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We have a B&N membership, which means we get discounts and coupons throughout the year. I don't pay that much attention to them, except this month in the usual coupons was one for a nook HD for $125 and nook HD+ for $145/$165 (16GB/32GB). I have a nook color and like it, but it's a little small for magazines, so I'd read those on my Transformer. Well, now that B&N added Google Play to the HD+, I was suddenly very interested. Checked a few things and I'm now the owner of a 32GB HD+. Immediately added Zinio and Kindle apps, so now I have (for me) the perfect ereader, and lots of other tablet functions. No real interest in rooting it. Tried that with the nook color and while it worked fine, I found I preferred the native nook reader to the nook android app. Now I have the best of both worlds.

That is all. Carry on.
 
BTW, I noticed on Fat Wallet that some people had a coupon number (not the physical coupon) and were able to get the deal online by calling. I assume you'd have to at least be a BN member since the coupon ties back to a member, but maybe not. I just read that not all members were getting the coupon in the mail, so if you didn't get one, check Fat Wallet and see what they did.
 
I took advantage of the Father's Day Nook sale to buy the HD+. Any tips and tricks that you have to share?
 
The father's day sale ($149) is really an incredible deal. I paid $30 more for mine on mother's day, and still think I got a great value.

One main area is to consider rooting or dual-booting into a more up-to-date and more generic Android environment. I used the AndroidForNook card ($20 for the card plus software) and am very pleased with this dual-boot setup. I find myself rebooting into the other environment about once per day. The rooted side (jelly bean) is generally more powerful and allows you to install some apps which are unavailable on the native Nook, but it seems to consume battery power more quickly.

The beautiful Retina screen (I bought this device so I can read PDFs in fine detail) gets greasy easily, so I recommend a microfibre cloth. I bought a simple $10 folding case which can act as an easel both vertically and horizontally, but it might be worth a bit more to buy a case which can also hold a microfibre cloth, as well as possibly a stylus. The screen isn't as sensitive as one might like, so it might be nice to have a stylus for the occasional frustrating moments, as well as for detailed drawing.

HTH ...
 
I also took advantage of the father's day deal and bought the HD+ (16gb) to replace my nook color. I love the screen and actually prefer it over my Transformer Prime. Don't get me wrong I love my Prime but the screen on the Nook is really great.
 
jae_63 said:
The father's day sale ($149) is really an incredible deal. I paid $30 more for mine on mother's day, and still think I got a great value.

One main area is to consider rooting or dual-booting into a more up-to-date and more generic Android environment. I used the AndroidForNook card ($20 for the card plus software) and am very pleased with this dual-boot setup. I find myself rebooting into the other environment about once per day. The rooted side (jelly bean) is generally more powerful and allows you to install some apps which are unavailable on the native Nook, but it seems to consume battery power more quickly.

The beautiful Retina screen (I bought this device so I can read PDFs in fine detail) gets greasy easily, so I recommend a microfibre cloth. I bought a simple $10 folding case which can act as an easel both vertically and horizontally, but it might be worth a bit more to buy a case which can also hold a microfibre cloth, as well as possibly a stylus. The screen isn't as sensitive as one might like, so it might be nice to have a stylus for the occasional frustrating moments, as well as for detailed drawing.

HTH ...
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I managed to keep from rooting or dual-booting, for all of about 4 days. Thursday night I decided it was time, and ended up using this Jellybean hybrid build on XDA.

I was initially only going to put Android on an SD card but, for some reason, I couldn't get the Nook to boot to the SD card. Oddly, once I decided to go hybrid, the SD card booted fine and I've had no issues since (despite the fact the CWM boot files are still on the SD card).
 
I just got the N2A SD card download, and so far it is sweet! Not quiet as stable as the Nook OS, but I love Jellybean, plus there were several Google Play apps that are incompatible on the Nook OS...but no more! Now if I could get a similar download for my Kindle Fire HD 8.9, but no SD slot on it, and no CM 10 for it. Oh well. The Nook HD+ is just about perfect for me now.
 
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