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Answer» I have some questions regarding my NOOK and how the wi-fi system works. Is this a place where I can get some help? THX, MicromosDid you just now buy one? Take fit back. It is a e-book, not a computer. One pundit called it JUNK and a reader responded: Quote ‎I've had a Nook Classic for almost a year. My daughter has had one for six months. We love it and take it everywhere we go. Never had a problem opening books. It's your money and you can certainly do what you want but I can't fathom such a waste. People both hate it and love it. But it is not a computer. Wanting to save a few bucks I bought one for my 10 year old daughter about a month ago for school. I promptly returned it and spent $30 more for a real tablet. Save a few more $$ and get a real tablet from a well known manufacturer. In the long run the extra money spent will be well worth it. Amazon.com, TigerDirect.com, NewEgg.com all have reasonable discounts on good tablets. If you go refurbished you can get a great deal. You can find the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7-Inch, Wi-Fi) for 129.99 at several online retailers including Walmart.com and BestBuy.com. But yes. If you want to KEEP it then ask away and we will help.Well, I like it. I have a book that I rented from the library currently on it but won't finish it before it expires and is taken back. I know I can still read it on the computer but if I turn off my wi-fi or computer off, will it STAY on my NOOK? What signal tells my NOOK to send it back?OK. Now you question is 'How can I expend the date of my e-book subscription.' Well, here at CH we are not supposed to help people with hacking. What are the terms from the library? Is there no easy way to extend your subscription without a HACK? Please excuse my ignorance. I have never got an e-book form the library. With a physical book you have to return it. Why is thee a time limit ? I assume there is some cost incurred by the library if you have the book for more that 21 DAYS. Or some other tine limit. In that case, a 'hack' would deprive the library of something that helps them provide a service. Is that true? Quote Question: I've heard that e-books expire. Is this true? Also, can I share e-books that I purchase with friends? Answer: In most cases e-books don't expire. However, libraries have started lending e-books. When the lending period is up, you can't read the e-books any more. As for sharing e-books, this isn't possible in most cases. That's because most stores use digital rights management to prevent piracy. Some e-readers do have a lending feature, though. For example, the Nook has the Lend Me feature. It lets you lend books to friends for 14 days. You can only lend a book once. And a publisher can disable this feature for certain e-books. So, this may limit the feature's usefulness. ... From USA today d 10/21/2010 by CyberSpeak The ebook one purchases cannot be disabled (legally). They do allow lending to one person for 14 days. The library however generally takes back the ebook after 14 days. They only purchase one or two ebooks so cannot lend out more than they purchase due to copyright laws I guess. I am wondering how they do that. There is no connection to the library from the NOOK. Is it because the library sends a signal to my computer which bounces the signal "wi-fi-ingly" to my NOOK? Or, is it because the ebook contains a "clock timer" embedded? Can that happen? I'm just wondering how it all works. Maybe it's magic! Is the cost of borrowing it for another 14 days high enough to make people want to "steal" from the library rather than support the e-book program?evilfantasy, That's what I wonder about also. As to the 'magic', the fact that the device can time 14 days indicates it can tine the duration of an event or state of being. It has to have a tinkerer of some kind just to work. All modern digital devices use a precise time base as a way of performing fast transformations. Like Audio decoding. Or video decoding. So yes, there is at least one digital clock inside the evidence. It has an accuracy of better than .005 % over a long time period. The clock runs even when the device is turned off. Does that answer your question? Do they not teach this inn school ? http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4926444_digital-clocks-work.html The e-books are probably on a timer. It could be identifying signatures on the tablet itself but I kind of doubt that since you can read them without a connection. Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 01, 2013, 10:33:34 PM it is not a computer. It is as much a computer as any other tablet, i.e. it is a computer. It is a tablet running Barnes & Noble's heavily modified version of Android, and locked to their app store, but apparently it is not too hard to make the Nook run standard open source Android, with access to Google Play etc and it is possible to make it multi-boot, that is run CyanogenMod (open source Android) from an SD card if present in the card slot, or if it not present, boot the standard Nook firmware which is internal. CyanogenMod 7 is based on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Cyanogen 10.1 is based on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) Just a couple of example pages http://liliputing.com/2012/03/how-to-dual-boot-cyanogenmod-7-nook-tablet-os-with-a-microsd-card.html http://androidcommunity.com/nook-color-gets-android-4-2-thanks-to-cyanogenmod-10-1-20130215/ Thanks for the input. Just to be clear, I wasn't going to "steal" anything. I was just wondering if anyone knew how it worked. I don't like to blindly use things or data without learning how things operate. One can never have too much knowledge. I'll have to look up the word "Tinkerer" in my cosmic data engineering handbook. I'd like to see what one looks like. Thx. MicromosIf you look back at what has been said you should be able to figure it out. (timer, clock) Other than that forum rules prohibit us from saying how in detail. Which really isn't much detail... Then there is Google.Tinkerer is from a Spider man comic book. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Tinkerer.jpg Quote tin·ker [ting-ker] noun 1. a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant. 2. an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler. 3. a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades. 4. an act or instance of tinkering: Let me have a tinker at that motor. Hey! I qualify! Sorry, I didn't know. Are the rules available for viewing?Quote from: micromos on September 03, 2013, 12:57:09 PM Sorry, I didn't know. Are the rules available for viewing? The Link is at the bottom of every page...

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I have some questions regarding my NOOK and how the wi-fi system works. Is this a place where I can get some help? THX, MicromosDid you just now buy one? Take fit back.
It is a e-book, not a computer.
One pundit called it JUNK and a reader responded:
Quote

‎I've had a Nook Classic for almost a year. My daughter has had one for six months. We love it and take it everywhere we go. Never had a problem opening books.
It's your money and you can certainly do what you want but I can't fathom such a waste.

People both hate it and love it. But it is not a computer.
Wanting to save a few bucks I bought one for my 10 year old daughter about a month ago for school. I promptly returned it and spent $30 more for a real tablet.

Save a few more $$ and get a real tablet from a well known manufacturer. In the long run the extra money spent will be well worth it. Amazon.com, TigerDirect.com, NewEgg.com all have reasonable discounts on good tablets. If you go refurbished you can get a great deal. You can find the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7-Inch, Wi-Fi) for 129.99 at several online retailers including Walmart.com and BestBuy.com.

But yes. If you want to KEEP it then ask away and we will help.Well, I like it. I have a book that I rented from the library currently on it but won't finish it before it expires and is taken back. I know I can still read it on the computer but if I turn off my wi-fi or computer off, will it STAY on my NOOK? What signal tells my NOOK to send it back?OK. Now you question is 'How can I expend the date of my e-book subscription.'
Well, here at CH we are not supposed to help people with hacking. What are the terms from the library? Is there no easy way to extend your subscription without a HACK? Please excuse my ignorance. I have never got an e-book form the library. With a physical book you have to return it. Why is thee a time limit ?

I assume there is some cost incurred by the library if you have the book for more that 21 DAYS. Or some other tine limit. In that case, a 'hack' would deprive the library of something that helps them provide a service. Is that true?
Quote

Question: I've heard that e-books expire. Is this true? Also, can I share e-books that I purchase with friends?
Answer: In most cases e-books don't expire. However, libraries have started lending e-books. When the lending period is up, you can't read the e-books any more. As for sharing e-books, this isn't possible in most cases. That's because most stores use digital rights management to prevent piracy. Some e-readers do have a lending feature, though. For example, the Nook has the Lend Me feature. It lets you lend books to friends for 14 days. You can only lend a book once. And a publisher can disable this feature for certain e-books. So, this may limit the feature's usefulness.
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From USA today d 10/21/2010 by CyberSpeak
The ebook one purchases cannot be disabled (legally). They do allow lending to one person for 14 days. The library however generally takes back the ebook after 14 days. They only purchase one or two ebooks so cannot lend out more than they purchase due to copyright laws I guess. I am wondering how they do that. There is no connection to the library from the NOOK. Is it because the library sends a signal to my computer which bounces the signal "wi-fi-ingly" to my NOOK? Or, is it because the ebook contains a "clock timer" embedded? Can that happen? I'm just wondering how it all works. Maybe it's magic! Is the cost of borrowing it for another 14 days high enough to make people want to "steal" from the library rather than support the e-book program?evilfantasy, That's what I wonder about also.

As to the 'magic', the fact that the device can time 14 days indicates it can tine the duration of an event or state of being. It has to have a tinkerer of some kind just to work. All modern digital devices use a precise time base as a way of performing fast transformations. Like Audio decoding. Or video decoding. So yes, there is at least one digital clock inside the evidence. It has an accuracy of better than .005 % over a long time period. The clock runs even when the device is turned off.

Does that answer your question?

Do they not teach this inn school ?
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4926444_digital-clocks-work.html
The e-books are probably on a timer. It could be identifying signatures on the tablet itself but I kind of doubt that since you can read them without a connection. Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 01, 2013, 10:33:34 PM

it is not a computer.

It is as much a computer as any other tablet, i.e. it is a computer. It is a tablet running Barnes & Noble's heavily modified version of Android, and locked to their app store, but apparently it is not too hard to make the Nook run standard open source Android, with access to Google Play etc and it is possible to make it multi-boot, that is run CyanogenMod (open source Android) from an SD card if present in the card slot, or if it not present, boot the standard Nook firmware which is internal. CyanogenMod 7 is based on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Cyanogen 10.1 is based on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)

Just a couple of example pages

http://liliputing.com/2012/03/how-to-dual-boot-cyanogenmod-7-nook-tablet-os-with-a-microsd-card.html

http://androidcommunity.com/nook-color-gets-android-4-2-thanks-to-cyanogenmod-10-1-20130215/

Thanks for the input. Just to be clear, I wasn't going to "steal" anything. I was just wondering if anyone knew how it worked. I don't like to blindly use things or data without learning how things operate. One can never have too much knowledge. I'll have to look up the word "Tinkerer" in my cosmic data engineering handbook. I'd like to see what one looks like. Thx. MicromosIf you look back at what has been said you should be able to figure it out. (timer, clock)

Other than that forum rules prohibit us from saying how in detail. Which really isn't much detail...

Then there is Google.Tinkerer is from a Spider man comic book.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Tinkerer.jpg
Quote

tin·ker
[ting-ker]
noun
1. a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
2. an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.
3. a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
4. an act or instance of tinkering: Let me have a tinker at that motor.

Hey! I qualify! Sorry, I didn't know. Are the rules available for viewing?Quote from: micromos on September 03, 2013, 12:57:09 PM

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