For me, the big deal with the nook is having convenient access to my entire library, all on the device at the same time. Doing this requires soft-rooting the nook, and using three pieces of software: two on your computer (Calibre, calibre2opds) and one on your nook (trook).
- Use Calibre to organize your eBooks. Specifically, get the authors, titles, and series set up correctly.
- Use calibre2opds to produce a catalog of your books and then copy both catalog and books to the add-on memory card on your nook.
- Use trook to browse your newly created catalog on the nook.
The key things here are that calibre2opds produces an opds-formatted catalog of the books (by reading the Calibre data), and that trook knows how to read, display and navigate that catalog.
You can drill into your library:
- by series
- by author
- by title
- by date added
- by tag
(and maybe more). In each case, trook displays a reasonable set of choices for drilling in farther: (
e.g. "Series starting with 1", "Series starting with "A", "Series starting with "B", etc.).
This combination supports something that is not currently possible with the built-in software of
any stand-alone ebook reading device -- fast and convenient access to any book in a multi-thousand volume library!
Xenophon