NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box

Nifty Options for Items in Your Library

To read a book or periodical, or run an app, just tap it. But there’s plenty more you can do with your books, magazines, and newspapers (and apps) in the library. Press and hold your finger on a book, and you’ll get the choices shown in Figure 5-4.

Figure 5-4. More options

Note

Not every item will have all of these choices. For example, Read, Add to Shelf, and several other options won’t show up when you hold your finger on an app, and Open won’t appear when you hold your finger on a book.

Read

Opens the book, newspaper, or magazine to read. Why read it this way rather than tapping it? Beats us, but you can do it this way if you’d like.

View details

Shows you details about the book or periodical. It’s the same information you saw on the screen before buying.

Open

Runs an app.

Recommend

Lets you recommend the book or periodical to a friend.

Add to Home

Puts a shortcut to it on your Home Screen.

Add to Shelf

Lets you add it to a shelf that you’ve created in My Shelf.

Remove from Shelf

Lets you remove it from a shelf.

Archive

Moves it off of your NOOK, but still allows it to be accessible whenever you want. See Archiving Books and Periodicals for details.

Delete

Deletes the item. Be very careful when doing this, because unlike with archiving, you won’t be able to retrieve the item if you later want it. If you decide at some later ...