The installed web browser renders pages nicely but is pretty basic. Haven't found any free apps with that capability.
#HOW TO USE A KINDLE NOOK PDF#
If you hack the Nook Color you can install other PDF programs such as the free Adobe Reader X app, a fairly decent program for viewing PDFs, no editing or annotation though. You can zoom in, go to page, change to landscape mode, and fit-to-page and fit-to-width.
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There are options for zooming, search, jump to cell, worksheet, etc.Īt this point in time the Nook Color has very basic PDF support. The Nook Color uses Quickoffice for viewing Microsoft Office files.
#HOW TO USE A KINDLE NOOK DOWNLOAD#
You can even use the Nook's web browser to download them. The Nook also supports DRM-free EPUB and PDF ebooks downloaded from various free ebook websites. You can get ebooks from a wide range of ebook stores and even get free ebooks from local libraries using a service called Overdrive. The Nook Color supports EPUB and PDF ebooks in Adobe DRM so you aren't limited to just Barnes and Noble's ebook store. There are different list views and sorting options too. There's a browse icon that lists all the categories for quickly moving from different sections of the store. The touchscreen makes finding what you are looking for easy. Navigating through B&N's integrated ebook store on the Nook Color is one of its strong points. The colors and text are really solid and defined and you can hardly see the pixels at all on the 1024 x 600 display. Overall, I'd say that the Nook Color is the best LCD ereader yet for e-reading simply because of its high quality screen. In addition to the TOC, there's a preview pane that pops up showing thumbnails of each page that you can use to navigate through a magazine. With these you can zoom in on the images and articles, or choose to read in "Article View", which pops-up a box with nicely formatted text. Some operate the same way as newspapers but most are set up like their print counterparts. For features, newspapers have all the same functions as mentioned above for ebooks.
#HOW TO USE A KINDLE NOOK FULL#
Tapping the heading goes to the full article. Each section shows a heading and excerpt. There's a pop-up for writing reviews and recommending books that also lists other books written by the author and similar books other customers bought.įor newspaper reading, everything is laid out into sections, which can be navigated by using the TOC. Other reading features include jumping between chapters and pages using the table of contents and slider bar, searching for words or phrases, and adding bookmarks. Hold down on a word and a pop-up appears for adding highlights, typing notes with the keyboard, accessing the dictionary, searching online, and sharing passages via email, Twitter, and Facebook. And an option to turn on and off publisher defaults. There are 3 levels of adjustment for margins and line height. There are 6 text sizes, font types, and color themes to choose from.
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Indoors it's really good and outdoors in bright light not so much, but it is readable.įor reading features, the Nook comes with several customizing options. So the reading experience all depends on how and where you read on the Nook Color.