NOOK Tablet: Out of the Box

Find Your Way Around

The NOOK Tablet offers a variety of ways to navigate your reading material. Though the options vary a tad between books, magazines, and newspapers, the basic concepts are similar enough that getting around magazines and newspapers will feel intuitive and familiar once you’ve experienced it in a book.

Navigation in a book

The most common way to navigate through a printed book is to skim through the table of contents, and the NOOK makes this natural experience easy. with a book open, just tap anywhere in the the center of the screen to bring up the Reading Tools Menu and tap the Content tab to see the book’s table of contents, as shown in Figure 6-8.

Figure 6-8. Book contents

You’ll see only the chapters or sections that will fit in the window, so just tap and hold anywhere in the list to push it up and reveal the rest. Then, just tap the chapter or section you want to read and you’ll zoom straight off to that part of the book.

If you are have more of a general idea of where you want to be in the book, but don’t have a specific chapter or section in mind, you can drag the navigation slider in the Reading Tools Menu forward or backward to jump to the spot (Figure 6-9). On the other hands, if you do know exactly what page you’re looking for, tap the Go to Page button beneath the navigation slider on the right to bring up the screen shown in Figure 6-10. Just enter the ...