March 2012
Beginner to intermediate
488 pages
15h 46m
English
Content preview from NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 6. Buying Books, Magazines, and Newspapers and Managing Your Library
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.
Note
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.
Note
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 ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.