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anamardoll · 04-06-2011, 06:13 PM

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I'm a little tired of the canard that the people rooting their Nook Colors are all android gear heads that just want to play Angry Birds. I rooted my Nook Color two months ago because I got tired of waiting for the B&N update that finally got "stealth announced" via HSC and who knows if it will be worth a tinker's damn, etc..... That sentence got away from me, but the point is that I use my rooted Nook Color ONLY for reading.

Here is what a rooted Nook Color gives to THIS e-reading junkie:

1. Cloud Library: Calibre + Calibre2opds + Dropbox + WiFi = Happy Ana. It's not that I *minded* laboriously side-loading my entire library once a week, but the library management on the device is TERRIBLE. The shelving/tagging system is broken in the extreme in my opinion, and not being able to put side-loaded titles on the Home Page? No thanks.

2. Reader Choice: Moon+ gives much better highlighting options than the stock app. I spent a week highlighting a NookBook on the stock reader only to have the device crash and lose all my highlights. And you can't export the highlights; Moon+ doesn't have that little limitation. Oh hai there, Aldiko - look at you remembering the last page I was on for a PDF file. The fact that the B&N stock PDF reader still hasn't been patched to recall my last-read PDF page - a feature that came with the Nook Classic version 1? Rage inducing.

3. Library Books via WiFi: My experience with Adobe Digital Editions has been touch-and-go - sometimes it recognizes my side-loaded NookColor and sometimes...it doesn't. There's nothing I like more than checking out a hot new library title only to have to spend two hours trying to coax it to side-load through ADE. Oh, look! Rooted NookColor runs the OverDrive Media app that connects directly to my local library over the WiFi. Goodbye, ADE!

4. Enhanced audiobook options: If you use Audible or any other proprietary audiobook provider, the rooted NookColor can download and use their Android app that manages, downloads, and plays your audiobooks. I don't really recommend Audible myself, but I know people who like them and it's all about choice.

There's other good, valid reasons for a "dedicated reader" to want to root the Nook Color, and I certainly don't judge people who do or don't - it's your device to do whatever you want with it. But I wish we could put to rest this myth that the only people who root Nook Colors are philistines... OR, for that matter, the myth that the NC out of the box is a perfect reader, because as much as I love it, it needs some serious patching and development and B&N is really dropping the ball in that regard, in my opinion.

I actually held off rooting for quite some time because I firmly believed that the Nook App Store was going to come out with these crucial apps *any day now*, but...well, let's just say I don't believe in B&N fairies anymore.

Sorry for the long post.

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04-06-2011, 06:13 PM	#36
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	<rant> I'm a little tired of the canard that the people rooting their Nook Colors are all android gear heads that just want to play Angry Birds. I rooted my Nook Color two months ago because I got tired of waiting for the B&N update that finally got "stealth announced" via HSC and who knows if it will be worth a tinker's damn, etc..... That sentence got away from me, but the point is that I use my rooted Nook Color ONLY for reading. Here is what a rooted Nook Color gives to THIS e-reading junkie: 1. Cloud Library: Calibre + Calibre2opds + Dropbox + WiFi = Happy Ana. It's not that I minded laboriously side-loading my entire library once a week, but the library management on the device is TERRIBLE. The shelving/tagging system is broken in the extreme in my opinion, and not being able to put side-loaded titles on the Home Page? No thanks. 2. Reader Choice: Moon+ gives much better highlighting options than the stock app. I spent a week highlighting a NookBook on the stock reader only to have the device crash and lose all my highlights. And you can't export the highlights; Moon+ doesn't have that little limitation. Oh hai there, Aldiko - look at you remembering the last page I was on for a PDF file. The fact that the B&N stock PDF reader still hasn't been patched to recall my last-read PDF page - a feature that came with the Nook Classic version 1? Rage inducing. 3. Library Books via WiFi: My experience with Adobe Digital Editions has been touch-and-go - sometimes it recognizes my side-loaded NookColor and sometimes...it doesn't. There's nothing I like more than checking out a hot new library title only to have to spend two hours trying to coax it to side-load through ADE. Oh, look! Rooted NookColor runs the OverDrive Media app that connects directly to my local library over the WiFi. Goodbye, ADE! 4. Enhanced audiobook options: If you use Audible or any other proprietary audiobook provider, the rooted NookColor can download and use their Android app that manages, downloads, and plays your audiobooks. I don't really recommend Audible myself, but I know people who like them and it's all about choice. There's other good, valid reasons for a "dedicated reader" to want to root the Nook Color, and I certainly don't judge people who do or don't - it's your device to do whatever you want with it. But I wish we could put to rest this myth that the only people who root Nook Colors are philistines... OR, for that matter, the myth that the NC out of the box is a perfect reader, because as much as I love it, it needs some serious patching and development and B&N is really dropping the ball in that regard, in my opinion. I actually held off rooting for quite some time because I firmly believed that the Nook App Store was going to come out with these crucial apps any day now, but...well, let's just say I don't believe in B&N fairies anymore. Sorry for the long post. </rant> Last edited by anamardoll; 04-07-2011 at 09:58 AM.