Table of Contents
Acknowledgments........................................................................................................... 6
Dedication ....................................................................................................................... 6
About the Author............................................................................................................. 6
Introduction........................................................................................................................ 7
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Your nook ........................................................................ 9
Registering Your nook .................................................................................................... 9
Using Wi-Fi Hotspots.................................................................................................... 10
Disconnecting from a Wi-Fi Hotspot ........................................................................ 12
Caring for Your nook’s Battery .................................................................................... 12
Charging Your nook’s Battery .................................................................................. 13
When You Are Not Reading ..................................................................................... 13
Your nook’s Controls .................................................................................................... 14
The Power Button...................................................................................................... 14
The Home Button ...................................................................................................... 14
Page Turn Buttons ..................................................................................................... 15
Color Touchscreen..................................................................................................... 15
Your nook’s Operating System..................................................................................... 15
Chapter 2: Customizing and Configuring Your nook....................................................... 17
Using Custom Wallpaper and Screensavers.................................................................. 17
Creating Wallpaper and Screensaver Images ............................................................ 17
Copying Wallpaper Images to Your nook................................................................. 19
Copying Screensaver Images to Your nook .............................................................. 20
Choosing a Custom Wallpaper or Screensaver ......................................................... 21
Wallpaper and Screensavers from Other Sources ..................................................... 21
One Step Further–Decals......................................................................................... 21
Your nook’s Settings..................................................................................................... 21
Profile ........................................................................................................................ 22
Software..................................................................................................................... 22
Available Memory..................................................................................................... 23
Battery and Wi-Fi ...................................................................................................... 23
Device Information.................................................................................................... 23
Configuring Your nook’s Settings ................................................................................ 23
Airplane Mode........................................................................................................... 23
Wi-Fi Menu ............................................................................................................... 24
Display Menu ............................................................................................................ 24
Device Menu.............................................................................................................. 25
Contacts Menu........................................................................................................... 26
Adding a microSD Card to Your nook.......................................................................... 27
Chapter 3: Reading on Your nook and Beyond ................................................................ 28
An Overview of eBook Formats ................................................................................... 28
EPUB Format ............................................................................................................ 29
eReader Format.......................................................................................................... 30
Browsing Your Library ................................................................................................. 30
The Daily ................................................................................................................... 30
My B&N Library....................................................................................................... 31
Archiving My B&N Library Items............................................................................ 34
My Documents .......................................................................................................... 35
Reading Books on Your nook ....................................................................................... 37
Changing the Text Font and Text Size ...................................................................... 38
Navigating to the Furthest Read Point....................................................................... 39
Looking Up Words in the Dictionary ........................................................................ 39
Reading Subscription Content....................................................................................... 40
Chapter 4: Reading Beyond Your nook............................................................................ 42
Using Desktop eReader on Your PC or Mac ................................................................ 42
Browsing Your B&N Online Library with Desktop eReader ................................... 42
Reading Items in Desktop eReader ........................................................................... 44
Importing Books into Desktop eReader .................................................................... 45
Configuring Desktop eReader Settings ..................................................................... 46
Using B&N eReader on Your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Blackberry....................... 46
Browsing My Online Library .................................................................................... 46
Reading Books in eReader ........................................................................................ 47
Categorizing Books in eReader ................................................................................. 48
Chapter 5: Lending and Borrowing Books with LendMe ................................................ 49
Lending Books with LendMe........................................................................................ 49
Borrowing Books .......................................................................................................... 51
Chapter 6: Using Highlights, Bookmarks, and Annotations............................................. 53
Using Highlights, Notes, and Bookmarks on Your nook.............................................. 53
Adding a Highlight or a Note .................................................................................... 54
Viewing Highlights and Notes .................................................................................. 54
Editing Notes ............................................................................................................. 55
Deleting Highlights ................................................................................................... 56
Using Bookmarks ...................................................................................................... 56
Using Highlights, Notes, and Bookmarks in Desktop eReader .................................... 56
Adding Highlights and Notes .................................................................................... 57
Viewing Highlights and Notes .................................................................................. 57
Editing and Deleting Highlights and Notes............................................................... 57
Using Bookmarks ...................................................................................................... 58
Using Highlights, Notes, and Bookmarks in eReader................................................... 58
Using Highlights and Notes....................................................................................... 58
Using Bookmarks ...................................................................................................... 58
Chapter 7: Playing Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts ..................................................... 59
Adding Audio Files to Your nook................................................................................. 59
Playing Audio on Your nook..................................................................................... 59
Using the Audio Player ................................................................................................. 60
Controlling the Order Files Are Played......................................................................... 61
Playing Podcasts and Audiobooks on Your nook ......................................................... 61
Podcasts ..................................................................................................................... 61
Audiobooks................................................................................................................ 62
Chapter 8: Sampling and Buying Content from B&N...................................................... 63
Shopping on Your nook ................................................................................................ 63
Browsing the eBookstore........................................................................................... 63
Searching for Content............................................................................................... 64
Sampling and Buying Content................................................................................... 64
Shopping on Your Computer ........................................................................................ 66
Chapter 9: Sideloading Books onto Your nook ................................................................ 68
Using Fictionwise and eReader.com............................................................................. 68
Using Adobe Digital Editions ....................................................................................... 68
Sideloading ADE Content to Your nook................................................................... 69
Other Sources for eBooks ............................................................................................. 69
Chapter 10: Managing Your eBooks with Calibre ........................................................... 71
Configuring Calibre....................................................................................................... 71
Adding Books to Your Calibre Library......................................................................... 72
Editing Metadata........................................................................................................ 72
Adding Covers........................................................................................................... 74
Sideloading Books with Calibre.................................................................................... 75
Subscribing to News Content in Calibre ................................................................... 76
Chapter 11: Using My eBook Library .............................................................................. 78
Accessing My eBook Library ....................................................................................... 78
Archiving, Deleting, and Lending Books in My eBook Library .................................. 78
Downloading Content from My eBook Library............................................................ 79
Chapter 12: Using Your nook in a B&N Store................................................................. 81
Chapter 13: Hacking Your nook....................................................................................... 82
An Introduction to Rooting Your nook ......................................................................... 82
How to Root Your nook................................................................................................ 83
Downgrading to Factory Fresh nook 1.0 ................................................................... 84
Install a Rooted Version of the 1.3 Software............................................................. 85
Updating nookLauncher................................................................................................ 86
Download and Extract the Android SDK .................................................................. 86
Connect to a Wi-Fi Hotspot and Find Your nook’s IP Address................................ 87
Connect to Your nook................................................................................................ 87
Uninstall nookLauncher ............................................................................................ 88
Installing the Latest nookLauncher ........................................................................... 88
Using nookLauncher ..................................................................................................... 89
Adding Applications to Your Launcher .................................................................... 89
Rearranging Buttons and Removing Buttons ............................................................ 90
Making nookLauncher Your Default Launcher ........................................................ 91
Using Trook................................................................................................................... 91
Downloading Books with Trook ............................................................................... 92
Reading News with Trook......................................................................................... 92
Accessing Your Calibre Library with Trook............................................................. 92
Adding Calibre to Your Feeds................................................................................... 93
More Hacking................................................................................................................ 94
Chapter 14: Browsing the Web on Your nook.................................................................. 95
An Overview of Browsing on Your nook ..................................................................... 95
Using the Web Browser Tool Bar ................................................................................. 95
Configuring Web Browser Settings .............................................................................. 96
Chapter 15: Frequently Asked Questions ......................................................................... 97
Questions Often Asked by nookies ............................................................................... 97