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Nook HD+ with Google Play

Review: Nook HD+ with Official Google Play (Video)

First and foremost, it should be noted that this article is more of an addendum to my initial review of the Nook HD+ that was posted back in November when the device first came out rather than a completely new review. I’m not going to cover any of the hardware details or any specific Nook [...]

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Nook HD Sale

B&N Slashes Prices on Nook HD and Nook HD+ for Mother’s Day

Lately I’ve been getting tired of posting about all of Barnes and Noble’s various Nook sales and promotions every week, but this one is too good to pass up. Through Mother’s Day, May 12th, Barnes and Noble is selling the 7-inch Nook HD tablet for $149 and the 9-inch Nook HD+ tablet for $179 both [...]

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Nook HD Google Play

B&N Adds Support for Google Play to Nook HD and Nook HD+

Barnes and Noble just did something that could very well resurrect the declining Nook brand. In a surprise move that no one saw coming, Barnes and Noble has decided to make the Nook HD and Nook HD+ more appealing by adding support for Google Play for access to over 700,000 Android apps, including popular Google [...]

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Glowlight Nook Simple Touch

Is B&N Going to Release a New GlowLight Nook Touch Soon?

Unlike most companies that like to release new ereaders in the fall before the busy holiday shopping season, Barnes and Noble tends to release new E Ink Nooks in the spring. In fact the GlowLight Nook Touch was officially announced exactly one year and one week ago from tomorrow. But unlike last year, there are [...]

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Nooks

Obligatory Nook News Post

Barnes and Noble’s marketing department is trying extra hard to get everyone’s attention this past week. In such cases I usually ignore them because I find it excruciatingly annoying when every tech website keeps posting the exact same stories regurgitating whatever a company’s marketing department tells them to like mindless parrots. But things like this [...]

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Nook HD apps

B&N Now Giving Away Paid Nook Apps for Free Every Friday

Barnes and Noble is launching a new promotion to help reinvigorate the Nook brand by taking a page from Amazon’s book and giving away a paid Nook app for free every Friday. While B&N isn’t giving away a free app every day like Amazon, hopefully the quality of the apps will be better. They are [...]

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Waterproof eBook Reader

Video of a Waterproof eBook Reader – A Modified Nook Touch

Now here’s an interesting concept that will catch the eye of anyone who likes to read in the bathtub, hot tub, or other watery location that is normally a hazard to any book or ereading gadget. I just came across a video on YouTube that shows a functioning ebook reader that is completely submerged under [...]

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Nook Shop

The Nook Isn’t Dead Yet, But It’s Not Selling Well So It’s On Sale Again

Barnes and Noble released their third quarter financial results today and the numbers, as expected, were not good. Overall revenues decreased by 8.8% from last year, and even worse, Nook revenues from both digital content and Nook hardware fell by a gut-numbing 26%. Digital content sales actually rose by 6.8%, so that really shows just [...]

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Nook Touch Angry Birds

NookManager: Everything You Need to Root and Restore a Nook Touch or Nook Glow

A new tool called NookManager recently became available for rooting the Nook Touch and Nook Glow. It also includes ways to create backups and it can restore your Nook to factory settings, as well as disable B&N apps and install custom plugins. I haven’t tried NookManager myself because quite frankly both my Nook Touch and [...]

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Rooted Nook Glow

GlowNooter Updated to Root GlowLight Nook Touch with 1.2 Firmware

I noticed over at XDA this morning that the GlowNooter rooting package for the GlowLight Nook Touch was updated last week to work with the new 1.2.x firmware update that Barnes and Noble issued back in November. Ever since the 1.2 firmware update, GlowNooter would freeze up and not complete the rooting process. This is [...]

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