![]() ![]() The memo TechCrunch saw didn’t detail when B&N would announce the 1.5.0 update, though if it will really go out on June 1, it won’t be long until official word comes down. Imagine saving short stories in Pocket then syncing them to the Nook where you can read them as easily and comfortably as a bestseller. Barnes & Noble devs should be working with app makers to make it easier to hook these services into the Nook. There are a lot of great reads available on the web, thus the popularity of services like Pocket, Readability, and Instapaper. Nook owners love to read and they probably read more than just e-books and magazines. Owners should also have the ability to email files to their Nook the way Kindle users can. It would be awesome to load DOC and RTF files and the PDF reader could use some improvement. It’s possible to sideload and read some document types on the E Ink Nooks, the experience just isn’t ideal. Also important: letting people pull their notes off a Nook. Giving people the ability to access notes on every device is important. They sometimes sync between Nook devices but don’t sync to the Nook desktop apps and often not to the apps for iOS and Android. Notes, highlights, and bookmarks? Not so much. Right now the only thing that sync reliably across the Nook ecosystem is B&N content: books, magazines, comings, etc. As long as they’re in a mood to update and extend functionality, there are some other features they should consider: What Nook features we wantĪdding these two apps to the Nook experience is a good first step, but Barnes & Noble can afford to go a little bit further. The Nooks both run on Android, so B&N might just utilize the stock email app. The email app is also a welcome addition, especially if it makes adding GMail, Yahoo, Outlook and other popular services easy. The Simple Touch and GlowLight are both fairly speedy E Ink devices, and that may help. It’s hard to build a good browsing experience for an E Ink device since the refresh rate is so slow compared to traditional screens. That’s not a knock on B&N – Amazon’s Kindle browsers aren’t that great, either. ![]() It has 2 gigs of internal storage with 236 megs available for your side-loaded files (via USB cable, it mounts as a removable drive on PCs and Macs). The original Nook e-reader had a browser that worked okay, but wasn’t eminently useful. The Nook Simple Touch has a microSD card slot so you can carry hundreds of titles with you (we found the reader bogged down when we exceeded a thousand titles on a card). Apparently B&N is going forward with this due to the positive response it got from adding the Google Play Store to the Nook HD and HD+. The update is supposed to bring a browser and email client to the e-readers as well as a refreshed on-device store experience. TechCrunch recently obtained internal documentation from an anonymous source that claims Barnes & Noble will update the Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch with GlowLight on June 1st. ![]()
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