The History Book Club discussion

For those of you who have the Nook, here is a thread to discuss your device and any other topic related to it.

Hello all.....I have a nook ereader and I'm willing to share my lendable books to anyone esle who has a nook that might be interested!


Very interesting story on the Bataan Death March

Michael Norman

Thanks Bev; between the two - maybe you will get some takers.

There are a bunch of NOOK applications out there for different devices including IPAD, PC, Etc... So even if you do not have a NOOK, you can read, buy, borrow & lend NOOK books.

That is great Tom; thank you. Maybe Bev you could give a list of your lendable books and maybe some folks might be interested. And that is absolutely correct since I also have the apps on my Ipad, etc.

I also have some Nook Lendable books. They are on my LendMe Shelf (Here). If anyone is interested in borrowing, let me know!

Yes Tom, Thanks! I forgot about those options. I just recently bought my nook so I only have a few titles that are lendable

Clarence Darrow

Friedrich August von Hayek

John Bolton

I moved this to the Nook thread:

Does anyone have this that they can lend me? I didn't see a folder for lending/borrowing, so I'm sorry if its in the wrong place :)
My email is jessiecpt@yahoo.com if anyone has it! Thank you.
Jessica

Jack Higgins

There is a link called bookswap but I am not sure if this fits.

Bookswap on goodreads is great and I believe people post ebooks there too, you just have to be clear what you are requesting. Isn't there something for Kindle users called Lendle where you can get books? I'm not savvy about this but have heard of this from Kindle owners.

I was actually talking about the link on this group site:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

I believe Nook readers can lend books out like a Kindle. Both places would work.

Make sure to place your request also on the link provided in message 11.

Not good news for Nook users:

Barnes & Noble's disastrous bet on an ebook-only future sank the Nook - By Chris Welch on July 25, 2013 12:24

A few short weeks after William Lynch stepped down as CEO of Barnes & Noble, Bloomberg Businessweek has published a comprehensive look at the executive's turbulent tenure.

Lynch joined the book retailer in 2009, just as work on the first Nook e-reader (then known by its code name Bravo) had gotten underway.

The Nook beat industry expectations, and Lynch found himself in the chief executive role a year later. Barnes & Noble had seemingly found the right person to lead the bookstore chain's digital push.

Galvanized by the Nook's success, Lynch set his sights on the tablet market and Apple's iPad. But success didn't come twice; the Nook division began bleeding money and Bloomberg Businessweek says engineers felt distracted by fruitless side projects like user profiles (seen above) and the production of a Windows 8 app.

Lynch was also too slow in appreciating one key fact: many people still prefer reading physical books, a point underlined by the success of Barnes & Noble's college bookstores. Now the duty of rehabilitating the Nook brand (or opting to do away with it) will fall to chairman Leonard Riggio.

I received a Nook HD for Christmas. Despite being skeptical about the whole idea of e-readers, I have really enjoyed it. I had read that Christmas sales were weak, and I was hoping when they opened up the HD and HD+ to Google Play it might revive them, but it seems to have been too little too late.

You can get a Nook HD for $129 now, which is a big discount from the $200 price last December. It doesn't actually say, "While supplies last," but it sure seems that way. I'm almost tempted to recommend one at that price, but I don't know enough details about the operating system, which I gather is a modified version of Android. If B&N aren't going to keep it updated, I suppose it will be a problem in the future.

I'm planning on keeping mine as long as it lasts, although I have installed the Kindle app and may purchase my e-books from Amazon in the future. I don't really know what's going to happen in terms of accessing my Nook purchases if I have to replace the device. I suppose they'll keep the basic version of the Nook available for that purpose, but it would be hard stepping down as I've grown accustomed to the HD--particularly the Overdrive app that let's me take out books from my local library network.

You probably will be OK for awhile Sully but I always worry when something is not being supported.

Barnes & Noble Rumored To Support new 8-Inch Device
By Edwin Kee on 08/24/2015



Do you think that certain companies just do not have the right kind of mojo when it comes to a certain market niche? We are now hearing whispers of Barnes & Noble (B&N) working on support for a brand new device that measures 8” in size, although details are still extremely scant at the moment since we have yet to see any kind of new submissions over at the FCC, and B&N’s marketing department have remained mum to boot. Well, it might be a new Nook reader like the Nook Color or even a new tablet, who knows, really?

Insider sources claim that it will be more of a new Samsung tablet than anything else, simply because B&N has promised Samsung in the past that it would sell a million tablets – and that is one promise that the company has failed to follow through until now.

Another thing to support such an insight – the timing makes plenty of sense, especially as this happens to be the traditional period where retailers would want to showcase some new hardware along the way, and B&N’s digital sales have not been the most groundbreaking to date, of course, and to introduce a new tablet right now would definitely be able to help them prop up their sales figures for the future.
(Source: Ubergizmo)

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Interestingly enough, the following book is available in a variety of formats including the Kindle.
by Patrick Kanouse

I am retiring this thread - the Nook is not being supported.