Questions tagged [nook]
The nook is the ebook device developed and sold by Barnes & Nobel since 2009. Questions about nook can include device specific problems or features.
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iPhone 14 Nook Orientation Problem
Recently my nook app on my iPhone 14 switched to landscape mode. Normally, you just change the orientation of the phone to change the viewing mode. But it seems stuck there. It is very annoying. ...
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Can Nook Read Kobo Books and Vise Versa?
I've been a Kindle user for years, but have had some frustration with Amazon lately and am thinking I want to diversify a bit by buying some other eReader. If I understand correctly, both Nook and ...
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How to tell whether a Google Play eBook is bootlegged/pirated?
How can I tell if a Google Play Book is legit, i.e. submitted or sold by the author, publisher, or party with permission, and not a malware linking/containing or deliberately misleadingly edited ...
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Nook HD+ Keyboard Issue
Currently I am having massive amounts of problems with my Nook.
It's a NOOK HD plus BNTV600 I had received from my mother to try and fix. She says that while downloading a new update it had shut down ...
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How can I add a European card to my nook?
I bought a nook in the USA and I live in Ireland. I would like to buy online books from B&N but my credit card is from Ireland.
How can I add a European card to my nook?
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How to send library ebooks from Calibre to Nook
Since I went from Vista to a new laptop and Windows 10, Adobe Digital Editions won't let me download books from my local library. I have signed up with Calibre, but can't figure out how to transfer ...
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Is it possible to emulate the firmware of ereader devices?
I'd like to know if it is possible to emulate the firmware of the various available ereader devices, and run them from a personal computer.
I'd like to know this mainly to try and compare them and ...
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How can I read local html files on my 1st Edition Nook?
I know that the 1st Edition Nook (OS version 1.7) does not have the capability to read .html files via the ebook reader. However, it seems to be able to read local .html files from the browser. I know ...
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How do you make paragraphs break in iBooks or Nook?
I have just finished the long and arduous task of typesetting a book using quarkXpress2015. While everything is beautiful on-screen and as a PDF, things get ugly when exporting as ePub for ebooks. I'...
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Nook Simple Touch, Zoom On Picture
I have a Nook Simple Touch. One of my .epub files contains an image. The image is pretty small. How do I zoom in on it?
(With a Nook Color, I double-tap to zoom, but this doesn't seem to work on ...
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google ebooks from linux to ereader
I am considering a ereader (nook) where I can read my ebooks downloaded from google-play books.
Only problem is when I download .epub from Google Play Store, I actually get an .acsm file, not .epub, ...
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font color not showing up on color Nook for new eBook epub
I Mm an author and I hired a formatter to take my pdf book and convert it to epub and mobi so I can sell the eBook on Amazon. I am not technical so please bear with me.
The formatter sent me a draft ...
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Can I transfer my Purchased Nook library to Kindle or other Service?
I have a Nook account and library with over 100 purchased titles. I really would like to take advantage of some of the features of the Kindle Fire but I do not want to give up my current library ...
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What CSS can I use to change the background color of an epub on a Nook HD?
I'm having a really hard time changing the background color of my epub on the Nook HD.
I've tried doing:
body {
background-color: red;
}
(Not that I would actually use red, I just want to see a ...
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Syncing epub reader [duplicate]
What epub readers will sync between my Android phone and rooted Nook Simple Touch? (I mean my place in a book, not the books themselves.)
I tried PageTurner - and, while it works, it's ugly as sin. ...
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Any way to sync sideloaded books between Android and Nook Touch?
See title ... Is it possible?
Not the book itself... The bookmark of which page I'm on.
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Using Nook outside the US
I bought a Nook and I live in Mexico, I've read that you need a credit card to purchase books, but I don't want to buy books from b&n, my question is: do I need to add a credit card in order to ...
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Nook Simple Touch: erratic or unresponsive touch-screen
I have had a rooted (with NookManager) Nook Simple Touch that worked perfectly until I went travelling across tropical countries. Since then, I have seen a progressive degradation of the touchscreen, ...
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Why/Where is calibre writing author/title in metadata when saving to device?
When I connect my device Simple Touch Nook, I send a book to my device using the calibre management software. Although I have the template {title} - {authors} set for sending to device, when I open ...
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Nook read 37 files in ePub as 37 chapters instead of 11 in toc.ncx
Nook read 37 files in my ePub as 37 chapters instead of 11 chapters as set out in toc.ncx (NCX file) -- the ToC as presented by Nook lists filenames for all the chapters that do not have navPoint / ...
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Automatic transfer of annotations in sideloaded book in Nook Android app
I have a couple non-Nook Android devices with the Nook app installed on them -- a tablet and a phone -- and several epub books that I read and annotated on the tablet. I was surprised, when I copied ...
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Epub file not turning pages on nook devices
OK, I'm having a very strange problem with a reflowable epub file I'm creating. It displays fine on most reading systems, but on the Nook, it will not advance pages across chapter breaks. Instead, it ...
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Is the file size limit for Nook epub files still 600MB?
Is the maximum file size for epubs sold through Barnes&Noble (via a publisher account) still 600MB?
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What information does B&N collect about my Nook Usage?
My wife and I both have nooks attached to the same account. I have noticed that the when I open up a book that I have been reading on her Nook(usually because I let my battery go dead) that it knows ...
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How can I access a web browser on the Nook Simple Touch?
I have a Nook Simple Touch and am frustrated by its lack of a web browser. I want to download ePub files from websites and read them on my Nook. I know there is supposed to be no web browser ...
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What settings are the most energy efficient on a Nook Color?
I have seen some touch screen readers that have a gray on black background scheme that helps to reduce the power consumption and increase battery life. But those settings do not really exist on the ...
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Can books be transferred from Nooks to Kindles and back?
I'm currently using a Nook, but considering switching to Kindle hardware. Is there a simple way to keep books synced across devices, or at least to move purchased ebooks from one to the other?
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How to read text files on nook?
I can read text files directly on my Amazon Kindle, but apparently not
on my Barnes/Noble Nook.
Is there some setting/etc I can tweak to read text files on the Nook?
Or do I just need to convert ...
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My Nook Simple Touch screen is no longer responding to touch reliably. How can I fix it?
Over the course of several months, my Nook Simple Touch became less and less responsive to touch. It also became more and more sensitive to temperature conditions of my fingers and the environment.
I ...
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How do I easily convert and send PDFs to a Nook GlowLight or SimpleTouch's native format
Amazon makes it easy to convert PDFs and send to Kindle in the Kindle's native format. How to do this (simply!) on a Nook?
I do know conversion is possible with tools such as Calibre but I was ...
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