User's Manual

24 Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor User Guide
The Home Screen and the Daily Shelf
The Home Screen is the default display on your NOOKcolor. You can return to the Home Screen at any time by
pressing the Home button on the front of your NOOKcolor.
The Home Screen consists of two main areas: three panels of open space that fill most of the screen, and the Daily
Shelf running along the bottom of the screen.
Home Screen Panels and the Panel Indicator
The top portion of the Home Screen consists of three panels of open space you can use for keeping books, maga-
zines, and newspapers close at hand.
Only one Home Screen panel is visible at a time.
You can tell which panel you’re viewing by looking at the panel indicator at the top of the screen. The panel indicator
is a row of three little dots, each representing a Home Screen panel. One dark will be dark, and that dot’s position
indicates which of the three panels you’re currently viewing: left, center, or right.
Here’s an example of the left panel of the Home Screen. Notice that the leftmost circle in the panel indicator is dark,
indicating that you’re viewing the left panel of the Home Screen.
And here’s an example of the right panel. The rightmost circle in the panel indicator is dark, identifying which panel
you are viewing.
Swipe your finger left or right across the screen to move from one panel to another.
Notice that the Home Screen and the Daily Shelf (the row of books and periodicals at the bottom of the screen)
scroll independently of each other. Notice also that the Keep Reading pull-down menu, located in the upper right
corner, is visible on all three panels of the Home Screen.
The Keep Reading Menu
The Keep Reading menu at the top of the Home Screen oers you easy access to the books, periodicals, and files you
have read most recently. The menu lists:
• Titles and authors of the three most recent books you have read
• Titles and publications dates of the five most recent periodicals you have read
• Titles and file types of the three most recent files you have opened in the My Files folder
If you haven’t read any content in one of these categories, that category will not appear in the menu. For example, if
you haven’t read any newspapers, yet, the Keep Reading menu will omit its newspapers section.
When the Keep Reading menu is closed, it displays the title of the most recent item you have been reading.
To open the menu, tap the down arrow.
Once the menu is open, tapping on a title in the menu opens that book, periodical, or file for reading.
Optionally, you can close the menu without making a selection by tapping on the up arrow at the bottom of the list
of items.
The image below shows how the Keep Reading menu looks closed.