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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hey Dngrsone, Thanks for the suggestion. Like when you got your Nook did it come with the cable for sideloading it? (I'm just so ignorant about this stuff.)
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should come with one. The nook has a microSD slot on the base. If all you want to do is connect it to a PC to sideload content, a generic connector with a male USB plug on one end and a male microUSB plug on the other will do it. But the Nook also charges through the cable, and Nooks come with a cable that is also a charging cable, with an adapter to plug into an outlet.
When my SO plugged her Nook into her laptop, the laptop could see it as an external storage device, and she could copy files to it. (The laptop is Win 7. We haven't tried hooking it to a Linux box.)
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And I've always heard people talking (here in MR) about the Sony 6" reader being great to check epubs. Any truth to that?
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The original Sony Reader used a proprietary Sony eBook format called BBLF. Sony later switched to ePub, and current Sony models use it as the format they read.
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And I have a formatter friend who just uses an ordinary Nook to check them.
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Nook also uses ePub as the standard format.
Essentially, Amazon uses Mobi format (and bought Mobipocket to get it and use it for their eBook offering before ePub came about.) Most others - Sony, Nook, Kobo et al - use ePub.
I'd probably use a Nook to check ePubs, since readers here are more likely to have it than a Sony Reader
You can also view ePub files on Linux using either
FBReader or
CoolReader
Don't expect the displays to be identical, and treat the Nook as the baseline.
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I don't know. I'm a terrible shopper. I imagine the info. I need will accumulate and then it will become easier.
Do you reccomend using the MR forum to buy one?
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It's one place to go. The advantage to MR will be a basic level of confidence that what you get is what the seller says it is. eBay is another place to look (and is where my SO got her Nook Tablet.)
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Dennis