Nook instruction manual

Page 69 Reader fonts are not changed. After re-registration, you can download content from the online digital library for the new account. If metadata for the current reading page and rating is associated with the content, it is downloaded too. Page Personalizing Your Nook Open the folder on your computer that contains the images you want to use as wallpaper images.

Select the images in the folder on your computer and drag and drop them or copy and paste them to the my wallpapers folder on the nook drive. You can also extract them directly to the destination folders on your Page Reader Settings On the Home menu, tap settings. Tap the screensaver set you want to use. The names correspond to folder names in the folder my screensavers in the internal memory.

When your sleeps, you will see the next NOOK screensaver image in the set. It can also include this day in literature. Did you know that on December 27th, Charles Darwin set sail on H.

Page Notifications Navigate to the issue of the feed using the Up and Down buttons, and the Next Page and Previous Page buttons if the issue is on a different page.

Then tap Select. If the issue is longer than one page, use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons to turn pages. Page 75 the default , Type, or Author. To view details for an item: Navigate to the item using the Up and Down buttons, and the Next Page and Previous Page buttons if the item is on a different page. Within a content type, you can browse subjects, for example, Romance and Historical Fiction. In any list of content, you can also sort and filter the list, to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

To browse a content type or collection: Navigate up and down the shopfront with the Up and Down buttons. This displays details about the item. From the details page, you can act on the item for example, you can purchase it. In some cases, choosing an item in the merchandising area performs a search and displays matching items, for example, all books by a specific author.

Turn pages in a multi- page list using the Next Page and Previous Page buttons. Tap Select to select an item. Page Viewing Item Details In this case, the covers on the touchscreen are updated to correspond to the new pages.

Tap the cover in the center of the gallery to select the item and display item details. Page Payment March 15th. Subsequent monthly charges are charged to your default credit card on the same day of the month or the last day for a shorter month , the 15th of each month in this example.

A subscriptions continues, and you are charged, until you cancel the subscription. Go to www. Page 83 You cannot pre-order periodical issues or subscriptions. The only difference is that there is no charge.

Page Content Delivery During the free trial period, your credit card is not charged. During the free trial period, you can cancel your subscription and you will not be charged. If you cancel the subscription, you cannot restart the free trial but you can purchase the subscription. Page Ewish List List Your eWish list is a list of books, magazines, and newspapers you would like to read.

When a friend recommends a book, add it to your eWish list. While searching for the book you are buying today, you found others that intrigue you? Add them to your eWish list. You can revisit them later, and decide whether you want to buy them. If the item has not been downloaded to your Page Read In Stores Reading time is limited to one hour per calendar day.

At the end of the hour or when you leave the store, it will no longer be available. You can read it another time tomorrow or later. Page 89 While reading an eBook in a store, is a menu option. Tap to buy the eBook. At the end of the one-hour reading period, a message is displayed and you can also buy the eBook. Page 91 BN. Archived items items that are in your online digital library but that are no longer on your NOOK because they have been archived are indicated by being displayed in gray, if archived items are shown.

Navigate to what you want to read. Browse to the item you want to read, or search and then browse. Flip pages in the list using the Next Page and Previous Page buttons. Move the selection indicator up and down on the reading screen and from page to page using the Up and Down buttons. Page Downloading Content USB, you must enter your first and last NOOK name and default credit card number the first time you open digital content secured with a specific name and credit card.

You only need to enter the information one time, not for every eBook. Page 94 NOOK for new issues of periodicals. NOOK This requires a wireless connection. You can place the items in your library on shelves that you create. For example, you might want to create shelves. Or you could place your favorite eBooks on a Page 96 You can create, reorder, rename, and remove shelves.

This takes you to the start of the shelf; it does not re-order shelves. Shelf names are not case sensitive and are displayed in entered case in the menus and in uppercase on the reading screen.

Page 97 Before managing shelves, you might want to show them if they are hidden. To create a shelf: On the Home menu, tap library. You can create a shelf from either section of your library. Optionally, tap The item is highlighted on the reading screen. Tap a shelf or shelves as follows. If a scroll bar is present, scroll the menus to see all of the shelves. If you are on the last item on a page, you can tap the Down button to turn to the next page.

If you are on the first item on a page, you can tap the Up button to turn to the prior page. This is not a phrase search. The search must match all of the words, but in any order and in any of the fields that are searched. Tap the cover in the center of the gallery to read the item. If the item has not been downloaded to your , your displays item details. An eBook is retained in your online digital library.

NOOK You still own the content and retain the rights to it. A periodical issue is saved it will not be automatically deleted in the future and you retain the rights to the issue. To save a copy of Page Show archived items. Navigate to the content item you want to archive. If it is grayed out, it is already archived. If it is not grayed out, you can archive it. Tap Archive. Page Managing Subscriptions Hide archived items.

Managing Subscriptions You can purchase subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, as well as single issues. Page If not, Show archived items. Browse to an issue of the periodical.

It can be any issue; it does not have to be the most recent issue. View older issues. Page Your online digital library keeps up to a specific number of issues of a periodical delivered by subscription explained above and automatically deletes older issues unless you save them. You can save any issue that you want to save, and any number of issues.

To save an issue, it must be in on your. Page My Documents , deletes it from other devices associated with the NOOK account, and flags the item as archived in your library. Page NOOK move them. The My Documents section of your library is not a view of the files and folders, but of information about the files. It is a flat view, a list. The hierarchy is not reflected in the list. Page To view item details for eBooks and periodicals: In the My Documents section of your library, navigate to the item for which you want to view details.

Your displays limited available details about the file, possibly NOOK including the publisher, publication date, and file path. To use ADE, you need an Adobe account.

You can find information about ADE, and download the software, here: www. Page Reading PDF documents can support rotated pages, though this is not common and not especially useful for eBooks. In such a PDF, one or more pages and possibly an entire document can have pages that have been rotated 90 degrees clockwise, 90 degrees counterclockwise, or degrees. If you hold it with one hand, rest that hand or arm on something, for example, your leg. One way of holding your is shown in this drawing.

You will probably use the Previous Page buttons less frequently, but when you do, position your hands so that reaching a button is not a strain. Page Go to Documents. Move the selection indicator up and down on the reading screen using the Up and Down buttons. Page Navigating Touch a spot on the touchscreen with your finger already moving sideways.

If the publisher specifies a text font, then the content is displayed in that font if the font is embedded in the content.

You cannot change the font in which a PDF file is displayed. The six sizes are the same from file to file. Medium in one eBook is the same as Medium in the next one. The other sizes are the same as well. An attempt is made to display images in other text sizes than Small, but image display is not guaranteed in other text sizes. Page Opening Password-Secured Pdf Files 10 eBooks last year with a credit card ending in , and another 10 eBooks this year with a credit card ending in , then when you open one of the eBooks from last year, you will need to enter the credit card ending in , and when you open one of the eBooks from this year, you will need to enter the credit card ending in When you read, your turns off the radios.

If you are reading when your But the pages are re-flowed, so a page from the book might start in the middle of the page in the eBook. A page in the book also might be smaller or larger than will fit on one page of the eBook. Page Finding Words And Phrases You can search for occurrences of words and phrases in what you read.

Searches do not consider the case of words. It is best if you do not include punctuation in the phrases. Page Looking Up Words Collegiate dictionary. You cannot look up words in PDF files. Page Tap Keyboard. Enter the word you want to look up and tap Search. The definition is displayed in a dialog panel overlaying the reading content. A definition can be more than one page in length.

Move between pages using the Next Page and Previous Page buttons. Click the badge to lend the eBook. Lending an eBook You lend an eBook to a friend with an email address. You can choose one of the friends contacts in Settings you have previously defined, or you can specify a new email address. Page Browse to the item you want to lend, or search and then browse. Page Borrowing An Ebook On A If a friend offers to lend you a book, you receive a lending offer notification among the notifications in The Daily.

You have seven calendar days to accept or decline the offer. At the beginning of the seventh day, you receive a warning that the lending offer will expire today At the beginning of the eighth calendar day, the lending offer expires.

Page Navigate to what you want to read. Tap Select. If the item has already been downloaded, it opens in the Reader. If it has not been downloaded, tap Download.

After the item downloads, tap Read. Page When someone has lent you a book, it is in your library. It has a indicator next to it. Returning a Borrowed eBook An eBook that is lent to you is returned automatically after 14 days at the beginning of the 15th calendar day.

You also cannot bookmark eBooks that you are reading with Read In Store. A page with a bookmark has this symbol in the upper right corner of the page, just below the reading status bar:. A note is text that you can optionally associate with a highlight. The text says what it says, but you might have something to say about it. To add additional highlights on the same page of a PDB document, repeat steps 2 through 5, and tap Cancel when you are done. To add additional highlights on the same page in an ePub document, repeat steps 1 through 5.

Page To return to the page and menus, tap Cancel. To edit a note but not change the highlight: Navigate to the page. Next highlight Previous highlight to step through highlights until you reach the highlight that has the note you want to edit. Page Rating Write reviews of eBooks in the eBookstore or in your library Rating eBooks and Periodicals You can rate eBooks and periodicals that you own from the detail page for an item in your library.

To rate an item: On the Home menu, tap library. Page Web Browsing Web pages display on the reading screen. A part of the page is also displayed on the touchscreen. The part on the touchscreen is indicated by a black rectangle on the reading screen. The rectangle can be displayed only when you are moving the web page the default or all the time, based on the browser setting Hide location indicator.

Page Tool Bar Links are indicated by the means used on the web pages, for example, a difference in color, an underline, or both.

When you tap a link, an orange box is drawn around the link, and the requested page loads. Choosing a Web Page The main way of choosing web pages is to move from one page to a linked page. Tap a link on the current page to display the page that is linked to. Page Zooming In And Out Zooming In and Out When a web page is first displayed after starting the browser, it is displayed at a size that fits the page width.

You can zoom in and out to change the size of the text and graphics. Swipe the favorites to find the one you want to edit. Center the favorite you want to edit, but do not tap it when it is in the center. The end of the URL might also be truncated. You can view the entire URL by adding a favorite for the page. Page Games This is the chess board. In this case, you are white and the is black. From left to right, the NOOK pieces in the first rank row 1 are the rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook.

The second rank row 2 consists of pawns. Page Moves: To move, tap the piece you want to move on the touchscreen, and then tap the position you want to move it to.

To change your mind about the piece to move before moving it, just tap a different piece. You can undo a move by tapping Undo. Page Play against nook. Starting and Resuming Games When you leave the Chess application using the Back button or by tapping the Home button, your pauses the chess game the timer controls stop and the last positions are remembered.

NOOK To start a chess game, tap Page Sudoku If the move is a permitted one, the piece moves. To undo a move: If you make a move and do not like it, you can undo it. You can even undo it after the NOOK makes its move. To undo a move, tap Undo. Page Easy, Medium, Hard, or Extreme to begin the game. If a game is in progress when you exit Sudoku by tapping the Back button or Home button, the in- progress game is saved. When you play Sudoku again, the saved game resumes.

Page For example, you might have entered a 7 in a square, failing to observe that there is already a 7 further down in the same column, Entering Notes Before entering values in squares, you might want to enter notes. Page If Notes mode is not active the Notes button is gray , tap Notes. The Notes button and numbers turn blue.

Tap the numbers you want to enter as notes. The numbers are toggles. If you tap a number and change your mind, tap the number again.

This can result in files that are corrupted or not copied. If this happens, turn off your NOOK completely and turn it on again. Page Audio Listen to your favorite music while reading, or while doing other things with your , such as NOOK browsing your library or shopping.

Open the audio player by tapping Page Playlist Tap the Play icon to play the currently selected audio file, or tap the Playlist icon to view the playlist and choose an audio file to play. When you choose the file, it starts playing and the audio player is displayed. If not available, the file name is displayed. Here is the audio player: From left to right, the controls are Page Position: Tap the Position button to display or change the current position in the track. To change the current position in the track, tap the desired position on the position slider, or touch the ball, move your finger to the desired position, and then raise your finger.

Use the file manager on your personal computer to manage files and folder. Page Electronic storage media sometimes fail to preserve your files. They encounter magnetic fields that are too feisty, get dropped from boats into lakes, and get stolen.

It is a good idea to keep copies of the personal files on your on your computer. Page Adding Storage 2. The class should be mentioned on the packaging for the microSD card and printed on the card itself. Page The Home Screen And The Daily Shelf The top portion of the Home Screen consists of three panels of open space you can use for keeping books, maga- zines, newspapers, and apps close at hand.

Only one Home Screen panel is visible at a time. Page Reading Books, Magazines, And Newspapers On Your Nook The Reading Tools menu makes it easy to move through a book, to search for content, share content, adjust the display of text, and adjust the brightness of the screen. To call up the Reading Tools menu, tap anywhere in the center of the page. Page 36 Text - Lets you adjust the font, the font size, the font color, and the background color of your reading material.

Page 37 Tap the brightness icon in the Reading Tools to open a slider for adjusting the brightness of the screen. When you have finished dragging the slider, tap anywhere on the page to close the slider window. Page Using Bookmarks A blue ribbon appears in the corner of the page, indicating that a bookmark has been placed.

A bookmark symbol appears when you tap in the upper right corner of the page. By placing a bookmark, you make it easier to return to a location in your book. Page 40 Display the list of bookmarks by tapping the Contents icon in the Reading Tools, then tapping the Bookmarks tab.

Tap the Clear All button in the lower left corner of the bookmarks list. A dialog box opens asking you to confirm that you want to clear all the bookmarks. Tap OK. Page 41 The word appears highlighted, and two vertical bars will appear on either side of it, defining the start and end of the selected text.

At the same time, the Text Selection Toolbar appears, as shown below. A selected word and the Text Selection Toolbar. Page 42 By dragging with your thumb and forefinger, you can grow or shrink selected text as you like. When you lift your fingers after resizing the text selection, the Text Selection Toolbar re-appears. Page Using Notes Press and hold on a word at the beginning or end of the passage you want to write a note about. The Text Selection Toolbar appears. Lift your finger, then drag one of the vertical bars to other end of the passage.

The Text Selection Toolbar appears again. Page 45 Removing a Note To remove a note, do this: Tap on the highlighted word or phrase associated with the note. A pop-up menu appears. Tap the Remove Note menu choice. Your NOOK deletes the note. Tap Done. Your NOOK displays a list of search results. Page 47 Tap the center of the page to make the Reading Tools appear. Tap the text icon. Your NOOK opens a window displaying font and color controls. Tap the controls to select the font, font size, and background color you want.

Page 48 Move the slider to the left to dim the screen. Move the slider to the right to brighten the screen. When you have adjusted the brightness to your liking, tap the center of the page again to make the brightness controls and the Reading Tools disappear. EPUB is an industry standard format for eBooks. When you see a video clip on a page, tap the triangle to start playing the video. You can turn this feature on or off through a checkbox on the Reader Settings screen.

Page Reading A Nook Kids Book Slide your finger right or left across the thumbnail images to find the page you want to read. Tap the thumbnail image of the page.

The book displays the page you selected. The scrollable panel disappears. In Read by Myself mode, the picture book will not play an audio track or play any ani- mations. You can trigger activities, if available, by tapping the white star when it appears at the top of the screen. Page 55 To zoom in on text and images, simply pinch out to stretch the image on screen.

Tap and slide to move your focus around the screen. Double-tap to return to viewing the page at its normal size and position. Tapping twice on a text area enlarges that text. Page 57 Tap the Activity button to start or stop the activity. The front cover of a Read and Play book. A page of a Read and Play book displaying the Activity button at the top of the page.

Page 58 Do not cover up the microphone with your hand when recording. Page 59 Tap Yes. When you have finished recording, press Stop. Type the name for the recording. Tap Save. You recordings appear in the lower left corner of the screen. Page 61 Tap the Edit button on the picture of the recording you want to edit. Page 62 If you tapped Delete, a dialog box opens, asking you to confirm you want to delete the recording.

Tap Yes to delete the recording. Next to the title My recordings, tap the word Done when you have finished editing or deleting recordings.

To clear the list of bookmarks, tap the Clear all bookmarks button at the bottom of the bookmarks list.

Page Reading A Magazine Display a slider tool for adjusting the brightness of the screen. To view a page without the Reader Tools and thumbnail images, tap in the center of the current page or tap on the thumbnail of the page you want to read next.

Page 65 To navigate to another article in Article View, tap in the center of the page to open the Reader Tools, then tap on the Content icon. Page Reading A Newspaper The Reading Tools also include a slider that lets you scroll quickly through the newspaper. As you drag your finger along the slider, section titles and page numbers appear in a bubble so you can quickly find the page you want.

Bookmarking Pages You can bookmark a page in a newspaper article by tapping in the upper right corner of the page. To access your library, tap the Library icon on the Quick Nav Bar. The Library. Archiving an item keeps only descriptive information about the item, such as its cover, on your NOOK. You will be able to read it the moment it is released.

When you have finished adding or removing items, tap Save. Tap the My Shelves menu choice. Using any other cable might damage your NOOK. Recommendations for My Files After you transfer documents, Office files, photos, videos, or audio clips to your NOOK, keep back-up copies on your personal computer.

The picture below shows the nav bar, along with the Add Friend and All Friends buttons. Page 80 To learn more about a book, periodical, or app mentioned in these activities, tap its cover or icon. Slide your finger up or down the screen to scroll through the list if it extends off the screen.

This page lists the books you own that are available for lending. To lend a book, tap the LendMe button. Page 86 If you do not have any books in one of these categories for example, books that you have lent , then your NOOK does not display that shelf.

The picture below shows an example of the LendMe screen of the Library. Page 87 If the toggle switch says Show, your friends can see the book in a list of lendable books. Page 88 The image below shows the privacy controls for a list of lendable books. Page 89 In the pop-up menu, tap on the menu choice LendMe. A dialog box opens, explaining the terms of the LendMe offer, and asking if you want to reach your friend through your Contacts list or through Facebook.

Tap on the book cover to read the details of the offer and to accept it. The Requests shelf shows the books that friends would like to borrow.

Tap this button to confirm that you want to buy the item. If the search engine finds more entries than will fit on the screen, scroll through the search engine results by dragging your finger up or down.

Once you have confirmed your purchase, your NOOK downloads the issue. The Confirm button changes to a button labeled Read.

Tap the Read button to begin reading the issue. Page Using Your Wishlist Wishlist. Tap the Confirm button to complete your purchase. Page As shown below, a pull-down menu in the Search tool lets you select specific types of information to search.

The Show pull-down menu in the Search tool. Tap on the letter-mark combination you want. The pop-up window disappears, and the letter you selected appears in the text field where you were typing.

Page Displaying a list of additional options for adding a bookmark, searching on a page, displaying Page Info the title and URL of the current page , displaying a list of Downloads, and jumping to the Settings screen for configuring your browser. The Options Menu in the Browser. The Location field already contains the URL for the Web page you are bookmarking, so you do not need to type anything in the Location field.

A dialog box opens, listing the five text sizes supported by the browser. Tap the name of the text size you want. Click OK. Your NOOK displays a keypad for setting up a restrictions passcode. This is the passcode you will enter before disabling or re-enabling the Web browser. The Re- strictions screen appears again, this time with the Restrictions checkbox checked, and the Browser checkbox no longer grayed out.

Page To re-enable the Web browser after you have disabled it, do this: In the Quick Nav Bar, tap the Settings button to call up the Settings screen. On the Settings screen, tap the Security menu choice. You can turn this blocking feature on and off by toggling a configuration option on the Settings screen. Look for the menu choice Block pop-up windows in the first group of configuration options, which are labeled Page content settings.

A dialog box opens. Tap the browser mode you want to use. The dialog box closes, and your choice takes effect right away. You can enter simply your email address and a pass- word and let your NOOK automatically configure your account with those credentials, or you can manually configure the account yourself.

Page In the Server name field, enter the name of the server. Page Account menu at the top of Email screen and selecting the name of the account you want to switch You can also select Combined Inbox to see all your messages from your accounts in a single Inbox folder.

The Inbox selection menu and other email controls. Page Once the checkbox is checked, tap the Delete icon a trash can in the upper right corner of the screen. A dialog box appears, asking you to confirm that you want to delete the account. Page Composing And Sending A Message In the Bcc field, enter the addresses of any people to whom you want to send copies of the message without disclosing their addresses to other message recipients.