<p>My refurbished Nook I bought for a great deal thanks to a CC’er is on the UPS truck due to deliver today! SO excited!</p>
<p>I have been studying up online - in fact, found a new (another!) guilty pleasure - the Barnes and Noble Nook discussion boards - yikes - addicting!:</p>
<p>Mine will be the Nook wireless version - not color.</p>
<p>First time user tips for a newbie? First steps I should take? </p>
<p>I have already opened a B and N account and “purchased” a couple of free books so that I will have something to download right away. I know I should probably download ADE (adobe digital edition?) to my computer for sideloading library books (I am SO hoping this sideloading business is fairly easy). </p>
<p>I guess I will have to “register” the Nook - will it prompt me to do that when I turn it on??
And I have been told, to be patient and let it fully charge before really using.</p>
<p>I hope to order a case today or maybe stop by Best Buy (our B and N doesn’t seem to have a lot of selection…) to check out theirs. Will need a light for reading in bed - any recommendations???</p>
<p>I’m still trying to decide between the Kindle and the Nook.</p>
<p>Entered a contest to win a Kindle. Hoping to win My luck is I would buy one and then be the winner (haha wishful thinking). So, I will wait two more weeks.</p>
<p>I won my Nook in a contest in October. I still haven’t fully mastered it. Our local B&N has a class once a month that I was planning on taking, but each time it was scheduled we had another snow storm. I would check and see if your store offers the class. Have fun with it. I love mine! :)</p>
<p>Yes, they do have the classes. I will check them out. It arrived safely (well, tossed on the deck - thank goodness it wasn’t raining and the snow has melted!) and is now charging!</p>
<p>I just got a nook on Friday night. I need some tips, too.
The girl at the B&N desk said she has like 100 books downloaded, and she only paid for two…I looked on the B & N site, but they have a pretty small selection of free ones, so where is she getting all of them?</p>
<p>I know you can borrow from friends (don’t know how, tho) and borrow from the library (ditto)…what else?</p>
<p>nicksmtmom: Our library also loans books to ereaders. I was in there two weeks ago and asked about it. I haven’t tried it out yet, but am looking forward to it. I know if you do a search on your nook and search for 0.00 it will give all of the free ones. You need to really check though, I got two free which were really only the first 3 chapters of a book. I guess I didn’t really pay attention. I also check out the steals and deals. There are a lot of cheap ones there.</p>
<p>Charged it, registered it, logged in and my free books already downloaded. Sweet!</p>
<p>Went out to Best Buy and picked up a case for it. Will make do with my current booklight for now…need to figure out the finger swiping thing…where do you swipe???</p>
<p>(I keep wanting to “touch” the reader screen though- bad habits from my Itouch!)</p>
<p>You swipe on the bar above the touchscreen. I do a little swipe on the right side of the bar, swiping from right to left in a diagonally downward motion. It took some experimenting, but it’s second nature now.</p>
<p>Many of the posters on the nook forums swear by a free program called Calibre (google it). I haven’t used it much, though.</p>
<p>Now, go over to the Oberon Designs website and drool over the covers.</p>
My luck is I would buy one and then be the winner (haha wishful thinking). So, I will wait two more weeks.</p>
I would check and see if your store offers the class. Have fun with it. I love mine! :)</p>