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When the Nook Color and Tablet were first offered, users could install third-party apps. [10] However, days before Christmas 2011, the forced over-the-air "firmware update from Barnes & Noble for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color – 1.4.1 – close[d] the loophole that allowed users to sideload any Android app and also [broke] root for those who'[d] gone that extra step to customize the device."
The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to another, as well as to create, edit and publish e-books.
Calibre is a cross-platform free and open-source suite of e-book software. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats.
Only the original Nook and the Nook Color support sound files. Nook supports image file formats JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP, used for book cover thumbnails, wallpapers, and screen savers. [6] The Nook provides a "LendMe" feature allowing users to share some books with other people, depending on licensing by the book's publisher.
Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Sony devices do not support FictionBook directly. Conversion to and from FictionBook2 files (.fb2 and .fbz) is possible via the cross-platform eBook management software Calibre. [2] Conversion to and from FictionBook2 format is also available via Pandoc.
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Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.
Often known as truecolor and millions of colors, 24-bit color is the highest color depth normally used, and is available on most modern display systems and software. Its color palette contains (2 8 ) 3 = 256 3 = 16,777,216 colors. 24-bit color can be represented with six hexadecimal digits.