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Old 09-17-2022, 12:15 PM   #9
Shagbark
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Device: Nook Simpletouch
To answer my own question:

To get my books to appear, I created, under NOOK, the subdirectories Books, Documents, My Files [space between words], and MyDocuments [no space]. Those are the names of the directories that documents had to go under on my Nook Simpletouch.

The books under Documents aren't visible, or else (more likely) search is so buggy that I can't find them (and I'm certainly not going to take an hour to scroll through hundreds of pages to find them manually). I didn't test "Books". Files under "My Files" are visible if I choose "My Files"; files under "MyDocuments" are visible under "All Types" or "Everything Else".

The Nook software is so useless for anyone with more than a hundred books that I used the Android program "adb" to install the launcher "Text Launcher" and the document viewer KOReader on it. KOReader can display more filetypes, can display PDFs in landscape mode, AND lets me search the directory structure for them. So I boot the nook, wait for the slow and useless Nook software to load, tap the upside-down 'U', select Text Launcher, launch KOReader, and use it to find, select, and read whatever I want to.

Supposedly I could delete the Nook software and boot directly to Text Launcher if I rooted the Nook, but I don't know if I want to risk trying that (and haven't found up-to-date instructions on how to do it). My Glowlight 3+ is running an Android version that's at least 4.2, but below 5.1 .
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