Page 293: Transferring Files Between Your Nook Tablet And Your Computer
NOTE The NOOK Color and $199 NOOK Tablet have 8 GB of built-in storage, not 16 GB. Installing an SD Card Most of the storage built into the NOOK is for Barnes & Noble content and for the NOOK’s Android-based operating system.
Page 294 If you haven’t installed a microSD card before, don’t fret—it’s a piece of cake. Here’s how: Put your NOOK face down on a clean surface. Look down at the bottom ➊ right of your NOOK near the curved notch for a gray diagonal lid labeled Nook.
Page 295 Pull the lid open gently with your fingertip and fold it against the back of ➋ the NOOK. You’ve exposed a small slot. Holding the card between your thumb and forefinger, with the logo side ➌ up, insert it gently into the slot. TranSFerrIng FIleS BeTween Your nooK TaBleT and Your CoMPuTer...
Page 296 Tap the Format Now button again, and the NOOK formats the card. (If you don’t get the alert telling you that the card needs to be formatted, don’t worry—that just means it’s already formatted and you’re ready to go.)
Page 297 .m4v NOTE Want to hear some real techie talk about your NOOK Tablet’s multimedia prowess? It sup- ports MPEG-4 Simple/Advanced Profile up to 1920x1080 pixels, and H.263 up to 352x288. It also supports H.264 Baseline/Main/High Profile up to 1920x1080 pixels, and WEBM VP8 up to 640x480 pixels. What does all that mean? If you have to ask, you don’t need to know.
Page 298: Transferring Files To Your Nook Tablet
NOTE When you unplug your NOOK from your PC or Mac, it takes a few seconds for the SD card to be ready to use. You’ll get a notification that it’s being prepared. Also, when you unplug it, you may hear a momentary musical chime—that’s just your NOOK telling you that all is right in the world, and...
Page 299 After you’ve connected it to your PC, launch Windows Explorer. Your NOOK now shows up as a removable disk, just like any USB drive. You can now use your NOOK as if it were any USB flash device—copying files to and from it, creating folders, and so on.
Page 300 If you haven’t installed an SD card, you’ll see only one new drive, labeled MyNOOK if you have a NOOK Tablet, and MyNOOKColor, if you have a NOOK Color. If you’ve installed an SD card, you’ll also see another drive, just labeled Removable Disk.
Page 301 Notification area, telling you that you’ve got a card in your NOOK. Tap it and a screen pops up reading “SD card inserted. Click to browse SD card content…” Tap this notification, and you arrive at the area of your Library that lets you browse the contents of the card.
Page 302: Finding Books Online To Transfer To Your Nook Tablet
Transferring with a Mac Just as with a PC, to transfer files to your NOOK from a Mac, connect your NOOK to your Mac using the micro USB cable that came with the NOOK. You may find that when you connect it, iPhoto immediately launches. Close it down;...
Page 303: Browsing And Managing Files On Your Nook Tablet
Browsing and Managing Files on your NOOK Tablet To browse the files on your NOOK Tablet, go to the Library, and tap “My stuff”➝My Files. You come to a screen that’s divided in two—on the left you find My NOOK, and on the right, Memory Card. Tap My NOOK to browse the fold- ers built into the NOOK’s main memory, and tap Memory Card to browse the...
Page 305: The Web And Email
ParT The Web and Email CHAPTER 12 Surfing the Web CHAPTER 13 Using Email...
Page 307: Chapter 12 Surfing The Web
How to do it all? That’s what this chapter is for. A Tour of the NOOK Tablet’s Browser To access the Web, press the NOOK button, and choose Web from the Quick Nav bar. The NOOK Tablet’s browser launches.
Page 308 Web. Fear not; you can easily turn it back on—turn to page 325 to learn how. The NOOK’s browser has plenty of goodies, much like those in a computer browser, including bookmarks, AutoComplete for web addresses, cookies, pass- word memorization, the ability to save pages…just about the whole nine yards.
Page 309 • Address bar. Here’s where you enter the URL—the web address—for a page you want to visit. • Bookmarks. Tap this button, and you’ll add the current page to your Bookmarks list and also be able to see pages you’ve visited frequently, and the history of your web browsing.
Page 310: The Address Bar
TIP There’s no forward button on the NOOK’s browser. So how do you go forward to a page you’ve already visited? Simple. Tap the Options menu and select Forward. The Address Bar The address bar is the box at the top of the browser where you type the URL of the website you want to visit.
Page 311 You may find it easier to type URLs if you rotate the NOOK 90 degrees. That way, the keys are much larger, and you’ll be able to see more of the URL as you type.
Page 312: Navigating A Web Page
You’ve got four ways to do so: • Rotate the NOOK. Turn it 90 degrees to the left or to the right. The NOOK changes the orientation of the website to fill the wider view, and while doing so, zooms in.
Page 313 • Use the two-finger spread. Put two fingers on the NOOK’s screen on the areas where you want to zoom in, and move your fingers apart. The web page stretches and zooms in. The more you spread, the greater the zoom.
Page 314: Tapping Links
NOOK. Tapping Links When it comes to links, the NOOK Tablet’s web browser works largely like any computer browser, except that you tap a link rather than click it. Tap the link, and you get sent to a new web page.
Page 315 But this is the NOOK, so there’s a lot more you can do with links than just tap- ping them. Hold your finger on a link, and a menu appears with these options: • Open.
Page 316: Multiple Windows
In fact, you may have multiple windows open without even knowing it. NOTE The NOOK Tablet uses Adobe Flash Player, so you can watch the Flash videos you find on websites such as YouTube and many others. To open a new window, tap the Options menu, and from the menu that appears, tap “New window.”...
Page 317 How to switch to another window? Tap the Menu button and tap windows. You see a list of all the browser windows you have open. Tap any you want to switch to. To close a window, tap the X button at its far right. To open a new window, tap the windows icon at the top of the screen.
Page 318: Bookmarks
Bookmarks Just as with computer-based browsers, the NOOK’s browser lets you save your favorite sites as bookmarks—sites you can easily visit again without having to retype their URLs. In fact, before you even use your browser, it has bookmarks for a few popular sites, including BN.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, and YouTube.com, among others.
Page 319 screen you’ll see the page you were on when you tapped the button, with the word “Add” on it. Tap it and the “Add bookmark” screen appears, with the name of the page you were on, and its address. Tap OK, or else edit the screen (for example, to change the title). Here you can edit the name or the actual URL of the bookmark.
Page 320 However, in some instances instead of seeing a thumbnail, you see a generic icon representing a Web site. The bookmarks pre-added to the NOOK all show up with the generic icons until you visit them; after you visit them they generally appear with thumbnails of the websites.
Page 321 • Open. Opens the bookmarked site in the current window. So let’s say you’re on www.google.com, you go to your bookmarks, and then hold your finger on the www.bn.com bookmark. Now, www.bn.com opens in the window where www.google.com had previously been open. • Open in new window.
Page 322: Most Visited And History Lists
When you go to your Bookmarks, you see two more ways to browse sites that you’ve been to before—“Most visited” and History. The NOOK Tablet keeps track of sites you’ve visited, and puts these two lists together based on that. They’re great ways, in addition to Bookmarks, to head back to sites you’ve visited before...
Page 323 ited” list shows the sites you’ve visited most often, with the most visited sites at the top. The History list shows all the sites you’ve visited, in the order you’ve visited them—today, yesterday, and so on. Just tap the corresponding tab to see the list.
Page 324 Using the Most Visited List The “Most visited” list works much like the Bookmarks list—tap the site you want to visit and you immediately get sent there. You’ll notice one difference between these lists and the Bookmarks list: The sites all have stars to the right of them, some gold, some gray.
Page 325 • Add bookmark is included in the “Most visited” menu so you can add the site to Bookmarks. It’s easier to simply tap the gray button to do this, but if you like your NOOK so much that you enjoy holding your finger on it, you can do it this way as well.
Page 326: Finding Text, Getting Page Information, And More
And when you’re on a page, you may be looking for more information about it. The NOOK browser can do all that and then some. To do it all, press your finger somewhere on the web page that’s not a graphic or link.
Page 327 The original version of the NOOK Color software gave you an additional option—the ability to copy text to the NOOK Clipboard. But when the NOOK Color software was updated in late 2011 and early 2012, that feature was taken away. The NOOK Tablet never had the feature. However, it’s possible that a software upgrade may make it available again.
Page 328 • Page info. Tap to see basic information about the page—title and web address. Tap Back to make the window disappear. • Settings. Here’s how you can change countless browser settings, including the size of the text displayed, privacy controls, and so on. See page 320 for details.
Page 329: Refreshing Pages, Going Forward, And More
Refreshing Pages, Going Forward, and More Two things appear to be missing on the NOOK Tablet’s browser that you’ll find on a computer’s browser—Forward and Refresh buttons. You may not see them, but there’s a simple way to go forward or to refresh a web page. Tap the Options menu, and then select Refresh to refresh the page, or Forward to go forward.
Page 330: Saving Online Images
When you’re browsing the Web, sooner or later you’ll come across a picture you’d like to save. For example, if a friend posts a picture from your birthday party on Facebook, you can save it on your NOOK Tablet and then share it with others.
Page 331 NOTE If the picture is also a link, the menu shows the usual options for bookmarking the link, saving the link, and so on. Viewing Downloaded Images When you download an image, you’ll get a brief alert that the file is download- ing.
Page 332 Tap any to open it in the Gallery. (If you haven’t yet downloaded any files from the Web, the My Downloads folder won’t show up.) You can also see the pictures there by connecting your NOOK to a PC or a Mac, and then browsing to My Files➝My Downloads folder on the NOOK. ChaPTer 12...
Page 333 Gallery by tapping it, to make sure it’s the file you want to delete. You can also delete the files by connecting your NOOK to your PC or Mac, and then using Windows Explorer on your PC or Finder on your Mac to delete the files. See page 287 for details.
Page 334: Web Pages Designed For Mobile Devices
There are a few things you can try if you come across a page that displays for a mobile device that doesn’t look good on your NOOK. Try changing the orientation; sometimes that works. You may also want to look around the page to see whether there’s a link you can click that will let you display the full version of a page, rather than the mobile version.
Page 335 SurFIng The weB...
Page 336: Online Privacy And Security
Online Privacy and Security Whether you browse the Web with a computer or with your NOOK Tablet, there are potential security and privacy dangers out there—cookies, pop-ups, and malicious websites. The NOOK browser, just like its big—brother browsers on computers, includes the tools you need to keep you safe and protect your pri- vacy when you browse the Web.
Page 337 While you’re in Privacy Settings, you can also delete all the cookies that have been put on your NOOK so far. Tap “Clear all cookie data.” You get a warning that you’re about to delete your cookies. Tap OK to clear them, or Cancel if you change your mind.
Page 338 You can always turn it on again. To delete all the informa- tion already stored on your NOOK, tap “Clear form data.” Next, scroll down to the Security Settings area and turn off the checkbox next to “Remember pass- words.”...
Page 339: Changing Your Home Page, Text Size, And More Settings
Size, and More Settings There are plenty of other things you can do on the settings page, many of which are too esoteric to bother with. Right out of the box, the NOOK Tablet has been configured very well. However, there are a few settings worth paying attention to in the Page Content settings: • Text size.
Page 340 When you visit a website with your NOOK, the site assumes you’re using a tablet, and so when possible displays a page suitable for displaying on the tablet.
Page 341: Disabling The Browser
Look Up feature in Reading Tools to search for terms using Google and Wikipedia. You also can’t watch the tutorial videos that come with the NOOK. And finally, you can’t search the Web with the search tool in the Quick Nav bar. All of these features depend on the browser.
Page 342 Press the NOOK button to open the Quick Nav bar, and then tap ➊ Settings➝Security➝Restrictions. Tap Restrictions, and from the screen that appears, type in a passcode ➋ that will be used to disable and enable the browser. Tap four numbers for your passcode.
Page 343 Browser to enable the browser again. NOTE You can disable and enable access to the social features of your NOOK such as Facebook in the same way you disable and enable the browser, just by tapping the box next to Social rather than Browser.
Page 345: Chapter 13 Using Email
It can do that, too. You can also manage your mail, sync your mail, and plenty more right on the NOOK. It’s a great way to have your email always in your pocket. This chapter shows you how to get the most out of email on the NOOK Tablet.
Page 346 If you instead are setting up an email account through work or an ISP, the NOOK Tablet asks you to choose your account type, either POP or IMAP. Not sure what kind of account you have? It’s most likely a POP account (also called a POP3...
Page 347 Make sure that Never is selected in the “Delete email from server” section. If you select “When I delete from Inbox” instead, your NOOK Tablet deletes that email not just from the tablet, but from the server, and you won’t be able to read it on your computer.
Page 348 Next, you’re asked to enter information about your outgoing mail server, which has the techie name SMTP server. As with the previous screen, leave everything as is, and then tap next. You’ll now be asked how often to check for new email, whether to notify you when mail arrives, and whether the email account you’re setting up should be your default email account.
Page 349 The NOOK Tablet takes a moment or two to check your settings and to log you in. If life is being good to you, you should be all set—the NOOK Tablet starts downloading email to your inbox. TIP If you’re already using an email program on your computer, that means you’ve already set up the account there, and its settings are in the email program.
Page 350 Then call your ISP’s tech support line and read a good book on the NOOK Tablet while you wait on hold for an hour or three. When a tech comes on the line, explain the problem you’re having. Then return to the Welcome screen for setting up an email account, tap Manual Setup, and then select either POP or IMAP;...
Page 351: Reading Mail
Say you read incom- Settings➝Advanced. Turn on “Leave a copy ing email on your NOOK Tablet, delete some of it, of each message on the server.” Also turn on keep some of it, and write some new messages.
Page 352 NOOK Tablet with multiple email accounts, so the email app will open to the last account you were reading. For example, if the last time you used email you were in your Gmail inbox, you see all the mail in your inbox. If...
Page 353 If you’ve organized your mail into folders on your computer and you have a POP3 account, that organization won’t be reflected on the NOOK Tablet. You won’t be able to see or use the folders from your computer’s email software.
Page 354 Right in the center of the screen at the top, you see the folder you’re currently in (again, Gmail calls them labels), the number of messages in that folder that have been downloaded to your NOOK Tablet, and where the current email is on that list, for example three out of 25.
Page 355 Your NOOK Tablet can also let you read and save other files, not just pictures, including as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. It lets you preview those files and other file types as well. (For a list of all the file types the NOOK Tablet can read, see Appendix B.)
Page 356 The NOOK’s email app handles these apps in the same way it does pictures. You’ll see an icon of a paper clip, and an icon representing the graphic, along with the file name and its size. Tap the Open button, and the attachment opens.
Page 357: Replying To Messages
Add the Sender to Your Contacts If you’re reading an email message from someone and want to add her to your Contacts list, tap her name. A screen appears that lets you create a new contact with the sender’s name and email address. Replying to Messages At the bottom of the screen when you’re reading a message, you’ll find three icons that do the following:...
Page 358 • Reply. Tap this and you get three choices: Reply, “Reply all,” and Forward. Reply sends a message to just the sender, while “Reply all” sends the mes- sage to everyone who has received it. Forward lets you send the message to someone new.
Page 359 NOTE In POP3 accounts, you won’t be able to see your list of folders, so you won’t be able to move email to them. You may or may not be able to see folders in web-based mail, but you can in Gmail. • Delete.
Page 360: Composing Email
Write your message this way: • In the To field, type the recipient’s address. As you type, the NOOK Tablet looks through your Contacts list, as well as the list of people you’ve sent email to in the past, and displays any matches. (It matches the first few letters of first names as well as last names as you type.) If you find a match,...
Page 361 • In the text box, type your message. Type as you would in any other text field. Note that there’s text in the box already, “Sent from my NOOK,” which is called a signature. Delete it if you don’t want it to appear. You can also change the signature that appears, or not have one appear at all.
Page 362: Managing And Searching Mail
Managing and Searching Mail As explained previously, when you’re in a folder (or label in Gmail), you’ll see a list of your most recent email. Unread mail appears in boldface, and read mail appears in regular face. There’s a lot more you can do from this screen than just scroll through your messages.
Page 363 Compose Mail icon. If you have more than one email account set up on the NOOK Tablet, it shows a list of them all, including how many messages you’ve got in each. Tap any to go to that account. If you want to see all your email from all your accounts in one place, tap Combined Inbox.
Page 364 NOTE You can’t create new mail folders or delete old ones using the NOOK Tablet. You’ll have to use your computer, or in the case of web-based mail such as Gmail, you’ll have to go to the Web to do it.
Page 365 NOTE On POP3 accounts, when you delete email, you’re only deleting it from your NOOK Tablet, not from the server or from any mail stored on your computer. On web-based mail such as Gmail, you’ll generally delete it or move it to the Trash.
Page 366 • Get mail. To check whether you’ve got new email, tap the small sync icon at the bottom left of the screen . It checks for new mail, and downloads it if it finds any. NOTE A Load More Messages button may appear at the bottom of the list of email in a folder. Tap it and you’ll get more email—email that’s older than the email currently displayed.
Page 367 Press-and-Hold Email Options Want more ways to manage your mail? It’s simple to do. Press and hold your finger on any piece of email, and this straightforward menu pops up: • Open. Opens the email for reading. • Delete. D eletes the email. • Forward.
Page 368: Managing Multiple Accounts And Advanced Email Options
You can, however, use it with Gmail. Managing Multiple Accounts and Advanced Email Options Right out of the box, the NOOK Tablet’s email app is set up just fine. But if you’re the kind of per- son who likes to fiddle and diddle with options, you’ve got plenty of...
Page 369 NOTE When you delete an account, you won’t delete the email in it. You’ll just remove it from the NOOK Tablet. To customize the way any account works, tap the gear icon on its far right; the Settings screen appears. Tap what you want to change, fill in the form, and you’re done.
Page 370 • Email check frequency. Changes how often the NOOK Tablet checks an account for email. You have it never check, or else check every 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
Page 371: Understanding Gmail's Organization
The NOOK Tablet’s email app is designed to work in concert with Gmail on the Web, but you can’t do everything in the Gmail app that you can do on the Web. The NOOK Tablet’s email app can’t create labels, for example, so to create new ones, you must visit your Gmail account on the Web, using either the NOOK’s browser or a computer.
Page 372: Gmail's Labels
Labels are an excellent way to organize your email in Gmail, because they’re far more flexible than folders, and mail can show up in multiple places. Here are some of the Gmail labels you may see when you use Gmail on the NOOK Tablet: • Inbox contains all your incoming messages.
Page 375: Getting Social
ParT Getting Social CHAPTER 14 NOOK Friends, Facebook, Twitter, and Beyond CHAPTER 15 Managing Your Contacts...
Page 377: Nook Friends, Facebook, Twitter, And Beyond
What Can You Do with NOOK Friends? The best way to do all this sharing is via NOOK Friends, the free app built into the NOOK Tablet. If you want to share your reading, it’s a spectacular app. Here are its nifty features: • See your friends’...
Page 378: Getting Started With Nook Friends
It’s a reciprocal arrangement; once you become someone’s NOOK Friend, he’s also yours, and vice versa. To start, in the Quick Nav bar, tap Apps and then tap the NOOK Friends app. That’s it; you don’t need to do anything else. The NOOK already knows who you are and your email address, and it doesn’t need anything else to begin.
Page 379: Adding Friends To Nook Friends
After all, you can’t throw a party if you haven’t invited anyone. NOTE Even folks who don’t have a NOOK can still be your NOOK Friends. They won’t be able to participate fully—for example, they obviously won’t be able to download NOOK books. But they can still get recommendations, quotes from books, and so on.
Page 380 At the top of the screen are contacts who are already using NOOK Friends, but aren’t your friend on it. Beneath that is a list of people on your Contacts who aren’t using yet NOOK Friends. Tap Add next to the names of people you want to add, and an invitation gets sent to them.
Page 381 If you tap “Find friends from Facebook,” a screen appears with your Facebook friends who also are on NOOK Friends. Tap Add to send an invi- tation to any to become a NOOK Friend. If you tap “Find friends from Google,” a screen appears that lets you link your NOOK to your Google or Gmail account.
Page 382 Google,” listing will not appear. You’ll receive a notification asking if you want to invite any to become NOOK Friends. Tap the notification, and then tap the name of the person you want to invite to be a friend, and follow the directions for sending an invitation.
Page 383 When your invitation is accepted, you’ll get a notification. Tap it, and you’ll see the name of the person who accepted. From there, you can head straight to NOOK Friends and start interacting. nooK FrIendS, FaCeBooK, TwITTer, and BeYond...
Page 384 Accepting an Invitation Other people can invite you to become a NOOK Friend, of course, and how you’ll get the invitation varies according to the way it was sent (email, Gmail, Facebook, and so on). But no matter how it was sent, click Confirm Friend, and you’ll be connected.
Page 385 All Friends but- ton at the top of the screen. You’ll see an alphabetical list of all of your NOOK Friends, including photographs if any are available of them (from their Facebook account).
Page 386 To cancel an invitation, tap the Cancel button. When someone accepts an invita- tion, they vanish from this area, and show up on your NOOK Friend list. ChaPTer 14...
Page 387: Using Friends Activities
Using Friends Activities Once you’ve got NOOK Friends, you can start sharing with them. One of the key ways is to see what books and periodicals they recommend, and what quotes from books and periodicals they have decided to share with you.
Page 388 To do that, in the NOOK Friends app, tap the Friends’ Activities button at the top left of the screen. You see a scrollable list of the recent activities of your NOOK Friends. You’ll find a variety of activities there: • Recommendations made directly and privately to you.
Page 389: Using About Me
(or download it if it’s free). Using About Me Tap the About Me button at the top of the NOOK Friends app, and you see a summary of all of your activity in NOOK Friends with this information: • Your ...
Page 390: Using Lendme
NOTE You can’t edit the information on the About Me screen. It merely reflects your NOOK settings and activities. • Your total number of NOOK Friends • The number of NOOK books you own. • The number of books you’ve recommended.
Page 391 NOTE The LendMe feature is available not just in the NOOK Friends app, but in the Library as well. • Books you own that you can lend to others. • Books that your NOOK Friends have that are available for lending.
Page 392: Linking Your Nook Tablet To Facebook
In order to share book quotes, post reviews, lend and borrow books, and so on with your Facebook friends, you need to first link your NOOK Tablet to your Facebook account. When you link your account, it does more than just let you do all that—you’ll also have all your Facebook friend information imported into...
Page 393 It’s simple to link to Facebook. First, make sure you’re connected to a WiFi net- work. Then do the following: Press the NOOK button and select Settings➝Social➝“Manage your ➊ Accounts.” From the Social settings screen that appears, in the Facebook section, ➋...
Page 394 You’re sent back to the Social settings screen, with an indication that you’ve linked to Facebook. Your NOOK is linked to your Facebook account, and you can start using all of its features as outlined in this chapter and on pages 382-385. In addition, your Facebook contacts start to be imported into the NOOK Contacts app.
Page 395: Linking Your Nook Tablet To Twitter
Linking Your NOOK Tablet to Twitter In order to share book quotes, reviews, and do more fun stuff with people on Twitter, you need to link your NOOK Tablet to your Twitter account, in much the same way you do with Facebook.
Page 396 First make sure you’re connected to the Internet by WiFi. Then follow these steps: Press the NOOK button and select Settings➝Social➝“Manage your ➊ Accounts.” From the Social settings screen that appears, in the Twitter section, tap ➋ Link Your Account.
Page 397 You’re sent back to the Social settings screen, with an indication that you’ve linked to Twitter. Your NOOK is linked to your Twitter account, and you can start using all of its features as outlined in this chapter on pages 382-385.
Page 398: Using Facebook And Twitter On Your Nook Tablet
At this writing, neither Facebook nor Twitter had an app for the NOOK—although you can still link your Facebook and Twitter accounts to the NOOK and use them in concert with NOOK Friends, as already described. But that could change at any time.
Page 399 Twitter. The buttons just below show you the most recent posts, replies to your posts, your profile, and so on. nooK FrIendS, FaCeBooK, TwITTer, and BeYond...
Page 400 Tap the small menu button in the Notification bar to bring up more options— seeing what topics are trending, changing your settings, and so on. The menu changes according to what you’re doing at the time. To the left of the menu button is a Back button.
Page 401 Create an update by tapping the icon at the upper-right portion of the screen, and refresh by tapping the Refresh icon. As with Twitter, Seesmic gives you a useful menu icon at the bottom of the screen.
Page 403: Managing Your Contacts
NOOK Friends (page 361), Facebook (page 376), and email. So even if you don’t plan to use your NOOK Tablet’s Contacts app on its own, it pays to know how to use it for all those features. Whatever your reason, this chapter tells you everything you need to know about contacts on the NOOK.
Page 404 NOOK’s Contacts app. Not only that, but those contacts also sync automatically. So when you add a new contact on your NOOK, for example, it shows up in Gmail and your Google contacts, and when you add a new contact in Google, it shows up on your NOOK.
Page 405 Then tap Sign In. NOTE The NOOK Tablet’s Contacts app imports only relevant information from your list of Google contacts. The app doesn’t use phone numbers, addresses, and notes, so it doesn’t import that informa- tion. Only the first name, last name, and email addresses are imported.
Page 406 TIP There’s another way to import your Google contacts into your NOOK. Launch the Contacts app, and then select Google Contacts from the drop-down menu. From the screen that appears, select Set Up Account. You’re prompted to enter your Google account email address and password, as in the steps in this section.
Page 407 Your contacts start to be imported into the NOOK Contacts app. It may take several minutes for all of them to be imported. To see your contacts, from the Apps screen, tap Contacts, and from the drop-down menu that appears, tap Google Contacts.
Page 408: Importing Facebook Contacts
If the person has more than one email address, tap Add New Email; a second Email line appears. You can keep adding multiple addresses this way. If you want to invite the contact to be a NOOK Friend, turn on the box ➌ next to “Invite as NOOK Friend.”...
Page 409 Sams and Sallys, they’re all next to one another on the list. Why are they alphabetized that way? It’s a Google thing. The operating system running the NOOK Tablet is Android, created by Google for smartphones, tablets, and other devices, and Android (and Google’s Gmail) alphabetizes contacts by first name rather than last name.
Page 410 NOTE On many Android smartphones and tablets, you can change the way contacts are displayed, and have them show up by last name rather than first name. You can’t do that on the NOOK Tablet, though. The NOOK Tablet offers a simple way to make it easier to browse contacts.
Page 411 And it also displays people with last names of “Palmer,” “Carvajal,” and others. When you search, you search only contacts on the list you’re currently display- ing. So if you’re displaying NOOK Friends, you’ll see matches only for NOOK Friends on that list.
Page 413: Advanced Topics
ParT Advanced Topics CHAPTER 16 Settings CHAPTER 17 Rooting Your NOOK...
Page 415: Chapter 16 Settings
Home screen’s settings, and more? It’s simple to do. This chapter tells you all about the NOOK Tablet’s settings, and explains what they do for you. To get to the Settings screen, tap the right side of the Notification bar and then tap the Settings button (it looks like a gear) at the upper right of the screen that appears.
Page 416: Device Info
Device Info Here’s where you’ll find miscellaneous information about your NOOK Tablet, ranging from battery life to how much storage you’ve got available, to legal boilerplate you’ll never want to read: • Battery. Shows how much life you’ve got left in your battery, and whether your NOOK Tablet is plugged in and charging.
Page 417 12.10 GB free out of a total of 12.75 GB available storage. NOTE Your NOOK Tablet comes with 16 GB of built-in storage, and the NOOK Color with 8 GB. But the content storage available setting shows that you don’t have that much total capacity available.
Page 418 You’ll also be able to erase the content of the SD card when you tap the setting. And you can also “unmount” the card—tell the NOOK Tablet that you’re about to remove it. It’s a good idea to first unmount the card before removing it.
Page 419 • About Your NOOK. Tap this item to get information about your NOOK that you may never need to know, although it may sometimes come in handy, especially if you need to get in touch with tech support. It reports on the name of the owner of the NOOK, the email address of owner, the NOOK’s...
Page 420 • Erase & Deregister Device. Want to nuke your NOOK? Here’s where to do it. Tap here, and a screen appears that lets you delete all information about the NOOK’s owner and Barnes & Noble account, and erase all the NOOK’s content.
Page 421: Wireless
Wireless Here’s where you connect to wireless networks and turn WiFi on and off: • Wi-Fi. Move the slider to the right to turn off WiFi and to the left to turn it on. When it’s turned on, the button is green. If you’re out of range of a WiFi network and want to save power, turn WiFi off.
Page 422 NOOK Tablet’s IP address. If you want to disconnect from the network, tap Forget. That not only disconnects you, but also means the next time you’re in range of the network, your NOOK won’t connect to it automatically.
Page 423: Screen
In some apps and instances, the NOOK won’t rotate its screen to match the direction in which you’ve turned the NOOK. If you’re watching a video on Netflix, for example, it plays only in the horizontal (landscape) orientation. And if you’re on the Home screen, no matter how you rotate your NOOK, it always stays in vertical (portrait) mode.
Page 424 • Screen timeout. Shows how long should the screen stays on before the NOOK darkens it and puts it to sleep. Tap here, and choose 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, or an hour. The shorter the interval, the longer your battery will last on a charge.
Page 425: Sounds
• Notification. Here’s where you control the volume of your notifications. There’s really no need for this setting, though, because you can do the same thing by using the volume along the top-right side of your NOOK. SeTTIngS...
Page 426: Time
NOTE Out of the box, the NOOK only displays U.S. time zones. If you want to see time zones from around the world, check the box next to “Show all world time zones” at the bottom of the Time Zone screen, and then select your time zone from those that appears.
Page 427: Security
You’ve got two security settings on your NOOK Tablet: • Device lock passcode. If you’re worried that unauthorized people may get their hands on your NOOK Tablet, tap here and from the screen that appears, type a four-digit passcode. From now on, whenever your screen locks, entering this code is the only way to unlock it.
Page 428 • Restrictions. If you’re worried about your children or anyone else using your NOOK in a way that might concern you, you can turn off the browser and the NOOK’s social features, such as Facebook. Tap here and type a passcode;...
Page 429: Power Save
Power Save There’s only a single, lonely setting in this section: • PowerSave Mode. Turn on this checkbox to turn this mode on. It dims your screen and makes a number of minor changes as a way to save power. SeTTIngS...
Page 430: Keyboard
Oddly, it works only when you’re writing recommenda- tions and reviews (page 95). Otherwise, like when writing email, you’re on your own. • Quick fixes. Tap here, and your NOOK Tablet automatically fixes common typos. ChaPTer 16...
Page 431: Home
You can choose from wallpapers built right into the NOOK, or from any photographs you have on the NOOK. For details, see page 65. • Clear Keep Reading list. At the top of the Home screen, you’ll find the name of the most recent book you were reading.
Page 432: Shop
NOOK. • Manage Credit Card. Tap here to add a credit card to your NOOK if you haven’t already, or to change the credit card you already have. (You can use only one credit card at a time on the NOOK Tablet.)
Page 433 You can also check how much money you’ve got left on any cards. • Clear Recent Shop Searches. When you search in the NOOK Store, it keeps track of your searches, so that the next time you start searching, it shows you past searches that match the first letters of your current search.
Page 434: Reader
Reader There’s only a single setting here: • Animate eBook page turns. If this box is turned on, then when you turn pages in an eBook, the pages slide across the screen. If you turn this fea- ture off, you get the new page without any fancy animation. ChaPTer 16...
Page 435: Search
Search You’ve got two ways to customize how search works: • Searchable items. Tap here to tell the NOOK what to look for when you perform a search. Choices include the Web, your apps, and your music. No matter what you do, the NOOK always searches your Library and the NOOK Shop, which is why you can’t turn off those checkboxes.
Page 437: Rooting Your Nook
NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color, and then performed some magic and turned them into combination eReaders and Android tablets. Along the way, Barnes & Noble made so many changes that the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color in many ways don’t work like other Android devices. If you compare the NOOKs to all-purpose Android tablets such as the Motorola XOOM or Samsung Galaxy Tab, you’ll notice that the NOOKs simply don’t look like other...
Page 438: Understanding Rooting
For those who aren’t faint of heart and are willing to get down and dirty with their NOOK, there’s a way to turn your NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color into a full- blown Android tablet. It’s called rooting the device, and essentially it means replacing the NOOK’s built-in software with a version that runs Android rather...
Page 439: What You Need To Know About The Nook Software And Rooting
NOOK’s operating system with version 2.3 of Android. This voids your warranty. And if you change your mind and want to return your NOOK to its original state, bear in mind that while it’s theo- retically possible to unroot your NOOK (page 429), there’s no guarantee that it’ll work.
Page 440: Rooting Your Nook Temporarily With A Microsd Card
Android Market, which is presumably the reason you wanted to root your NOOK in the first place. If you insist on trying to root the NOOK’s built-in flash memory, the end of the chapter gives the general steps for rooting (and unrooting) your NOOK via this method.
Page 441 $79.99. There are separate cards for the NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet, so make sure to choose the right one. As I write this, there was no card available that could root the 8GB version of the NOOK Tablet, but by the time you read this, it might be available.
Page 442 Missing Manual . Although that book is specifically for the Motorola Xoom tablet, the Xoom uses a basic Android operating system, similar to what you’ll see on the NOOK when you root it, so you may find much of it helpful.
Page 443 Create. NOTE When you sign into your Google account, your rooted NOOK syncs up with your Google information. So, for example, all your Google contacts are automatically added to your rooted NOOK, the calendar on your rooted NOOK syncs with your Google calendar, and so on.
Page 444: Rooting The Built-In Flash Memory
GPS. So you may not be able to use all the apps normally written for Android tablets. And your rooted NOOK also isn’t a phone, so you don’t get to use the various phone features of many Android apps.
Page 445: Unrooting Your Nook
Market. Unrooting Your NOOK What if after you root your NOOK you decide you’d like to go back to the NOOK software instead of Android? You may be able to do it. Again, do an Internet search. Some people have reported success using an Android app called NOOK Tablet unrooter.
Page 447: Appendixes
VIII ParT Appendixes APPENDIX A Maintenance and Troubleshooting APPENDIX B File Formats APPENDIX C Visiting B&N with Your NOOK Tablet...
Page 449: Maintenance And Troubleshooting
All should be well. What if your NOOK simply refuses to turn on? It may be that your battery is out of juice, so recharge it. Keep in mind that the battery can be so low that it may take several minutes for it to get enough of a charge to restart.
Page 450: Fixing Sd Card Woes
First, make sure it’s the right type of card. The NOOK handles either a microSD or a microSDHC card. MicroSDHC cards are higher capacity than microSD cards. If you have another type of card, it won’t work. The NOOK can handle cards with up to 32 GB capacity.
Page 451: Cleaning Your Nook's Screen
It’s a good idea to regularly clean it off, not only so that you can see more clearly, but because if dirt and grime build up, the NOOK might not work properly—it may not respond to taps, or it may think you’re tapping it when you’re not.
Page 452 However, if for some reason yours doesn’t have the latest update, you can manu- ally update it yourself. Also, sometimes Barnes & Noble makes a manual update available before it automatically updates the NOOK via WiFi, so if you absolutely must have the latest update, you can install the update yourself.
Page 453 Underneath your device listing, click Software Updates. You’ll see the ➏ latest version of the NOOK software listed. If it’s the same version as yours, there’s no need to do anything else. If it’s newer, however, you can manu- ally update your software, as you’ll see in the following instructions.
Page 454 If it turns out that your NOOK software is out of date, you can update the soft- ware yourself. Here’s what to do: On the support page for your device, click the + sign next to “Get Version ➊ 1.41 (or whatever the newest version is) Today.” Look for the text that says “click here for the software update file,”...
Page 455: Warranty And Repair
NOTE However, if you got the NOOK as a gift, you, as the gift recipient, get the warranty. It says so right on the gift receipt.
Page 456: Nook Accessories
URL doesn’t work, go to www.bn.com, click the NOOK heading, and then look for the NOOK Store; click it and head to the Accessories area.) You can also buy many accessories at the NOOK area in any Barnes & Noble store.
Page 459: Appendix B File Formats
Microsoft Office documents, and more. Here’s a list of the file types it can handle: BOOK FILES AND MICROSOFT OFFICE FILES .epub (the main book format for the NOOK) .pdf Word (.doc, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm)
Page 460 .m4v NOTE Here are more details about the how the NOOK handles multimedia files: It can handle MPEG-4 Simple/Advanced Profile up to 1920 × 1080 pixels, and H.263 up to 352 × 288. It can also play H.264 Baseline/Main/High Profile up to 1920 × 1080 pixels, and WEBM VP8 up to 640 × 480 pixels.
Page 463: Visiting B&N With Your Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble store with your NOOK Tablet, because when you do that, you get extras, nota- bly the ability to read many NOOK books for free for an hour. When you go into a Barnes & Noble store, your NOOK Tablet automati- cally finds the store’s WiFi network...
Page 464 Go to the NOOK Store (page 146) and in the Popular Lists scrolling area you’ll find a new entry—Read in Store. Tap it, and you’ll come to a list of books with the In Store badge.
Page 465 Tap the button, and you’ll get a notification that you can read the book for free for an hour. The book downloads to your NOOK; a green bar shows the down- load progress. When the green bar stretches all the way across, the Read button turns green.
Page 466 After an hour, a screen appears, telling you that your time is up. At that point, you can buy the book, add it to your wish list, or simply stop reading. aPPendIx C...
Page 469: Index
About Your NOOK, 403–404 deleting, 236 accented characters, 48–49 Evernote, 246–247 accessories, NOOK, 440 Fandango, 247–248 adapter, power, 23–24 getting in NOOK Store, 238–243 address Bar, 294–295 Hulu Plus, 50 Adobe Digital Editions, 206 Juice, 265 Adobe Flash Player, 300 managing, 235–236...
Page 470 Barnes & Noble Audio Books, 266 184–186 Barnes & Noble (B&N) using LendMe, 182–184 NOOK Store. See Nook Store using NOOK Friends app, 374–376 NOOK technical support, 40, 41 brightness top 100-selling books, 146 changing Barnes & Noble Stores, visiting with in eBooks, 86 NOOK, 447–450...
Page 471 147–148 in NOOK Store, 146–149 Netflix, 216–218 Cc (carbon copy) field, 345 built-in CDs. See also music apps, 236–238 organizing, 257 storage changing accessing content in, 174–177 brightness buttons in Quick Settings, 54 About Me, 373–374 display, 96–98 Apps, 50...
Page 472 400 Contents icon, on Reading Tools menu, 84, 89, 99 B&N Content Storage Available, 401 Cookies, 321 deregister NOOK, 404–405 copying files to NOOK, 254 erase NOOK, 404–405 cropping pictures, 271 dictionary, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 100 Crossword app, 237...
Page 473 167–172 book reader, 81–85 page numbers borrowing and lending. See bor- about, 81 rowing and lending syncing with other devices, 91 buying from NOOK Store. posting reading status, 94 See NOOK Store rating, 94 discovering related, 86 reading, 12 display in, 96–98 reading in Barnes &...
Page 474 MAC computer, setting up, 329–335 sharing thoughts about books transferring to PC, 282–286 using, 92, 94 types of files that work with NOOK, signature, 354 280–281 Spam vs. Trash, 356 Find icon, on Reading Tools menu, Star mail, 349...
Page 475 Go Back button, 87, 88 file, 443–444 Google of eBooks, 176, 112 importing contacts from, 387–391 picture, 272 searching from dictionary, 100–101 supported by NOOK, 280–281 Google Maps, 337 forwarding email, 342 Go to Page button, 84 free ebooks green NOOK symbol downloading, 56...
Page 476 50 keyboard icon, 47 browsing and searching, 227 keyboard, onscreen controls and information, 224–225 accented characters, 48–49 on NOOK Color, 14, 220 Auto-capitalization, 414 options, 225–226 automatically fixing common typos, streaming, 211–212 using queue and history list, 228 back button, 46 watching movies, 222–224...
Page 477 NOOK, 22 vs. Folders, 338 screen orientation, 109, 110 lending books LOST.DIR folder, 286 about, 187–194 using NOOK Friends app, 374–376 MAC address, 35 lending period, 191, 194 Mac computer LendMe reading books on, 177 badge on book covers, 147...
Page 478 306–309 zooming on pages, 115 Move to icon, 342 maintenance movies cleaning screen, 435 getting on NOOK, 253 updating software, 435–438 watching, 14 Manage Credit Card setting, 416 watching Netflix, 214–215 MPEG-4 Simple/Advanced Profile margins, changing in eBooks, 97...
Page 479 203 Netflix app, 50 My Shelves, 161 Quick Nav bar, 49 My Stuff, 161, 198–205 running apps, 233 NOOK eBook Central site, on borrow- ing library books, 203 Netflix NOOK Friends app about using, 212–214 about, 361–362 app, 50 accepting invitations, 368 browsing and searching, 216–218...
Page 480 (password) wishlist, 153 nookTalk, 440 for NOOK, 411 NOOK technical support line, 40 for WiFi hotspots, 39 notes setting, 23–24 deleting, 105 handling, 103–105 reading books on, 177 hiding, 105 transferring files to, 282–286 Notes & Highlights tab, 89...
Page 481 Read and Play feature, 126 of punctuation marks, 47 opening, 44 Read by Myself feature, 126 posting reading status, 94 reader setting, Animate eBook page turns, 418 power adapter, 23–24 reading power button, 21–22 Animate eBook page turns, 418 PowerPoint files books on Web, 177 as attachments, 340 comic books, 122...
Page 482 Dictionary, 100 customer, 153 contacts, 392–395 editorial, 155 eBooks, 84, 106–107 rooting NOOK for books in NOOK Store, 149–150 getting to Android Market, 426–427 Hulu Plus, 227 go back to NOOK software (unroot- ing), 429 in NOOK Store, 146–149 NOOK software and, 423–424...
Page 483 Hulu Plus, 224–225 on Quick Nav bar, 49 about, 219–223 shuffle music, 259 browsing and searching, 227 sideloading, 283 on NOOK Color, 220 signature, email, 354 options, 225–226 Simply Audiobooks, 266 using queue and history list, 228 sleep watching movies, 222–224 waking from, 21–22...
Page 484 NOOK into Android tablet (rooting NOOK) email, 350 getting to Android Market, 426–427 page numbers go back to NOOK software (unroot- with other devices, 91 ing), 429 NOOK software and, 423–424 table of contents, 89–91 rooting built-in flash memory, 428–429...
Page 485 308–309 using in NOOK Tablet, 382–383 links in, 298–299 using Seesmic, 383–384 most visited websites, 306–309 types of files that work with NOOK, 280–281 multiple windows in, 300–301 typing web addresses, 295 pop-up blocker, 322 typos, automatically fixing common, Privacy Settings and Security Settings, 320–322...
Page 486 online privacy and security, on images, 110 320–322 on magazine pages, 115 reading books on, 177 on PDF page, 113 returning to eBook from, 102 web pages, 297 saving using bookmarks, 302–305 using browser, 291–294 WiFi connections geeky details about, 39 settings screen and, 405–407 streaming media from, 211 WiFi icon, on Status bar, 51...
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