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Well I have mine in hand now; my husband picked it up at the store. I have mixed feelings about it.
The back is very nice, but I’ll seldom see it because I have it in a cover.
The front is less impressive. It’s almost a flush screen but the bezel looks and feels like some sort of textured duct tape was slapped on at the last minute. I can understand the function (although I’ve never felt the lack of it on my Aura) but I don’t like either the look or the feel of it.
Unlike the H2O the micro-USB port doesn’t have any sort of cover. It’s easier this way, assuming it’s just as waterproof.
With all of my ereaders I sideload everything, via download/Alf/ Calibre/USB. I blithely assumed (yeah, I know) that this would work the same way.
The user guide says “NOTE: If you connect your NOOK to a Windows PC, the PC might display a dialog box asking if you want to install a driver for a “Nook.” Click Cancel to close this dialog box. You do not need to install a special driver to transfer files to your NOOK.” The first time I connected the Nook to my PC (laptop with Windows 7) there was a pause and then a message block saying that Windows had installed a new driver for my device. It didn’t ask permission and I don’t know if it caused any problems.
Anyway, it did connect, and shows up in file explorer but not with a drive letter (I guess that means it’s MTP?). Calibre knows it’s there but gives me the error message that it can’t communicate. A reset didn’t help.
So I need to find the best way to get my books loaded, preferably with some sort of plugboard like the ones I’ve been using for Kindle and Kobo so I can have series numbers in the titles.
I can use File Explorer to copy epub files directly from my Calibre library onto the Nook (my files section) or I can use Calibre to Send to Disk and then File Explorer to copy the files from there to the Nook, but neither is ideal, and I don’t get series numbers (I might be missing something here though).
I don’t understand exactly (or approximately, probably) how Calibre’s Connect to Folder works. I created a folder and told Calibre to connect to it. I configured it to select epub files and copied one of my other plugboards into save template (that’s probably wrong). I sent the epub format of a book to device (folder) and then used file explorer to copy it from the folder to the Nook. That didn’t work at all; the file did actually have the series title as a name, but the Nook didn’t display the title that way and couldn’t open it at all. I’m fairly sure I did a lot wrong.
A wireless solution would be good except I don’t think the Nook actually has any sort of general web browsing capability. It can connect to the Barnes and Noble store using the "Shop" option but that seems to be it. Although, again, I might be missing something.
In the past I’ve just used the small parts of Calibre that I needed; I think I need to read more about the send to disk and send to folder features.
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