User's Manual

76 Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor User Guide

Using an SD Memory Card

You can install an SD Memory Card in your NOOKcolor to add up to 32 GB of memory to your NOOKcolor—

enough for many thousand more books, along with periodicals, music, and personal ﬁles.

SD Memory Cards will hold about 1,000 book per gigabyte. The number of periodicals you can store on card de-

pends on the size of the periodicals and the amount of storage on the card. Digital magazines and newspapers vary

dramatically in size. Some highly interactive, photo-rich magazines can reach 1 GB each.

Types of Memory Cards Supported

Your NOOKcolor works with two types of SD Memory Cards: a microSD™ or microSDHC™ card. microSD and

microSDHC cards have the following logos:

Supplemental microSDHC cards will hold about 1000 eBooks per gigabyte. The amount of space for eBooks is af-

fected by how much space you devote to other ﬁles, such as music and audiobooks.

Following are the speciﬁcations of supported cards:

• A microSDHC card with a storage capacity of up to 32 GB.

• Class 6 microSDHC cards are supported. Class 6 is faster than class 4, which is faster than class 2. The class

should be mentioned on the packaging for the microSDHC card and printed on the card itself. If no speed is

indicated, the card is a class 2 card. The speed of the card does not aect page display speeds. It can aect read

and write speeds when transferring eBooks and personal ﬁles to and from the SD card.

• The microSDHC card must be formatted with a FAT32 ﬁle system.

If you have installed a memory card in your device, the Library will display links below the Media Bar oering two

choices for viewing content:

• My NOOK

• Memory Card

If you do not see this banner, a memory card is not installed in your NOOKcolor.

Inserting a Memory Card

To install a memory card in your NOOKcolor, do this:

1. Lay your NOOKcolor face down on a clean, level surface.

2. Find the small gray lid on the corner of your NOOKcolor closest to the open corner with the curved bar. Using

your ﬁnger tip, gently pull the lip open, folding it ﬂat against the back of the device.

3. Hold the memory card gently between your thumb and foreﬁnger, logo-side up. Gently guide the card into the

slot.

4. Push gently against the card, guiding it into the slot until it clicks into place.

5. Close the small gray lid and snap it into place.