Patrick Kanouse - The NOOK Book: An Unofficial Guide: Everything you need to know about the NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, and the NOOK Simple Touch

by Barnes & Noble

An Unofficial Guide

Third Edition

Patrick Kanouse

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240

The NOOK Book

Copyright 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-10: 0-7897-4848-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4848-5

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Second Printing: February 2012

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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 NOOK Tablet, and writing about his NOOK Tablet, he writes poetry, publishing a PubIt book at BN.com that you can read on your NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, or NOOK. His website is patrickkanouse.com.

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

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.

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, Beth Jonap, and John Herrin in assisting in testing the LendMe functions.

Thank you to Rob and Laura at my Westfield B&N store for their patience as I pestered them about the NOOK Tablet.

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Congratulations on your purchase of the NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, or NOOK Simple Touch, Barnes & Nobles (simply B&N from here on) ebook readers. The NOOK Tablet, released in November 2011, is a souped-up NOOK Color, which itself debuted in November 2010. Both NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color feature multitouch VividView color screensVividView is B&N lingo for a full-color touch screen. The NOOK Simple Touch, which first went on sale in June 2011, features an E Ink reading display that bears a remarkable resemblance to paper. The NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color resemble 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 NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color are an attempt to balance the features of the tablet with the immersive experience of reading. The NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color 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 NOOK Tablet can hold enough books for almost 116 years of reading, and if you add a microSD card to your NOOK Color, you can easily hold enough books for many lifetimes!

The NOOK Simple Touch is a simple-to-use device slightly bigger than a paperback. Because it is not backlit, you can easily read a book in bright sunlight with very little glare. Also, its E Ink screen is less than ideal for reading graphic-intensive books, but for reading the latest mystery or newspapers, it is an excellent device that can go anywhere and is easy on the eyes.