When you buy books for your NOOK Tablet, they’re in a format called EPUB. NOOK books you borrow and lend are in that format as well. But your NOOK is a do-everything device when it comes to eReading, and it can handle more than EPUB books—it can read PDF files as well.
You typically get PDF files by copying them to your NOOK from your computer, as described in Transferring Files to Your NOOK Tablet.
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When you tap a PDF in your Library to read it, you’ll be asked whether you want to open it in Quickoffice Lite (Tip) or the Reader. The Reader has more reading features than Quickoffice Lite, so it’s your best bet. If you want PDFs to always open in the Reader (or Quickoffice Lite), turn on the checkbox next to “Use by default for this option” before making your choice.
Reading a PDF is much like reading a book, with some important differences:
At the top of the Reading Tools menu there’s a thumbnail viewer that shows thumbnails of every page in the PDF. Swipe through the thumbnails, and when you find a page you want to read, tap it. Tapping it also closes the Reading Tools menu.
Zoom in on a page by double-tapping it; zoom out by double-tapping it again.
Not all the tools on the Reading Tools menu are available for PDFs. You can’t share quotes or reviews of the PDF, use the Discover feature to find related books, or change the display of the pages.
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To return to reading a PDF, tap the More button from the Home screen, but remember that you’ll find it listed in the Files section, not in the Books section (The Keep Reading and More Menus).