Sandler - NOOK Tablet For Dummies

NOOK Tablet For Dummies, Portable Edition

by Corey Sandler

NOOK Tablet For Dummies, Portable Edition

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About the Author

Corey Sandler is a voracious reader and an indefatigable author: books, magazine pieces and, ages ago, newspapers. He has written more than nearly 200 books at last count, about computers and technology, history, sports, and business. When hes not at the keyboard, Sandler travels all over the world as a lecturer aboard luxury cruise ships. (Someone has to do it.)

Okay, so sometimes he is fatigable. That happens when you carry 150 pounds of luggage including a laptop, two tablets, three cameras, four lenses, five electrical plugs, half a dozen books to read and consult, and a hogshead of lecture notes printed out and neatly bound to sit on a lectern. And thats one major reason why hes a fan of electronic books. Its good for his back.

Sandler studied journalism at Syracuse University; he also took some courses to learn how to program a gigantic IBM mainframe computer and worked nights at a newspaper printing plant.

He began his career as a daily newspaper reporter in Ohio and then New York, moving on to a post as a correspondent for Associated Press. From there he joined Ziff-Davis Publishing as the first executive editor of PC Magazine. He wrote his first book about computers in 1983 and hasnt come close to stopping. When hes not out to sea or in a foreign country and living on his smartphone, tablet, and computer, hes at home on Nantucket Island 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. He shares his life with his wife Janice; two grown children have their own careers elsewhere on the continent.

You can see Sandlers current list of books on his web site at www.sandlerbooks.com and send an e-mail through the links you find there. He promises to respond to courteous inquiries as quickly as he can. Spam, on the other hand, will receive the death penalty.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my home team. Janice has put up with me for more than 30 years and still laughs at most of my jokes. My children, William and Tessa, are no longer constantly underfoot, embarked now on careers of their own, but when I need consultation on social networks and cultural references beyond the scope of Old Dad, theyre the first to text, IM, or tweet.

Authors Acknowledgments

This book bears just one name on the cover, but thats only part of the story.

Thanks to the smart and capable crew at Wiley, including Katie Mohr and the rest of the editorial and production staff, who turned the taps of my keyboard into the book you hold in the electronic device in the palm of your hand.

Also, my appreciation to long-time publishing collaborator Tonya Maddox Cupp, who once again managed the process with grace and humor.

And as always, thanks to you for buying this book. Go forth and enjoy your NOOK Tablet for escapades on the World Wide Web, audio, video, games, and easy (and weightless) access to millions of great works of literature, thoughtful history and analysis, and humble heapings of help like the very one you are reading now.

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Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com)

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