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Originally Posted by shelties4me
What is Softroot ?
What does sideload mean?
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Softroot is a custom firmware for the nook device. It offers the ability to connect to the shell on the device, access linux commands, remotely control it, and access low-level functions. Through this access, you can run applications such as a custom library that integrates downloads from the B&N store and sideloads (see next paragraph), has good search capabilities, understands tags, etc. It also lets you run trook (an RSS reader that can download books from a Calibre content server), a file manager that lets you move, rename, and delete files without connecting to a computer. There's an enhanced PDF viewer that you can download that has landscape mode, zoom, and some other stuff (I wouldn't know, because non-text PDF's are the equivalent of broken files, to me).
Sideload means that you load files through a computer, through downloading through trook, or some means other than downloading from the B&N store.
If you only read books through B&N, you're probably better off leaving things alone. If you're not technical and are afraid to play with things, again, you should leave it alone. If you do a lot of reading of PDF's, if you load EPUB's through your computer, or if you're just looking to geek out, give softroot a whirl.