NOOK HD User manual

Patrick Kanouse
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The NOOK Book
An Unofficial Guide Fourth Edition

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Table of Contents
Introduction vi
PART I NOOK HD+ and NOOK HD
1Getting Started with Your NOOK HDs 1
2Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK HDs 15
3Reading on Your NOOK HDs and Beyond 49
4Using Highlights, Bookmarks, and Annotations 89
5Reading and Using NOOK Books for Kids Features 97
6Lending and Borrowing Books with LendMe
on Your NOOK HDs 103
7Playing Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts 111
8Watching Videos on Your NOOK HDs 119
9Using NOOK Apps and Surfing the Web 129
10 Using Catalogs and Scrapbooks 147
11 Creating and Using Profiles and Your NOOK Today 153
12 Using the Social Features of Your NOOK HDs 161
13 Shopping and Visiting B&N on Your NOOK HDs 175
PART II NOOK Simple Touch
14 Getting Started with Your NOOK Simple Touch 185
15 Customizing and Configuring Your NOOK Simple Touch 191
16 Reading on Your NOOK Simple Touch and Beyond 201
17 Lending and Borrowing Books with LendMe
on Your NOOK Simple Touch 213
18 Using Highlights, Bookmarks, and Annotations 217
19 Using the Social Features of Your NOOK Simple Touch 221
20 Shopping and Visiting B&N on Your NOOK Simple Touch 225
21 Rooting Your NOOK Simple Touch 231
PART III Beyond the NOOKs
22 Reading Beyond Your NOOK: Mobile Apps 239
23 Reading Beyond Your NOOK: Desktop Apps 289
24 Managing Your ebooks with Calibre 327
25 Using My NOOK Library 337
26 Using PubIt to Sell Your ebooks 347
27 Reading Beyond Your NOOK: NOOK App for Windows 8 351
AUnderstanding ebook Formats 369
BSources for ebooks Other than B&N 373
CCan I Read This Here? 377
Index 379
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About the Author
Patrick Kanouse works as the director of workflow services 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®, and writing about his NOOK, he writes sci-
ence fiction and poetry, having published a PubIt™book at BN.com that you can read
on your NOOK. His website is patrickkanouse.com. You can find him on Twitter at
@patrickkanouse.
Patrick lives in Westfield, Indiana, with his wife and two Yorkies.
Dedication
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
or dragging her to the latest science fiction movie. Without her support and encour-
agement, nothing that I attempt would be possible.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Loretta Yates for asking me to revise and write this edition. Given the pace
of writing this edition, I must give substantial thanks to the book team for taking my
initial words and making them much better: Todd Brakke, Betsy Harris, San Dee
Phillips, and everyone in production.
Thank you to Jeff at the Noblesville B&N store for his patience as I walked in one
morning desperate to get my hands on a NOOK®HD+.
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Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the NOOK®HD, NOOK HD+, or NOOK
Simple Touch™, Barnes & Noble’s (simply B&N from here on) ebook readers. The
NOOK HD+ and NOOK HD, released in November 2012, are a complete redesign of
the NOOK Tablet™and NOOK Color™, which debuted September 2011. Both the
NOOK HDs feature high-definition color touch screens. The NOOK Simple Touch,
which first went on sale in June 2011 and was updated in 2012 with GlowLight, fea-
tures an E Ink reading display that bears a remarkable resemblance to paper. The
NOOK HDs resemble a tablet like the iPad or Google Nexus, but B&N has intention-
ally focused it as an ereading device, so although it has apps and video and music,
B&N has designed the NOOK HDs to be readers. This focuses attention on the read-
ing experience of books, newspapers, and magazines while keeping the price down.
The NOOK HDs are an attempt to balance the features of the tablet with the immer-
sive experience of reading. With the high-definition display, you can read text so
clearly that you may think it is better than paper. The NOOK HD+ and NOOK HD
differ in size, but they pack in all the same software and features.
Beyond releasing the new devices, two other related items are worth mentioning.
Since B&N has been releasing ereading devices, the company has never sold video
content. With the release of the NOOK Tablet, it included apps for Netflix and Hulu
Plus, but those services (although great) could not boast as wide a selection as some
would prefer. In addition, you could not purchase and download movies and TV
shows to watch when you have no Internet connection. In November 2012, B&N
released NOOK Video™. This service, which debuts on the NOOK HDs and will have
a separate app for laptops and other tablets eventually, will fill in a large gap in
B&N’s offerings compared to other tablets.
The other item is the introduction of profiles. Most tablets and ereading devices are
set up for one person—all content is available to anyone with access to the tablet. But
what if you are a family that shares a device? You may not want your 4 year old to
watch R-rated movies at the touch of a button—or rack up credit card bills by buying
all sorts of content. This is where profiles come in. On the NOOK HDs, up to six pro-
files can be created. Child profiles in particular offer customizable parental controls.
The NOOK Simple Touch is a simple-to-use device slightly bigger than a paperback
book. Because it is not backlit, you can easily read a book in bright sunlight with lit-
tle glare. If you have the NOOK Simple Touch™with GlowLight™, however, you can
turn on a built-in light that softly illuminates the screen, allowing you to read in dim

light or complete darkness. 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.
This book is intended to give you all the information you need to get the most out of
your NOOK, whichever version you have, and the associated supporting applications.
You not only learn how to use your NOOK, but you also learn all the best places to
get books and other content. After you’ve learned all the great resources available for
books, you’ll quickly find that you need a way to organize your ebooks, so you also
learn how to do that using a free tool called Calibre.
By the time you finish this book, you’ll be comfortable with all aspects of your
NOOK. Following are some of the many things you can learn how to do in this book:
.Add your own pictures for use as a wallpaper or screensaver.
.Use B&N’s unique LendMe®feature to lend and borrow books.
.Play music, audiobooks, podcasts, and more.
.Watch video, including Netflix and Hulu Plus.
.Read your ebooks on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android tablet,
Android phone, and computer.
.Get books (many free) from many sources on the Internet, and load them
onto your NOOK.
.Manage all your ebooks, and update author and title information if needed.
.Automatically download full-color covers for your books that display on
your NOOK.
.Use your NOOK HDs to browse the web.
.Use your NOOK HDs to read enhanced books and children’s books. You
can even record your own readings of your child’s favorite books.
.Use highlights, annotations, and bookmarks.
.Use the NOOK Friends™app to see what your fellow friends are up to.
.Set up profiles.
.Build scrapbooks from pages of catalogs and magazines.
.Learn how to publish your books using B&N’s PubIt feature.

viii The NOOK Book
This book is divided into three parts:
.Part I, “NOOK HD+ and NOOK HD,” focuses exclusively on using the
NOOK HDs. The NOOK HDs are identical except for their size. Thus,
while reading this part, when you read about the NOOK, it is for either the
NOOK HD+ or NOOK HD.
.Part II, “NOOK Simple Touch,” focuses on using the NOOK Simple Touch.
.Part III, “Beyond the NOOKs,” focuses on using the NOOK-related apps,
Calibre, and B&N’s PubIt.
Mixed in with all this, you can find plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the most
from your NOOK.
NOTE: Writing this book presents a unique challenge. The E Ink NOOK has
some limitations with images. Although the images do appear, complex images
or images with lots of information can be tedious to see. The NOOK HDs, how-
ever, present images in a much better fashion, as do the related NOOK Reading
Apps™. Therefore, for all aspects of the NOOK HDs and NOOK Apps, the use of
images will be more substantial than with the NOOK Simple Touch chapters. I
used NOOK HD+ to create the images.
NOTE: Throughout this book, you encounter the terms ebook and NOOK Book;
ebook will be used generically. NOOK Books™is what B&N calls its version of
ebooks that it sells through B&N. These are still ebooks, and NOOK Book is
more of a marketing piece, but the distinction is useful because only NOOK
Books sync between devices and support social features. Also, only NOOK
Books are visible in My NOOK®Library on BN.com.
It’s my hope that you don’t have any questions about using your NOOK after
reading this book, but if you do, please don’t hesitate to send me an email at
[email protected]. I’ll gladly help if I can. You can also find me on
Twitter at @patrickkanouse. Finally, my blog, http://patrickkanouse.blogspot.com/,
has a section devoted to updates as I get them related to this book, so check in every
so often.
Thank you for buying The NOOK Book!

CHAPTER 1
Getting Started with Your
NOOK HDs
Before getting into the details of using your NOOK HD+ or NOOK HD, take a look
at some of the basics: gestures, setup, and basic navigation. With these basics in
place, you can then discover all the other incredible things your NOOK HD+ or
NOOK HD can do.
NOTE: I simply refer to these devices as NOOK. The two are identical in func-
tionality. The only difference is screen size.
NOTE: Barnes & Noble uses a lowercase nwhen it spells NOOK and for the
NOOK’s logo.
Understanding NOOK Gestures
You control the NOOK, excepting the Power button, Home button, and volume con-
trols by gestures:
.Tap: This is the most common gesture. Just press your finger to the screen
and raise it. Usually, you use this gesture with buttons and covers.
.Press and hold: This is the same as the tap gesture, but instead of raising
your finger, you hold it to the screen for a couple of seconds. This often
opens an additional menu from which to choose by a tap, but you can
encounter other results from a press and hold.
.Swipe left/swipe right: The gesture is mostly for turning pages. Like a tap,
touch your finger on the screen and quickly drag it to the left (or right) and
lift your finger up.

.Scroll: Essentially the vertical version of the swipe gesture. You can control
the speed of the scroll by swiping up or down more rapidly. You can slow
down or stop the scroll by tapping the screen (to stop) or pressing and hold-
ing to slow the scroll.
.Pinch and zoom in/pinch and zoom out: This is a method to zoom in or
out on pictures, PDFs, web pages, and so on. To zoom in or show part of the
screen more closely, you place your index finger and thumb closely together
on the screen (that is, pinch) and then spread them apart. To zoom out or
show more of the screen, you do the pinch and zoom in gesture in reverse—
this is also called unpinch.
Setting Up and Registering Your NOOK
When you first turn on your NOOK, you are asked if you are in the UK or United
States. Tap the appropriate response.
The first step in getting started with your NOOK is to set up and register it with
Barnes & Noble (simply B&N from now on).
The next step is to set up the Wi-Fi access (see Figure 1.1). You can go to a B&N
store, and your NOOK will recognize its network and log on automatically. More
likely, though, you are at home, so you need to set up the NOOK to access your wire-
less network. Enter the required information. Tap Continue with Setup.
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FIGURE 1.1 Pick your Wi-Fi network.

NOTE: Want Wi-Fi access on the go? The NOOK and NOOK Wi-Fi need only a
wireless network to access the Daily (articles from B&N), subscription content,
and so on. Many wireless companies such as Verizon offer mobile Wi-Fi
hotspots at reasonable prices. A mobile hotspot uses the 3G or 4G cellular net-
work but treats it as a Wi-Fi connection, so you never need to be without wire-
less access.
For more information on connecting your NOOK to a Wi-Fi hotspot after your initial
set up, see “Using Wi-Fi Hotspots,” later in this chapter.
Now you need to pick your time zone. Then you see a screen to set your time zone
(see Figure 1.2). Choose your time zone and tap Next. The NOOK registers
with B&N.
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Setting Up and Registering Your NOOK
FIGURE 1.2 Pick your time zone.
You need to agree to the terms of service. Tap the check box for Yes, I Accept the
NOOK Terms of Service and tap Agree. After this, you land at the Do You Have a
NOOK Account screen. If you have an existing B&N account, tap Yes, I Have an
Account and enter your account information. Tap Submit. If you don’t have an
account, you can create one by tapping No, I Need to Create an Account. Fill out the
form and tap Submit (see Figure 1.3).

FIGURE 1.3 Create a B&N account if you do not already have one.
NOTE: You can also set up a B&N account on your computer by visiting
www.nooktablet.com/setup.
To register your NOOK, you also need to provide a default credit card with a valid
billing address to be associated with your B&N account.
After you have an account, you are asked to enter your interests. These are used later
by B&N to provide recommendations. You can select one or more. A screen about
building your library appears offering some free sample content. You can skip this or
tap the covers to receive the content.
You are then taken to the Home screen, and your NOOK is now set up for use.
Orienting Yourself to Your NOOK
Now orient yourself to the NOOK and the basic navigational features. You won’t get
the details about putting items on it and so on in the following sections, but you’ll get
there eventually. This is simply to orient you to common locations you revisit often in
this book.
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The Welcome Back Screen
After you set up your NOOK, whenever it goes to sleep or powers off, whenever you
wake it up or power it back on, you must unlock it. This occurs on the Welcome Back
screen. If the NOOK is asleep, pressing the Home button starts the Welcome Back
screen. If you power the NOOK on, after it completes the start sequence, you go to
the Welcome Screen.
From the Welcome Back screen, you can select the profile you want to start using
(profiles are covered in Chapter 11, “Creating and Using Profiles and Your NOOK
Today”). Click the icon of the profile and drag it toward the unlock icon in the mid-
dle. (The arrow from the profile icon points you in the correct direction.) If you set up
a lock sequence, enter the PIN and tap OK. The screen that appears is the Home
Screen.
Home Screen
This is the screen that appears after you unlock the NOOK. The Home screen is a
central location, and you interact with it a lot. The screen is divided into several sec-
tions (see Figure 1.4):
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Your NOOK Today
Active Shelf
Page
Quick Corner
Status bar
Profile
Launch buttons
Search box
FIGURE 1.4 The Home screen.

.Status bar: This is the top of the screen. You see whatever you name your
NOOK (Patrick’s NOOK in Figure 1.4). Also, you see notifications in the
middle of the screen. On the right side, you see the current time, Wi-Fi con-
nectivity, settings (the gear icon), and battery monitor.
.Profile: This is the icon or image, the date, and a welcome greeting on the
left side of the screen just below the status bar. You use this to change pro-
files outside of the Welcome Back screen.
.Your NOOK Today: This takes you to the Your NOOK Today screen
(covered next).
.Active Shelf: This is a carousel of large icons of recently accessed items,
new downloads and purchases, and so on. You can scroll through the Active
Shelf by swiping your finger left or right across it. Tap one of the icons to
launch the app, magazine, book, and such.
.Pages: You have five pages on the Home screen to do with as you please.
The Home screen is the middle of the five (you can see which page you are
on by looking at the dots immediately below the notifications in the status
bar; the white dot is the current page). On these pages you can add apps,
books, and more for quick access.
.Launch buttons: These are Library, Apps, Web, Email, and Shop. Tapping
these launches new screens. Depending on the profile, some of these Launch
buttons may not be visible.
.Search box: You can tap in here and begin typing for something you’re
searching for. This is an easy way to access your content.
.Quick Corner: By default, the Quick Corner action is the Recent Drawer.
However, you can set it to be Continue Reading. The Recent Drawer icon is
a filled in square overlapping the outline of a square. The Continue Reading
icon is a spread open book with a clock on the bottom right.
If you press and hold an empty area of the Home screen, the Add to Pages screen
appears. From here, you have a variety of options for accessing your content.
Recent Drawer
If your Quick Corner is set up for the Recent Drawer, if you tap the icon, the Home
screen goes dark, and the bottom third of the screen presents a scrollable list of the 50
most recently used and accessed apps, videos, books, and so on (see Figure 1.5).
When you tap Recent Drawer, you also have a magnifying glass to open a search
page. If you tap the Recent Drawer icon again, it closes the Recent Drawer and
returns you to the screen you were previously on. Use the Recent Drawer to quickly
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and easily access recent items without having to press the Home button and navigate
where you want to go.
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FIGURE 1.5 The Recent Drawer.
Add to Pages Screen
The Home screen enables you to access your library, app, and Internet bookmarks
quickly for placing onto one of the pages; to do so, you need to access the Add to
Pages screen (see Figure 1.6). To access this screen, press an area of the Home screen
without an image, and tap Add to Pages from the pop-up menu. The Home screen
shrinks and several options appear. For example of what you can do on this screen,
from the Add to Pages screen, tap Bookmarks. When the list of bookmarks appears,
scroll to the one you want, press and hold it, and drag it to the page. The bookmark is
added to the page, which lets you quickly launch it. Tap Done when complete.
FIGURE 1.6 The Add to Pages screen.

The Wallpapers option here is different, as discussed in Chapter 2, “Customizing and
Configuring Your NOOK HDs.”
Using Wi-Fi Hotspots
Your NOOK can connect to Wi-Fi networks other than the one you initially set up.
B&N offers free Wi-Fi access in all B&N stores. If you take your NOOK to a B&N
store, it can automatically connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot in that store.
For more information on using your NOOK in a B&N store, see Chapter 13,
“Shopping and Visiting B&N on Your NOOK HDs.”
To connect your NOOK to a Wi-Fi hotspot other than one in a B&N store, follow
these steps:
1. From the status bar, tap the Settings gear icon (see Figure 1.7).
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FIGURE 1.7 Access your Wi-Fi settings here.
2. In the Wi-Fi section, tap Change. If Wi-Fi is Off, tap Off to turn it On.
3. Tap the Wi-Fi hotspot you want to use. Your NOOK displays the SSID for
all Wi-Fi hotspots in range.

4. If required, enter the password for your Wi-Fi hotspot.
5. Tap Connect.
Your NOOK should now indicate that it is connected; you should see the Wi-Fi signal
indicator on the status bar on the bottom right next to the battery indicator.
If your Wi-Fi hotspot isn’t listed after you turn on Wi-Fi or is not in the list of
Wireless Networks, follow these steps:
1. From the status bar, tap the Settings gear icon.
2. Tap All Settings.
3. Tap Wireless & Bluetooth.
4. Tap Find Other Networks.
5. Tap Scan to refresh this list, or tap Add Network.
6. Enter the network service set identified (SSID), select the type of security (if
the Wi-Fi is secured), and enter the password for your Wi-Fi hotspot if nec-
essary. If you don’t know this information, ask the person who set up the
Wi-Fi network.
Your NOOK can connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot that requires you to browse to a web
page to authenticate yourself. For example, many hotel Wi-Fi hotspots require you to
enter a room number or other information to connect. You can connect to a Wi-Fi
hotspot that has this requirement by tapping the Web Launch Button from the Home
screen after you join the Wi-Fi network.
Does My NOOK’s Battery Drain Faster with Wi-Fi Connected?
I tested my NOOK’s battery life using Wi-Fi hotspots. In my testing, the battery
life was quite a bit shorter when using Wi-Fi than when not. However, Wi-Fi
affects battery life only when your NOOK is actually connected to a Wi-Fi
hotspot. Simply having Wi-Fi turned on doesn’t affect battery life.
You can significantly improve battery life by turning off Wi-Fi.
Disconnecting and Forgetting a Wi-Fi Hotspot
If you want to stop using a Wi-Fi hotspot, you have two options: disconnect or forget.
Disconnect just prevents your NOOK from connecting to that Wi-Fi hotspot.
Forgetting the hotspot removes the information about the hotspot from your NOOK.
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Using Wi-Fi Hotspots

If you later want to reconnect to that hotspot, you must set it up again. To disconnect
or forget a Wi-Fi hotspot, follow these steps:
1. From the status bar, tap the Settings icon.
2. If Wi-Fi is turned off, turn it on.
3. Tap the Wi-Fi hotspot. This displays a pop-up window.
4. Tap Forget to disconnect from the Wi-Fi hotspot.
For more information on configuring the settings on your NOOK (including turning
off the Wi-Fi card), see “Your NOOK’s Settings” in Chapter 2.
Charging and Caring for Your NOOK’s
Battery
Your NOOK uses a high-tech battery called a lithium polymer battery. You can charge
your NOOK’s battery either by plugging your NOOK into your computer’s USB port
or by plugging your NOOK into a wall outlet using the supplied AC adapter.
Plugging your NOOK into a wall outlet charges the NOOK quicker.
TIP: Just like any electronic device, your NOOK is susceptible to power spikes
and other electrical anomalies. If you want to ensure that your NOOK is pro-
tected from electrical problems, plug it into a surge suppressor when charging
the battery.
Unlike older rechargeable batteries, your NOOK’s battery doesn’t suffer from a
charge “memory.” However, you should still follow some basic rules to maximize the
life of your battery:
NOTE: Charge memory means that over time, a battery can store less power
because it thinks it’s full when it’s not. Essentially, most people don’t operate a
battery-powered device until it reaches zero over time. So, as they recharge it
over and over, the battery recalibrates what “zero” is—thus, the battery holds
less charge. This explains the instructions on such devices to occasionally
drain the battery completely.
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.Try to avoid fully discharging your battery. Recharge it when it gets down to
approximately 20% or so. Although charging it repeatedly is not necessarily
a bad thing, the battery seems to function optimally if you charge it only
when it drops down toward that 20% area.
.To maximize battery life, turn off Wi-Fi, and leave it off whenever you don’t
need it. Same goes with Bluetooth.
.Avoid high heat. Reading in sunlight is fine, but avoid storing your NOOK
near a heat source.
.If storing your NOOK for a long period (a week or more), charge the battery
to approximately 50% rather than giving it a full charge. The battery, even
off, slowly loses its charge—very slowly, but loses nonetheless. By charging
it to 50% only and then powering it off for a long time, it mimics how it was
initially packaged and shipped. The 50% will go away slowly, and when you
power it on again, it may have a low charge, but it is more like what the
“factory” setting would have been.
By following these instructions, your NOOK’s battery should last years. If you do
need to replace the battery, contact B&N Customer Service.
When You Are Not Reading
When you finish reading, you should let your NOOK go to sleep instead of turning it
off. You can force the NOOK to sleep by pressing and quickly letting go of the
Power button.
By leaving your NOOK on with Wi-Fi on, it will occasionally download content from
B&N such as subscription content and any books that you purchase from the B&N
website. When you’re ready to start reading again, simply press and release the power
switch at the top of your NOOK to wake it up. Alternatively, you can press the
Home button.
Your NOOK’s Controls
Before you enjoy content on your NOOK, let’s go over the controls on your NOOK
(see Figures 1.8 and 1.9). In general, you can interact with your NOOK using the
touch controls of tapping, pressing and holding, and swiping. The few physical but-
tons are minimal but provide some tactile controls. The most frequent button you are
likely to use is the Home button.
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