NOOK User Guide Your NOOK 24
Your NOOK
This section explains your NOOK hardware. It also summarizes key features and explains the Home
menu.
Hardware Highlights
Your NOOK has:
• Reading screen: This is where you read your eBooks, magazines, and newspapers. The
reading screen is a 600 x 800, 3.57 x 4.82 inch (6-inch diagonal), reflective high-resolution E Ink
electronic paper display. The reading screen displays 16 levels of gray. The reading screen is not
a touchscreen; you navigate on the reading screen using the color touchscreen.
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• Color touchscreen: A 480 x 144 color touchscreen is used for menu navigation, D-pad
navigation, a keyboard, and display of cover thumbnail graphics. The touchscreen supports
gestures (for example, tapping your finger to choose a menu item and swiping your finger to
scroll through eBook covers). The screen brightness is controlled by an ambient-light sensor (or
you can set a fixed level). When you are reading and the touchscreen is not lit, you can turn
pages by swiping your finger on the touchscreen.
• Wireless connectivity: Your NOOK or NOOK Wi-Fi can use Wi-Fi connectivity to connect
to the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, to synchronize with your online digital library, and for
