Do not connect it to using your Nook and a USB cable.
There is a chance you will brick your Nook. There seems to be a recommendation that this is the same account that you use for your Barnes & Noble account, but I can’t confirm that not doing this makes it any more difficult, as mine was the same anyway
I had to do a factory restore to recover it – after a good 10 minutes of panicking. I tried TouchNooter initially, as Alan did in his article, and it ended up failing. For FW 1.2.0, you have to use Nook Manager.
There will likely be equivalent software available on other OS’s – feel free to leave your suggestions below in the comments You can pick up one at Amazon for about £1 However, it worked fine with the external reader. I tried using my laptop’s built in SD card reader, but I couldn’t get Win32DiskImager to recognise my SD card. To root the Nook, you only need 1 SD card, I just happened to have 2 lying around. In my instance, I used the 2GB one for rooting and installing items on the Nook, and the 8GB one is my standard storage device for storing books on. Amazon sell a 16GB Class 6 Card for about £8. For performance, a number of people have found significant increases in performance with Class 6 or higher, so if you are buying new, then that might be something to look out for. I had 2 spare left over from older phones – a 2GB one and an 8GB one. You can also get cashback through many stores stocking the Nook by signing up to TopCashBack (UK only I think). Last I heard, the Nook Store had sold out, but there are some in stock at Currys (affiliate link). Update: Currently the Nook Simple Touch is on offer at £29. Alan’s Lifehacker article describes the process for Firmware earlier than 1.2.0, so if that includes you, then I recommend you read this article in conjunction with Alan’s. I believe that this will also work with FW 1.2.1 also, but I have not tried it. You can pick one up from Amazon for about £79.
I found a great article on how to root my Nook, by Alan Henry at Lifehacker. I am considering digitising my engineering reference books so that I can keep them all in one place, whether I am in the office, or visiting customers. Perfect for ample leisure reading material, reference books etc. Their crisp e-ink screen is as good as reading a book, and with the ability to expand the memory using SD cards, you can carry around a complete library wherever you go. Please be aware that the following article contains affiliate links.Į-readers are great, and in particular the Nook. I didn’t want to be tied to any one book store, and I wanted the ability to read long internet articles on it too, which I tend to save to Pocket.
Basically, because it runs Android in the background, so it gave me lots of options for rooting it. I chose the Nook Simple Touch as my base unit. The idea was, to turn it into my ideal e-reader tool.
Recently I picked up a refurbished Nook on eBay for a bargain price.