NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box

Archiving Books and Periodicals

Your NOOK has plenty of storage space, and if you add an SD card, you get even more. Still, there may come a time when you begin to run out of space, or feel as if you’re running out of space. In that case, you can archive books and periodicals. When you archive them, the books are still stored in your Barnes & Noble account on the Internet Web, and whenever you can have it sent to your NOOK by a simple process called unarchiving.

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Have you ever heard the term “cloud” or “cloud storage”? If you ever read about tech, you most likely do. Well, welcome to the cloud. When you archive items, you’re using your own personal cloud, courtesy of Barnes & Noble. The cloud is a term that refers to storage space on the Internet that has files that you can use whenever you want, without it always being available on a computer or gadget—in this case, a NOOK.

Basic information about your archived items stay on your NOOK, including its cover, title, author, and description. This information stays in your Library, on your shelves, and is searchable So you’ll always be able to find them, and grab them to your NOOK at a moment’s notice. The point here is that archiving is a quick simple way to save on storage space.

To archive an item, head to the Library and press and hold your finger on the item you want to archive. The item is immediately archived. It disappears from the content area of the library, but shows up in a Shelf labeled Archive in the My Files area. To ...