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Hopefully this problem will be addressed in a future firmware update. Although the Nook Color is in essence tailored to the Barnes and Noble store, you can load ebooks you get from other sources, or have downloaded from the internet.

If you download ebooks that do not have DRM you can load the ePub books directly on your e-reader via plugging it into your computer via USB cable.

The Nook Color, offers users to really self-manage their content really well, the directory structure offered by Windows Explorer, makes it so everything is neatly in its own independent directory.

It makes it very intuitive right out of the box to be able to manage your content. They have directories for audio, pictures, music, video, and ebooks. When browsing content you have uploaded to your device, via My Files you can tap on say a video, or a music file and it will automatically load, which is very good. The Nook color is one of the best LCD based e-readers we have seen to date. We have played around with many, including the Sharper Image Literati e-reader, but the Nook Color is the best of the lot currently.

You can tell that they put a ton of time into the development of this little dandy and it looks really polished. The unit itself is sleek and black and all of the buttons are almost sunken into the frame, so nothing needlessly sticks out.

What we really like about the unit, is that its head to toe almost one giant touch screen, all of the icons and menu items are easily clicked one, with rarely any accidental clicking. The one drawback with clicking is browsing the internet. There is only one degree of zooming, so when you double tap the screen to zoom, it often does not really zoom all that much.

This is mainly due to the fact, that internet browsing is not really indicative to the Nook Color, especially if there are user fields for you to enter, we missed clicking fields many times, because even when we were totally zoomed in, they seemed small and feeble. We almost were wishing they included a Stylus to be able to interact with the device while internet browsing.

Although some websites that mainly written content, such as our own Good e-Reader Blog, were easy to navigate while surfing the internet, websites that had lots of fields, or complex websites did not look so good, and were a nightmare to navigate. From beginning to end, this device is great!

The one feature I would say is going to create a ton of controversy is the LCD aspect of it. Many e-ink purists may knock this device, saying LCD is not conducive to a proper e-reading experience. It comes down to a matter of preference. From Televisions, to MP3 Players, to Smartphones and computer screens LCD dominates our lives; some people find adapting to e-ink this late in the game is something they are not willing to do.

Most people, who find themselves reading in lowlight conditions or reading at night, find e-Ink is not the best option for their environment. With LCD it does offer a back-lite screen so you can read in most circumstances, and with Vividview the new proprietary anti-glare system Barnes and Noble is employing, it actually reads better outdoors.

It will be interesting to compare Pixel-QI screens with VividView technology to see how they both rate. When it comes down to it, this unit is not as expensive as an Apple iPad, which is the device of choice for LCD based e-reading, if sales numbers do all the talking.

Both screens are made with the same IPS screen technology, minus the Vividview, which allows for degree viewing angles of the screen. Also the unit plays Youtube videos, although the resolution over WI-FI is not that great, it makes up for it when you load your own videos into it.

I think Barnes and Noble scored a total win with the Nook Color. The second generation platform launched in early and focuses on getting indie authors to submit their books for inclusion into the Nook bookstore. It is my belief that Nook Press is bad for authors and solely exists to financially gouge them at every opportunity. She opened up a dialog with Author Solutions and deal was struck in October.

One month later she was fired from Barnes and Noble. The Author Solutions deal finally allowed Barnes and Noble to make a lot of money from their cadre of self-published authors. Basically if there is a way to gouge an author to pay money for something from e-book formatting to an ISBN number, they are doing it.

Many aspiring authors are unaware that it is not Barnes and Noble that is conducting these services, but instead everything is outsourced to Author Solutions. Author Solutions has a terrible reputation in the writing community for the deceptive methods it uses to ensnare authors, its sub-standard and over-priced services, and its high-pressure sales tactics aimed at selling completely ineffective and ridiculously expensive marketing packages.

The company is also being sued by many different authors who claim they exist as predatory monsters, who see authors only as profit. Things are so bad right now that even the Authors Guild has severed ties with them. I have tried contacting them to give a key file too. My personal email address is the same as the NOOK account. Step 5. You can multi-select the books you want to decrypt and drag them to the right pane. Then you can click on the folder icon to check the decrypted eBooks, which are in TXT format.

After all, your password is sent via email or web.