User's Manual
18 Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor User Guide
Press and Hold
Pressing and holding means touching your finger to the screen and holding it there for 2 seconds.
In many situations, pressing and holding causes your NOOKcolor to open a pop-up menu. The pop-up menu—some-
times called a contextual menu—oers you choices about the image your finger is resting on.
For example, if you press and hold on a book cover, your NOOKcolor opens a menu oering you choices of things
you can do with that book: open the book, recommend it, lend it, and so on.
Pressing and holding on a word in a book opens the Text Selection Toolbar.
NOTE: On smartphones, the “press and hold” gesture is sometimes called a “long press.”
Swipe
To swipe is to slide your finger across the screen as though you were brushing away a cake crumb. You can swipe
left, as though you were swiping the crumb away to the left. Or you can swipe right, as though you were swiping the
crumb away to the right.
You’ll typically swipe to scroll through a long list or collection things, such a row of book covers on the Daily Shelf.
Swiping to scroll left and right.