Friday Five: Improve Your nook's Battery Charge

One common complaint (and one recognized by Barnes and Noble, at that) is that nook’s battery just doesn’t hold up to the technical specifications. Officially, BN state that your nook could conceivably run for 10 days with wireless off, while using wireless and/or playing music will force you to plug in after two days.

This isn’t so [...]

Minty, Fresh Gum & Minty, Fresh eReader Charging (Reprinted)

Scott over at The Lewis Four kindly offered me the opportunity to reprint his “Minty, Fresh Gum & Minty, Fresh eReader Charging” article that originally went up at TLF this past Thursday. Obviously, I accepted. Thanks, Scott!

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Saw a note on an unrelated forum that this product is compatible with the nook. Bear in mind, that doesn’t [...]

Known nook Issues and Work-arounds

Since Barnes and Noble are continuing to acknowledge known issues with nook and because this information seems to slip through the cracks, I’ve decided to compile a list of “Known nook Issues and Work-arounds.” (I’ve also started a thread in the nookverse forum so that the list can be easily updated and made more visible.)

Barnes and [...]

Battery Issues Officially Confirmed

Admin Josh_W at the official Barnes and Noble eBooks Help board has confirmed that nook developers are aware of battery problems. He doesn’t guarantee that the problem will be fixed, although this is to be expected.

We are aware of the battery issues and this will hopefully be addressed in a system update.

This is the first acknowledgment [...]

nook Links for 01/03/10

nook Threads at the Official Barnes and Noble eBook Help board:

BartleyR7 engages in a bit of citizen science and asks you to report on your nook’s battery experiences. This may be helpful in spotting global battery management problems (and local ones, as well), or it could just make the battery situation less clear. The more data, [...]

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