Your NOOK gives you full control over many areas of its operations, from Wi-Fi connections to font sizes.
Your NOOK’s built-in Settings screen make it easy to adjust the configuration of your NOOK. To access the Settings screens:
- On the Home screen or the Search screen, or in your Library or the NOOK Store, tap the gear icon in the Status Bar to open on the Quick Settings window.
- Tap the All Settings button.
The Settings screen leads to pages for configuring different aspects of your NOOK. When you’re on a page for a specific feature, you can always return to the main Settings screen by tapping the back arrow on the upper left of a page.
Configuring GlowLight
You can use the GlowLight Settings screen to turn GlowLight on and off and to adjust its brightness. (You can also make these adjustments using the Quick Settings window, which is described earlier in this guide.)
To configure GlowLight, do this:
1. On the Settings screen, tap GlowLight. The GlowLight settings screen opens.
2. To change the setting of GlowLight, tap the checkbox.
• If GlowLight is off, tapping the checkbox turns it on.
• If GlowLight is on, tapping the checkbox turns it off.
3. To adjust the brightness of GlowLight, make sure it is turned on, then slide your finger along the brightness control to make the light dimmer or brighter.
Configure Your GlowLight Screen
On the Screen Settings page, you can:
• Change the amount of time your NOOK should wait when no activity is taking place before turning off the screen.
• Select the screensaver your NOOK displays when it turns off the screen and goes into sleep mode.
To display the Screen Settings page, tap the word Screen on the main Settings screen.
Adjusting the Screen Timeout
When your NOOK has been setting for some amount of time and no activity has taken place (i.e., you haven’t tapped the screen or pressed any buttons), your NOOK turns off its screen to conserve power. When that happens, you can turn on your NOOK again simply by pressing the NOOK button.
By default, your NOOK Glowlight waits 5 minutes before turning off the screen.
To adjust the screen timeout for your NOOK, do this:
1. On the Settings screen, tap Screen.
2. On the Screen Settings page, tap the menu choice Screen timeout.
A dialog box appears with four menu choices:
• 2 minutes
• 5 minutes
• 15 minutes
• 1 hour
3. Tap on the menu choice listing the amount of time you want your NOOK to wait. The dialog box closes. Your change takes effect right away.
Selecting a Screensaver
The screensaver is the image your NOOK displays after it has been idle for the amount of time you configured as the screen timeout (see above).
Your NOOK includes a default set of screensaver images.
NOTE: You can add your own collection of screensavers. Each image in the collection should be a .GIF, .JPG, or .PNG file. Connect your NOOK to your personal computer, and using your computer’s file navigation controls, (such as Finder on a Mac) open the screensavers folder on your NOOK. Create folder for your images and give it a one-word title, such as kids. Then drag the .GIF, .JPG, or .PNG files from your personal computer into the folder you created. To make your screensaver active, select it using the steps below.
To change the screensaver on your NOOK, do this:
1. On the Settings screen, tap Screen.
2. On the Screen Settings page, tap the Screensaver button. A dialog box opens, listing the screensavers available.
3. Tap the name of the screensaver or set of screensavers you want to use. The dialog box closes, and your selection takes effect right away, though you won’t see the screensaver until the next time your NOOK goes to sleep.
Viewing and Configuring Device Info
To display device information: on the Settings screen, tap Device Info.
Your NOOK displays the Device Info page, which shows:
• a battery charge status bar, showing how much power is left on your battery
• an available storage status bar, showing how much free storage is left on your NOOK’s internal storage
The Device Info page also presents three menu choices:
• About Your NOOK
• Erase & Deregister Device
• Legal
The "Device Info" presents useful information about your NOOK.
Displaying System Information
Tap the "About Your NOOK" menu choice to display the following information:
• Owner, the name of the owner of this NOOK
• Account, the email address of the NOOK (or bn.com) account linked to this NOOK
• Software version, the version number of your NOOK software
• Model number, the model number of your NOOK
• Serial number, the unique serial number of your NOOK
• Wi-Fi MAC address, a unique networking address your NOOK uses when its connects to a Wi-Fi network
