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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I think the most compelling reason for rooting the Nook is if you have lots of side-loaded content on your Nook, because the stock Nook only allows you to select these books by paging through the "My Documents" one page at a time, with books sorted by author or title. That's not so bad if you only buy books from B&N (as they so obviously want you to do), but if you have hundreds (or thousands, like me) of ebooks from elsewhere, then you are looking at clicking through potentially hundreds of pages to find the book you want. The rooted Nook has a very nice replacement library application which allows you to search all books, not just B&N books by author, by title, by keywords in the description, and by cover. There's also a file browser, an improved music player, and several other goodies.
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I have over 1700 sideloaded books and I apprecate your point on clicking through the pages of book listings. That being said I tried the SoftRooting procedure but once it was complete the softrooted nook wouldn't see all of my books. Out of the 1700 all it saw was 977 and that included the B&N books, so it only saw 895 of my sideloaded books. Actually in fact the B&N library function did better as it could see my 82 B&N books plus 902 of my sideloaded books.
I tried several different things to get either program to see more of the books to no avail. I ultimately had to revert to the stock 1.4.0 software to get my books back into availability. Have you had any such problems with your softrooted nook and if so how did you overcome them? I would really like to give it another go.