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Nook charger replacement

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:00:33 +0000

If you lost your charger for your Nook, you have some options for Nook charger replacement. What you need depends on what kind of Nook you have. Nook charger replacement options The Nook Color and Nook tablets used a special

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The best e-book site I’ve found

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:00:53 +0000

The best ebooks site I’ve found, by far, is the archive at the University of Adelaide in Australia. The selection is outstanding, but the presentation is even better. Steve Thomas, the curator, takes tremendous care to ensure Adelaide’s e-books display

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How to disassemble a Nook Simple Touch to remove or replace a battery

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 26 May 2015 11:00:17 +0000

If your Nook Simple Touch won’t power on, or is displaying a question mark (?) on its battery indicator, I have a four things to try. But before you go to the trouble of disassembly, try charging the device with a

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Amazon bundles free/discounted e-books with print books

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:00:35 +0000

Amazon just fired off another salvo in the e-book war, one that’s going to be very difficult to return: Selected e-books are available for free or at a substantial discount if you bought the print book new from Amazon at

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Calibre turns 1.0

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:00:34 +0000

Calibre, the free e-book management software, hit the magic version 1.0 this past week. That’s not to say the previous versions were unstable, because they weren’t. In the world of open-source software, frequently software doesn’t hit version 1.o until the

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Loading your own stuff onto your e-reader

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:48 +0000

I have a fair number of documents I created myself–that probably shouldn’t surprise anyone–but I don’t think I’m the only one who does. And from time to time, I’d like to reference them, and I may not have my computer

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Nook won’t turn on? Try these four things.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:31:17 +0000

I'd owned a Nook Simple Touch for less than 24 hours when I had a problem. So I learned out of necessity what to do when a Nook won't turn on. Four things, in fact.

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How to tame e-books

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:05:46 +0000

I haven’t exactly been rushing out to buy an e-reader, for at least a couple of reasons. The practical reason is that I’m afraid of being locked in to a single vendor. Amazon is the market leader and the most

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