NOOK For Android - Beta testers needed

[BN_AlexG]

Hi everyone!

We're looking for volunteers to help beta test our latest NOOK for Android Free Reading App (for both Tablets and Phones).

If you’d like an opportunity to help, please email NOOKbeta@book.com with the following information:

- email address

- device(s)

- OS in use

- phone number 

Volunteers will receive a message with more information.

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you!

-Alex 

[BruceMcF]

Does the new app include manga like the new Viz Media ebooks, that currently only play on iOS, Nook Color and Nook Tablet? That is, is this bringing something like the new 1.4 Nook Tablet/Color ereader to general Android devices?

[Omnigeek]

How is this bet a different from the one I already have?

[BruceMcF]

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Omnigeek wrote:

How is this bet a different from the one I already have?

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You mean from the reader on the Nook Color / Tablet or from the current general Android app?

My question was kind of whether the difference would be making the general Android app more like the Nook Color/Tablet 1.4.1 reader ... especially, in how it reads "Nook Comic"(TM) ebooks, which are not just ordinary ePub files like some of the previous graphic novels which caused much complaint among graphic novel readers.

[Omnigeek]

I meant from the current general Android app I have on my smartphone now.

[BruceMcF]

Hopefully it will be an upgrade to the Nook Color version 1.4.1 reader. From what I understand, the general Android app at the moment doesn't have the dedicated Nook Comics support.

[Guyon]

Do you have to be rooted to beta test?

[BruceMcF]

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Guyon wrote:

Do you have to be rooted to beta test?

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You mean, on your other Android device? I'd guess that you probably have to have allow 3rd party apps checked ... however, that's an open setting on lots of devices, and if it is, there probably wouldn't be a need to root the device.

[BruceMcF]

Saw a manga fan at Anime News Network invited to help with beta testing ~ this was a big issue in the discussion in January of the new Viz Media digital manga volumes, where people describing their experience with manga laid out as basic ePub ebooks and read on the current Android app were really down on it, but people who'd had a chance to read the new format manga on an iPad were much more favorably impressed.

I had a chance to sample one of the Nook Comics on the 1.4 ereader, and it is pretty nice ~ its only one step below reading Gen Comic (DRM free) pdf comics on the Nook Color, where the stock pdf reader allows you to stay zoomed in from one page to the next.

So I'm happy to hear that the new ereader does indeed include Nook Comic support.