Introduction

WHAT GIVES YOU ACCESS to the world’s greatest literature, today’s bestsellers, tomorrow’s up-and-coming authors, the world’s top newspapers and magazines, TV shows and movies, great games, email, and more?

It’s the NOOK Tablet—a great combo eReader and Android tablet from the bookseller Barnes & Noble.

This book will help you get the most out of your NOOK Tablet, and there’s a lot you can get out of it, as you’ll see. Whether you’re looking just to get started or want to dig deep into the tablet’s capabilities, this book’s got you covered.

Note

This book covers the features available on the NOOK Color as well as the NOOK Tablet. When the NOOK Color differs in any significant way from the NOOK Tablet, we’ll let you know.

You likely already know that the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color are eReaders that let you read thousands of books, magazines, and newspapers, as well as documents created with Microsoft Office and PDF files—and do all that in a nifty, lightweight, easy-to-carry, elegant piece of hardware.

But that’s just the beginning of what these amazing devices can do. Even though at eight inches high, five inches wide, and less than half an inch thick, they’re smaller, more portable, and less expensive than many other tablets, they do just about everything that bulkier, costlier tablets can do. And they’re certainly light to carry, at just under 16 ounces.

Want to stream the latest movies and TV shows to it? Yes, it can do that. And you’ll find the screen well suited for TV and movie watching, because it’s crisp and clear with a high resolution. Movies and TV shows are often clearer and sharper on the NOOK’s high-resolution screen than on larger tablets.

There’s a lot more to the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color than reading and watching TV and movies. Want to browse to any website? Read and compose email? Keep track of all your contacts?

Yes, it does all that as well.

How about playing Internet radio stations, playing games, sharing books with your friends, discussing books with others, borrowing books from the library?

Yes, it does all that and more. You can also download thousands of apps that do pretty much anything you want. In short, the NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color are eReaders but also powerful, very portable tablets. You don’t want to wait to make use of all their amazing capabilities, though. That’s where this book comes in—it will put you on the fast track to all the NOOK’s magic.