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Originally Posted by Steve3742

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Re the Nook for PC, when I complained about it to Nook, they did say that it wasn't going to be available in the UK - I'm guessing you're American? - so it's possible that they've just removed the ability to download for the UK. They're notorious for treating their UK customers really badly. Or it could have been the book - Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tschaikovsky - which is a Tor book and so DRM free - maybe they don't like people putting DRM free books on their computer.

I am American and people have had problems with the UK store, so that's possible. It may be worth your while to read through this thread. Several UK posters were involved in that discussion and I think had some success.

Originally Posted by Steve3742

Thanks for the solutions. I may try the second one, though it looks kind of involved. As for rooting it... I've always disliked the idea of having my tablet on permanant root access - one of the things I like about Linux is the fact that most of the time you're not on root. Is there an app that works a bit like the "sudo" command, that lets you root the tablet, do whatever you need to and then unroot? I could go for that. I presume you've rooted yours, could you tell me what the pitfalls and hazards are? I hear, for example, that certain things don't work or won't install as root, Google Play has been mentioned, is this true?

I've rooted all of my Android devices (in fact, ability to root is now one of my criteria anytime I get a new device). The root management applications that I've used (SuperSU and Superuser) both can be configured to allow or deny root by default and to ask you when any specific app requests root. The main pitfall would be if an app that you trust and allow to access root does something malicious with it. No app (including Google Play) that I've tried has failed because of root.

Basically, rooting a table just means being able to put "su" somewhere executable and assigning the correct permissions to it. This can be more or less complicated depending on the device, but "unrooting" the device is as simple as deleting the "su" binary (which itself isn't always as easy as it sounds, but both SuperSU and Superuser have that option). If the process to root your device isn't too difficult, then you could indeed root when you want to and then unroot when you're done without much inconvenience.

Originally Posted by Steve3742

Thanks again for your solutions. I'll implement one of them.

You're welcome!