Nook Denied

It was Tuesday night. I was ready for bed. And like I do every night before I go to sleep, I took out my Nook to do a little reading. (Well, first I play a couple rounds of Candy Crush...)

I woke it up. I touched the little icon. And nothing happened.

Uh...

The thing was completely frozen. I tried hitting buttons, and I got nothing. In desperation, I hit both the power button and the home button at the same time.

Finally, movement. It rebooted. There was a little animation that showed that it was loading, and it counted up from 1% to 99%... And froze.

What do you do? The only trick I know is the reboot. That usually works. But it was sheer luck that I found that.

I had to go to bed without having anything to read. The next day I contacted customer service, and they taught me a new trick. How to get the thing to the factory reset.

Which meant I lost all my bookmarks. All my organization. But I had to do something. At this point my ereader was a doorstop (and not a very effective one).

Turns out that when the little Nook screen first pops up after hitting the power and home buttons at the same time, if you hit the home button then, the whole thing wipes and starts over.

And my Nook then again worked. After reloading all the software updates. And I had to restore all my settings by hand.

I've become a little dependent on my Nook.

(And I discovered a funny little trick. I actually loaded the Kindle app onto my Nook, so I can have the best of both worlds.)

Nook Issues

I have a nook. When researching the various eReaders, I decided that an important factor was being able to borrow eBooks from the library, and the Kindle doesn't do that. (I looked at the other eReaders on the market, but ultimately decided to go with something that had a major retailer behind it.)

It takes me a while to do anything new. I found a great sewing pattern for outdoor chair covers. I have the pattern. I bought the material. I even have thread. I just have to set aside some time to do the sewing. Who knows when I'll get to it? It's one of my quirks.

It took me a while to get a library card. (The county libraries check out eBooks, and I had never gotten around to getting a county library card.) Then I sat on that for a while. I only got around to checking out my first eBooks on Tuesday. On Wednesday, while waiting for my car's routine service, I pulled out my nook to dive into that library book.

"User not authorized."

Oh great! Of course, there was nothing I could do about it then. (I had other books loaded on the nook, so I wasn't stuck watching CNN.) I had to wait until I could get back home to my computer.

I love the Internet. All I had to do was search "authorize nook adobe" and I found my answer. It was pretty simple, too, but I wouldn't have figured it out on my own.

Am I the only one with a nook? Anyone else out there checking out eBooks from the library? Any recommendations?