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Reading
This section explains the
f
eatures available when reading an eBook or periodical chosen
f
rom you
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library. For in
f
ormation about reading eBooks when in Barnes & Noble Bookstores, see
“
Read in
S
tores
”
on page
84.
T
o resume rea
d
ing, tap rea
d
ing no
w
on t
h
e
H
ome menu
:
reading now
Wh
en you tap rea
d
ing no
w
, you are returne
d
to t
h
e
l
ast rea
d
page in t
h
e e
B
oo
k
or perio
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ica
l
t
h
a
t
you were rea
d
ing
l
ast on you
r
N
OOK
, even i
f
you have turned you
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OOK
o since you were last
K
rea
d
ing
.
S
upported File Format
s
Y
ou
r
N
OOK
supports digital reading content (for example, eBooks and periodicals) in the following
K
f
ormats
:
•
e
P
u
b
, including DRM-secured
fi
les and
fi
les without DRM
•
PDB
, including DRM-secured
fi
les and
fi
les without DR
M
•
PDF
, including password-secured
fi
les and
fi
les that are not secure
d
O
rientatio
n
The reading orientation is vertical
(
o
f
ten called portrait orientation
)
. You hold the reader upright,
and text is displayed in lines across the reading screen
.
PDF documents can support rotated pages, though this is not common and not especially use
f
ul
f
or eBooks. In such a PDF, one or more pages
(
and possibly an entire document
)
can have pages
that have been rotated
90
degrees clockwise,
90
degrees counterclockwise, or 1
80
degrees. You
r
N
OOK
doesn’t exactly support such documents, but it tries. It does not rotate the text but does
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rotate any grap
h
ics
.