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Originally Posted by dugong
Could someone give a definition of "softroot" in plain English. It sounds like a bad tooth problem or something that horticulturists may have to deal with.
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"Root" means to gain root access to your device, which gives you the user rights to do stuff like installing software.
"softroot" means that you can do this by means of software, without hardware modifications. To do this on your nook, just follow the instructions on the softroot page.
For the normal user this means: If you softroot your Nook, you can upload a specially amended firmware onto the device by *closely* following the softrooting instructions.
I have a 1.2 softroot firmware running on my nook and am quite happy with it. Navigating sideloaded content with the original firmware is no fun.
I haven't risked the 1.3 update though, because currently the nookLibrary in the softroot firmware is broken (see
http://nookdevs.com/Softroot) and I don't know how this affects the usability of the decive.
Hope this helps.