Head to a web page, and most of the time you see an entire page, laid out with the same fonts, links, pictures, and so on, as if you were visiting it using a computer with a larger screen. Move around the page by using the normal NOOK gestures. Of course, looking at an entire web page on the NOOK’s screen isn’t the same thing as looking at a web page on a 21-inch monitor. The type and photos are small, and the links can be difficult to tap on. But letting you see the entire screen at once makes a good deal of sense, because at a glance, you can see what section of the page you want to view.
That’s where the fun begins. You can use the NOOK’s zooming and scrolling capabilities to head quickly to the part of the page you want to view, and then zoom in.
You’ve got four ways to do so:
Rotate the NOOK. Turn it 90 degrees to the left or to the right. The NOOK changes the orientation of the website to fill the wider view, and while doing so, zooms in.
Use the two-finger spread. Put two fingers on the NOOK’s screen on the areas where you want to zoom in, and move your fingers apart. The web page stretches and zooms in. The more you spread, the greater the zoom. Pinch your fingers together to zoom back out. You may need to do the two-finger spread or pinch several times until you get the exact magnification you want.
Double-tap. Double-tap with a finger on the section of the page where you want to zoom. Double-tap again to zoom out. You can’t control the zoom level as finely with the double-tap as you can with the two-finger spread.
Use the + and – signs. As you move around the page, two buttons appear on the lower-right portion of the screen, + and –. Tap the + button to zoom in and the – button to zoom out.
Once you’ve zoomed in, scroll around the web page by dragging or flicking your finger—the same kind of navigation you use for other apps on the NOOK.