YOU’LL FIND IT WORTH your while to visit a Barnes & Noble store with your NOOK Tablet, because when you do that, you get extras, notably the ability to read many NOOK books for free for an hour.
When you go into a Barnes & Noble store, your NOOK Tablet automatically finds the store’s WiFi network and connects to it. For this to work, of course, WiFi needs to be turned on; for details see Using and Troubleshooting WiFi.
When you’re in the store, turn on your NOOK; a screen appears telling you that you’re connected. Click Connect to Shop, and then follow the directions for finding any special offers or browsing for books to read for free.
If the screen doesn’t appear, or if you move away from the screen and can’t get back to it, don’t despair; you can still easily find books to read for free. Go to the NOOK Store (Browsing and Searching for Books in the NOOK Store) and in the Popular Lists scrolling area you’ll find a new entry—Read in Store. Tap it, and you’ll come to a list of books with the In Store badge. Scroll through the list until you see one you want to read. Tap the book, and you’ll see the usual details page, with one addition—a Read in Store button. Books in that list aren’t the only ones that you can read for free. Many other books can be read for free for an hour as well Just browse and search as you would normally, and look for books with the Read in Store banner.
Tap the button, and you’ll get a notification that you can read the book for free for an hour. The book downloads to your NOOK; a green bar shows the download progress. When the green bar stretches all the way across, the Read button turns green. Tap it. For the next hour, as long as you stay in the store, you can read the book using all the normal NOOK Tablet reading features. After that, you’ll no longer be able to read it. You can also buy the book by tapping the Buy Now button at the top of the screen.
After an hour, a screen appears, telling you that your time is up. At that point, you can buy the book, add it to your wish list, or simply stop reading.