i don't have an android phone so this allowed me to play with android for the 1st time.
It also help me sell the ipad2 that felt like a toy.

i wanted control. in addition to the reasons above there's rss feed reader and readitlater that i use to read this forum sometimes.

What i really want is a phone with eink display....

I admit the unique applications of a rooted eink android are not massive but for me my eyes find eink a lot easier to read.

The nook has tide me over delayed the upgrade cycle to a galaxy. This way i can wait until smart phones have 3 days battery life or eink like display i'm waiting for.

i also got ms word read/write support if i need it plus excel. With all this i should be able to carry the nook with all my docs.



[QUOTE=guitar_east;19854532]I've rooted mine so I don't have to convert Kindle books, nor plug it into my computer to add books, or even to get books from the library using Overdrive. I've read a few Manga and other graphic novels on the device, its meh for that. Colours are so important, I feel like I'm robbing the artist by only seeing the work in greyscale.

I've done a few videos showing it off, here's a general one. If you're interested in what Manga looks like with the Mango reader, I have a video for that

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Why I wanted to root my Nook touch.

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A minor bit of thread necromancy here, reaching back to last month.

My top 5 reasons for rooting the nook touch were:

• A PDF viewer with zoom and graphics only modes for non-OCR or poorly OCR'd books.
• Dropbox sync.
• Word, Excel, and PPt viewers.
• .chm file viewers
• Renaming files from 02658x42.doc to "Widget Technical reference manual".

Since I've done it, I also got the following working and love it even more.

• Offline Wikipedia a la WikiReader.
• Mobile boarding passes.
• Sudoku.
• Password Protection.
• Standby display text "This nook belongs to <name>. Please call her at <number> and return it for a non-trivial reward, gratitude, and karma."

Thanks everyone for making the nook touch even more awesome.

On a grossly unrelated note, +1 the xdadevelopers noob video. That was great.

The reasons for rooting my nook:
A better pdf reader
cbz,cbr support
Docs support
ICS keyboard

Really? The battery-life and eInk quality improves when rooted?

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Hey, I am pretty much satisfied with what the nook touch does, but then I would like whatever it does to be done better

And since reading eBooks is all that I want to do in the nook, I am REALLY interested with the possibility of improving the battery life and especially the eInk quality... Also I HATE the Marriam Webster dictionary that comes with the stock nook.


Can you quickly point me in the right direction for a better eInk display profile and replacing stock with the kindle Oxford dictionary without adversely affecting the battery life?

Please any help is appreciated

Originally Posted by stockhomer

I rooted it to use the dictionaries I needed with the fora dictionary app or colordict

I'm french so it's a revolution for me to be able to read an english book with the dictionary I chose, just selecting the word :eek:
I learnt so much English with my android devices,

But the eink quality of reading and battery life with the freedom and the possibilities of android is just awesome!


Sent from my GT-P1010

Reasons I rooted:
[*]Just for the heck of it [*]Dropbox sync[*]Being allowed to use it during school (Me: "It's essentially a book." Teacher: "ok")[*]To become part of a great community which is XDA

Originally Posted by brendan10211

[*]Being allowed to use it during school (Me: "It's essentially a book." Teacher: "ok")

LMAO, best way to pass exams XD!!!!!!! that made my day xD

Originally Posted by darkguy2008

LMAO, best way to pass exams XD!!!!!!! that made my day xD

Most teachers wouldn't allow a book during an exam, so that means no nook during exams.

Originally Posted by notriddle

Most teachers wouldn't allow a book during an exam, so that means no nook during exams.

That's true, but it depends on where do you live and your skillz. Back in HS I used to bring one of those small memory-storing devices and it passed as a calculator, so... :P

Here in the US we would never be allowed to have a nook near us during the exam. But it is a great way to play sudoku and such.

Originally Posted by brendan10211

Here in the US we would never be allowed to have a nook near us during the exam. But it is a great way to play sudoku and such.

Yeah, but if only they would trust us enough to let us read AFTER we finished the final exams. They make us wait until after EVERYONE in the room finishes, and there's always that one person that either fails miserably, or just checks it over and over again until the teacher tells him to stop. /facepalm