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Originally Posted by tracings
My husband is looking to upgrade from an eInk reader (Kobo Touch) to something that allows him to surf the web and read books. The current sale on the Nook HD has me thinking that this may be just the ticket for him -- but I have a few questions:
* What is required at set-up? Do we need to connect to Barnes and Noble and register the device? I've heard you need to enter a credit card number on Nook devices, even if you never shop from them.
* How hard is it to sideload books from Calibre? We've been reading books on two different Kobo devices, and I've just sideloaded the ones he'd like to read to his device. Will I need to use a Alf add-on to allow him to read epubs on the Nook HD? Will this be confusing when I go to add the epub to my Kobo Glo?
Any advice on how to handle a new Nook HD is greatly appreciated. If someone can provide an overview of the steps we need to go through after unboxing a Nook HD, I'd be eternally grateful!
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1. Yes you have to register the device. But no, you do not have to put in a credit card. You can skip that screen during the set up.
2. You can put the Kobo app on the Nook HD, and read your Kobo books that way.
3. It is easy to side load books to the Nook. You can do it over USB, you can do it over USB using Calibre, you can do it wirelessly using sync apps such as Sugarsync, drop box, copy.
4. For non-DRM epub books, you can use the Nook reading app, or you can load a free app from Google Play, such as Cool Reader, Mantano, Aldiko.
My favorite technique is to save books from Calibre into a separate file on my PC, using save to disk plug boards to add in the series info automatically, and then plug in to the device and drag my saved books into the folders I want them on the Nook. (You can do this just using your SD card if you want). Then I use my reading app (Mantano) to open whatever book I want to read. That way, my reading apps aren't stuffed full of books. My books are all in properly organized files on my SD card.
You can use Calibre with Alf's plugins to strip the DRM if you need to, and then you are free to arrange your books how you want.
You can also put the Kindle app on the Nook HD if you don't want to bother stripping, and you like to read your books as-is.
The Nook HD is a Wonderful tablet for reading, and news apps, weather, music, movies, all kinds of stuff. We have three now, the price is too hard to resist!