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- Page 2 Patrick Kanouse The NOOK Book An Unofficial Guide Fourth Edition 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240...
- Page 3 NOOK, NOOK HD+, NOOK HD, NOOK Color, NOOK Study, NOOK Tablet, NOOK Simple Touch, NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, NOOK for iPad, Proofreader NOOK for iPhone, NOOK for Android, NOOK for PC, NOOK for Mac, NOOK Sarah Kearns Kids for iPad, NOOK Friends, LendMe, PubIt!, NOOK Kids, NOOK Book,...
- Page 4 Lending and Borrowing Books with LendMe on Your NOOK Simple Touch Using Highlights, Bookmarks, and Annotations Using the Social Features of Your NOOK Simple Touch Shopping and Visiting B&N on Your NOOK Simple Touch Rooting Your NOOK Simple Touch PART III...
- Page 5 PubIt book at BN.com that you can read on your NOOK. His website is patrickkanouse.com. You can find him on Twitter at @patrickkanouse. Patrick lives in Westfield, Indiana, with his wife and two Yorkies.
- Page 6 We Want to Hear from You! As the reader of this book, you are our most important critic and commentator. We value your opinion and want to know what we’re doing right, what we could do bet- ter, what areas you’d like to see us publish in, and any other words of wisdom you’re willing to pass our way.
- Page 7 R-rated movies at the touch of a button—or rack up credit card bills by buying all sorts of content. This is where profiles come in. On the NOOK HDs, up to six pro- files can be created. Child profiles in particular offer customizable parental controls.
- Page 8 NOOK, whichever version you have, and the associated supporting applications. You not only learn how to use your NOOK, but you also learn all the best places to get books and other content. After you’ve learned all the great resources available for books, you’ll quickly find that you need a way to organize your ebooks, so you also...
- Page 9 Part I, “NOOK HD+ and NOOK HD,” focuses exclusively on using the NOOK HDs. The NOOK HDs are identical except for their size. Thus, while reading this part, when you read about the NOOK, it is for either the NOOK HD+ or NOOK HD.
- Page 10 Getting Started with Your NOOK HDs Before getting into the details of using your NOOK HD+ or NOOK HD, take a look at some of the basics: gestures, setup, and basic navigation. With these basics in place, you can then discover all the other incredible things your NOOK HD+ or NOOK HD can do.
- Page 11 Setting Up and Registering Your NOOK When you first turn on your NOOK, you are asked if you are in the UK or United States. Tap the appropriate response. The first step in getting started with your NOOK is to set up and register it with Barnes &...
- Page 12 You need to agree to the terms of service. Tap the check box for Yes, I Accept the NOOK Terms of Service and tap Agree. After this, you land at the Do You Have a NOOK Account screen. If you have an existing B&N account, tap Yes, I Have an Account and enter your account information.
- Page 13 You can skip this or tap the covers to receive the content. You are then taken to the Home screen, and your NOOK is now set up for use. Orienting Yourself to Your NOOK Now orient yourself to the NOOK and the basic navigational features.
- Page 14 Orienting Yourself to Your NOOK The Welcome Back Screen After you set up your NOOK, whenever it goes to sleep or powers off, whenever you wake it up or power it back on, you must unlock it. This occurs on the Welcome Back screen.
- Page 15 Status bar: This is the top of the screen. You see whatever you name your NOOK (Patrick’s NOOK in Figure 1.4). Also, you see notifications in the middle of the screen. On the right side, you see the current time, Wi-Fi con- nectivity, settings (the gear icon), and battery monitor.
- Page 16 Orienting Yourself to Your NOOK and easily access recent items without having to press the Home button and navigate where you want to go. FIGURE 1.5 The Recent Drawer. Add to Pages Screen The Home screen enables you to access your library, app, and Internet bookmarks quickly for placing onto one of the pages;...
- Page 17 Your NOOK can connect to Wi-Fi networks other than the one you initially set up. B&N offers free Wi-Fi access in all B&N stores. If you take your NOOK to a B&N store, it can automatically connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot in that store.
- Page 18 If you don’t know this information, ask the person who set up the Wi-Fi network. Your NOOK can connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot that requires you to browse to a web page to authenticate yourself. For example, many hotel Wi-Fi hotspots require you to enter a room number or other information to connect.
- Page 19 Charging and Caring for Your NOOK’s Battery Your NOOK uses a high-tech battery called a lithium polymer battery. You can charge your NOOK’s battery either by plugging your NOOK into your computer’s USB port or by plugging your NOOK into a wall outlet using the supplied AC adapter.
- Page 20 B&N Customer Service. When You Are Not Reading When you finish reading, you should let your NOOK go to sleep instead of turning it off. You can force the NOOK to sleep by pressing and quickly letting go of the Power button.
- Page 21 Getting Started with Your NOOK HDs CHAPTER 1: Microphone Earplug slot Volume controls Power button FIGURE 1.8 Your NOOK HD’s microSD card slot Home button Power connector controls. Volume controls Microphone Earplug slot Power button FIGURE 1.9 Your NOOK HD+’s...
- Page 22 Your NOOK’s Controls The Power Button The Power button is the sole button on the top-right side of the NOOK. In addition to powering your NOOK on and off, the Power button can wake your NOOK when it’s sleeping or put it to sleep when you finish reading.
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- Page 24 Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK HDs Your NOOK has many features that enable you to easily customize it and make it your own. There are also many settings that control how your NOOK operates. In this chapter, you examine how to customize and configure your NOOK.
- Page 25 Live Wallpapers are images that change over time (some quickly, some slowly). You can purchase Live Wallpapers from B&N—just type Live Wallpapers in the search box (see Chapter 13, “Shopping and Visiting B&N on Your NOOK HDs”). Live wallpapers are sold as apps and automatically appear in the Live...
- Page 26 You can place images you want to use for wallpaper in the Wallpaper folder on your NOOK. (Plug your NOOK into your computer and navigate to that folder.) Because the Gallery displays every JPG, GIF, and PNG file on your NOOK, including cover images, the Gallery list can quickly become lengthy.
- Page 27 Set Wallpaper. Should You Use a Specific File Format for Images? Your NOOK supports JPEG, GIF, and PNG files. For images, using either JPEG or PNG is your best option. GIF isn’t a good option for photographs, but if your image is line art or text, GIF can work fine.
- Page 28 Wi-Fi: Turn off or on Wi-Fi, and change which Wi-Fi you are connected to. See Chapter 1, “Getting Started with Your NOOK HDs,” for more informa- tion about Wi-Fi networks. Airplane Mode: Turn this on to turn off Wi-Fi functionality quickly. Turn this off to allow the NOOK to connect to Wi-Fi networks.
- Page 29 Bluetooth is Off by default. You can turn it on here. When you turn it on, you are taken to a new screen (see Figure 2.6), and you see a search begin. Your NOOK is looking for Bluetooth capable devices.
- Page 30 Your NOOK’s Settings General Settings A large number of options exist here (see Figure 2.7). So take them in order: FIGURE 2.7 The General settings screen. PowerSave Mode: According to B&N, with Wi-Fi off and this feature on, you can read for 11 1/2 hours or watch video for 9 hours. Power Save just...
- Page 31 If you set the sleep timer to a time interval that is shorter than the amount of time it takes you to read a page on the reading screen, your NOOK goes into sleep mode while you are reading. So, be sure you set the interval appropriately for your reading speed.
- Page 32 NOTE: Forgot your passcode? The good news is that you can get your NOOK back. The bad news is that you have to reset your NOOK to factory settings, which means you lose all content you placed on your device.
- Page 33 1. With the NOOK off, hold the Home button and the Power button. 2. The NOOK starts up. Keep holding the buttons. 3. After a few seconds, you see a screen to reset your NOOK to factory set- tings with two options: .
- Page 34 Your NOOK’s Settings Select Date Format: This enables you to choose how you want the day, month, and year to appear. Notifications: If you don’t want to receive notifications when email arrives, a friend is offering a LendMe book, and so on, turn this option off.
- Page 35 Customize by Showing Only These Content Types. Turn off (that is, remove the check mark) for those items you don’t want to appear in the Active Shelf. Documents are documents and files you have added to the NOOK outside of purchasing at the NOOK Store ™ .
- Page 36 Your NOOK’s Settings Reply All: If Reply All is selected, when you click reply to a message, everyone who was on the original email is added to your reply. That said, so far I haven’t seen this setting have any effect yet. When you click Reply Now, you get all reply options, including Reply and Reply All.
- Page 37 Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK HDs CHAPTER 2: FIGURE 2.11 The same email as before but with images showing. FIGURE 2.12 An email account’s settings screen.
- Page 38 Check for New Messages button (see Chapter 9). The more often you check, the more power (albeit not that much) your NOOK uses. If you are an email junkie, you may opt for the lower settings, but if you don’t get a lot of emails or you don’t like distracting notifications, you may opt for the higher values.
- Page 39 Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK HDs CHAPTER 2: If the account you have selected is one you want to delete from this NOOK, tap Remove Account. You’ll be asked to confirm the deletion, so either tap Cancel or OK. If you tap OK, the account will be deleted from the NOOK. You can always re-add it by tapping Add Account.
- Page 40 Your NOOK’s Settings began with D. Clearing your search history basically tells the NOOK to forget all the calendar searches you have made. The Reminder Settings category has a variety of information associated with how your NOOK reminds you that meetings are upcoming. Notifications can be turned on or off.
- Page 41 Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK HDs CHAPTER 2: When you tap Import/Export, you have the option to Share Visible Contacts. When you tap this, you are provided a number of options depending on what apps you have installed. In Figure 2.13, the options are to share the contacts with Dropbox or Evernote (two apps the author installed) or via email.
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