Corey Sandler - Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook for Dummies

Corey Sandler has lived a life (thus far) probably worthy of two or three About the Author entries. He holds degrees in journalism and psychology from Syracuse University back in the days when writers pecked away on typewriters and publishers hired squadrons of monks to hand-letter and illustrate parchment books. Well, at least the first part is true.

As an undergraduate and graduate student he also played around with a gigantic IBM mainframe computer, writing software programs that performed advanced assignments like figuring batting averages for the newborn New York Mets and calculating the proper tip for pizza delivery. He went on to work for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York, covering local and then national politics before joining The Associated Press as a newsman.

When the first personal computers were introduced, Corey managed to switch off the portion of his brain devoted to baseball, pizza tips, and politics and turn back on his interest in computers. He became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine in 1983 and wrote about and directed the coverage of the birth of personal computer industry, the Internet, and microwaveable pizza.

About 25 years ago he decided to try his hand at books. Since then he has written more than 200 titles on computers and travel, business, and sports.

When he began writing about computers, the devices came with ten-pound technical manuals typed by engineers and programmers. Today, tablets and other technology often come with no instruction books at all; not that they dont need them, but it seems manufacturers have decided not to even bother.

Thats a good thing, at least for those of us who make a nice living translating mysterious onscreen menus and hidden features into language readers can actually use. We call them books.

Corey lives with his lovely wife on the lovely island of Nantucket, 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Their two children, no longer troublesome laptops, have begun their own lives on the mainland. About half the year, Corey travels the world as a destination lecturer for one of the most luxurious cruise lines in the world. (Someone has to do it.) You can vicariously travel along at www.blog.sandlerbooks.com .

Back on his island, the winds may howl and the seas may rage, but these days a cable delivers high-speed Internet right to the computer over in the corner the one hes using to write these words right now.

What? Another heartfelt dedication to Janice, my life partner, muse, and first reader? You bet.

I would like to thank fellow traveler (metaphorically speaking) Tonya Maddox Cupp, who polished my prose with professionalism. And Katie Mohr of Wiley, my faithful patron. Once again, they are my publishing all-stars.

Publishers Acknowledgments

Senior Acquisitions Editor: Katie Mohr

Project Editor: Tonya Maddox Cupp

Editorial Assistant: Claire Johnson

Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case

Project Coordinator: Patrick Redmond

Project Manager: Mary Corder

Cover Image: iStock.com/Giorgio Magini

Chapter 1

In This Chapter

Figuring out how to turn it on and off

Going into Airplane Mode

Putting memory on a microSD card

Youve got a small box that holds a thin, flat piece of plastic and circuitry that has more speed, more intelligence, and more magic than an entire field of mainframes. It can hold and display nearly all of the worlds books, magazines, and newspapers. It can sing, show videos, take pictures, make movies, determine its location from an orbiting satellite, connect to the Internet, and send and receive emails and messages.

Just about the only thing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK lacks is a decent instruction manual. If I might be so bold, Im here to help.