My kids love to read, so my wife and I picked up a nook. I went to a website that has PDF's and epubs for free download. The thing appears to download it, but I can't find the books. How do I get books on this thing? There was something about some app that I read on the interwebs, do I really have to (buy?) d'load a app to turn the nook into a nook?
When I bought a car, I didn't have to buy an engine to make it work.....wait, I normally do but that's not the point.
Root it and install a full android rom
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=encore
for books? check local library will allow checking out Ebooks. go talk to them
This page http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-transfer-pdfs-to-a-nook.html says "If you can't find the PDF on your Nook, make sure you select "Check for new content" from the My Documents screen."
Grtechguy wrote: Root it and install a full android rom http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=encore for books? check local library will allow checking out Ebooks. go talk to them
Huh wha? Is that like an engine swap? is that a new OS I'd be putting on?
stuart in mn wrote: This page http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-transfer-pdfs-to-a-nook.html says "If you can't find the PDF on your Nook, make sure you select "Check for new content" from the My Documents screen."
I've not tried to do that my my computer, I tried d'loading them using the nook itself.
I was thinking it was a place to eat breakfast. Or a nooner. Which are sort of the same thing I guess. Or not...
DrBoost wrote:Grtechguy wrote: Root it and install a full android rom http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=encore for books? check local library will allow checking out Ebooks. go talk to themHuh wha? Is that like an engine swap? is that a new OS I'd be putting on?
Kinda..it will change how it looks and add all sorts of functionality. Think megasquirt
Yep, bought a refurb'd Nook Color for $75.
Downloaded a boot image to my PC and used it to prep my microSD card.
Copied the Android ROM file to the card.
Booted the Nook from the mSD card, wiped the Nook and the user cache.
Installed Android ROM from the SD.
Shut down Nook, removed SD card and boot Nook.
Once Nook starts, plug SD card in and follow the onscreen prompts to configure Android.
I don't think I want to do that. This is brand new and I have NO idea what I'm doing.
Am I missing something. If you have a Nook, can you go to a website and d'load a book and read it? If not, I'm taking this stupid thing back. With my phone, I didn't have to download something, or jump through hoops to make a phone call. That's what it was made for.
The nook is going to work flawlessly on Barns and Nobles web site and at their store. They want you to buy your books from them so they make it super easy just like Kindle does. If you get them from anyone else, you are probably going to have to jump through some hoops to read them.
A lot of the non DRM books and free books are ePub or PDF files. Here is a site that will walk you through reading them on a Nook.
http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Resolved-Issues-Archived/How-to-read-Adobe-PDF-and-Adobe-ePub-books/td-p/503848
These issues are part of the reason I bought a Android tablet rather than a proprietary E-reader. Android doesn't limit you the way Nook and Kindle do.
Another thing you might look at is Baen Books has a free library here. They allow you to download books in the Nook's format as well as any other format. They've told the DRM crowd to stick it and are distributing the books themselves.
Thanks Toyman. Sounds like the thing to do is use the android OS, but if I screw it up (I'm good at that sort of thing) my wife will thump my melon a good one!
I don't know for sure, but I think you can boot to the Android OS off the SD card without actually rooting the Nook.
Yep, read this. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392968,00.asp
You can boot off the SD card without changing the software on the nook. That way if you screw it up, the tablet isn't crashed. You just reboot off the internal memory and it goes back to being a Nook.
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