Chapter 3. Reading on Your NOOKcolor and Beyond

Although your NOOKcolor has many unique features and capabilities, its primary purpose is for reading ebooks and other content. One of the benefits of owning a NOOKcolor is that you can carry a complete library with you everywhere you go. If you don’t happen to have your NOOKcolor with you, you can also read your ebooks on your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android phone, and Blackberry.

Various forms of content are available to read on Your NOOKcolor—NOOKbooks and other EPUB files, along with PDFs; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files; and plain text files. Appendix A, “Understanding ebook Formats,” explains more about the details of ebook formats. You are probably already familiar ...

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