Chapter 6. Buying Books, Magazines, and Newspapers and Managing Your Library

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THE NOOK TABLET IS your entrée into the world of books, magazines, newspapers, and apps—literally millions of them. And you get them all through the NOOK Store. Once you’ve downloaded books, they live in your NOOK’s Library. In this chapter you’ll learn how to buy books and periodicals in the NOOK Store and how to manage your Library.

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When you buy a book, newspaper, or magazine, it’s available not just on your NOOK, but also to a NOOK app if you have one on another smartphone or tablet, as well as on a personal computer. See Managing your NOOK Account for details.

Browsing and Searching for Books in the NOOK Store

To get to the NOOK Store, tap Shop from the Quick Nav bar, or tap a Shop icon if you’ve placed it on one of the panels in your Home screen. You go straight to the NOOK Store.

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You can get to the NOOK Store only when you’re connected to a WiFi network.

Toward the top of the page are categories—Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Kids, Apps, and so on. Just beneath that there’s a scrollable changing set of lists of books and more, such as B&N Top 100, Cool NOOK Books, Picked Just For You (based on your previous ...

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