Patrick Kanouse - Using NOOKcolor and NOOK, 2nd Edition

Using NOOKcolor and NOOK, Second Edition

Patrick Kanouse

Copyright 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-10: 0-7897-4109-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4109-7

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This book would not have been possible without Jim Cheshires first edition, which was so well written that updating its content for this new edition was a minor task indeed. Thanks to Loretta Yates for asking me to revise and write this edition and to the efforts of the book team to make my words sound good: Todd Brakke, Betsy Harris, and San Dee Phillips.

I also appreciate the efforts of Angie Doyle, Mark Meyer, Jonathon Taylor, and John Herrin in assisting in testing the LendMe functions.

This book is dedicated to my wife, Gina, who has always supported my every endeavor, even if it is immersed in some ancient history reading or volumes of poetry. Without her support, nothing that I attempt would be possible.

Patrick Kanouse works as the structured authoring program manager for Pearson Education. Always a bookworm, he has gladly adopted ebook reading technologies, while still appreciating and valuing the printed book.

Patrick also teaches business technical report writing at IUPUI. Outside of teaching about writing, reading on his NOOKcolor, and writing about his NOOKcolor, he writes poetry, even publishing a PubIt book at BN.com that you can read on your NOOKcolor or NOOK. His website is patrickkanouse.com.

Patrick lives in Westfield, IN, with his wife and two Yorkies.

Congratulations on your purchase of the NOOKcolor or NOOK, Barnes & Nobles (simply B&N from here on) ebook readers. The NOOKcolor, which debuted in November 2010, is a multitouch VividView color screen. The original NOOK, which first went on sale late in 2009, features an E Ink reading display that bears a remarkable resemblance to paper.

The NOOKcolor resembles a tablet like the iPad or Samsung Galaxy in many ways, but B&N has intentionally focused it as an ereading device without the full set of features to be found in a tablet. This focuses attention on the reading experience of books, newspapers, and magazines while keeping the price down. The NOOKcolor is an attempt to balance the features of the tablet with the immersive experience of reading. The NOOKcolor can hold approximately 6,000 books out-of-the-box. (The original NOOK can hold approximately 1,500 books.) In other words, if you read one book per week, your NOOKcolor can hold enough books for almost 116 years of reading, and if you add a microSD card to your NOOKcolor, you can easily hold enough books for many lifetimes!