Why does NOOKstudy not work on my NOOK?

[Jeanne_Belin]

You cannot download or access eTextbooks on the NOOK.

Reasons include: The ability to interact with educational content is much more complex than interacting with recreational content.  Hand-held devices like the NOOK and other eReaders make it cumbersome to add notes and highlights - functions that students and faculty use regularly, and to easily to flip back and forth within an eTextbook.

NOOKstudy has functionality to support the unique characteristics of eTextbooks.  eTextbooks include extensive images and graphs that are often referenced on the same page and must render (show) completely.  eTextbooks are often designed in full-color with multiple columns.  Page fidelity is also an issue.  When technology for hand-held devices improves, we will have a compatible application.  

For all of these reasons, NOOKstudy was designed to work on the most utilized student and faculty technology device – the computer they already own.

[Beren]

This rationale makes perfect sense, but why not at least allow Nookstudy users to view and export notes taken on the Nook using its native note and highlight capabilities? Even the ability to export those notes to a simple .txt file would make it easier for students and researchers to use the Nook for academic purposes.

[edUcateMS]

Why call it NOOKstudy if it doesn't work on the NOOK?   The name implies that it should work on the NOOK.

I do agree with Beren that I would like to be able to export notes to the Nook for study.   I'd much rather haul around my NOOK than my laptop.   My NOOK is also less conspicuous than the laptop at faculty meetings and workshops.

[Beren]

I agree. I can see why they'd make the PC the primary platform for the study tool, but why they wouldn't at least integrate the actual Nook device with the Nookstudy software insofar as that's practical (i.e. allowing synchronization of appropriate kinds of texts, like literary texts, for instance, between Nookstudy and Nook, and allowing Nookstudy to access, search and organize notes taken on the Nook) is a complete mystery to me.

[TBMichael]

I'm not sure why the app is called NOOKStudy if it doesn't run on the Nook.  Seems kind of dumb to me.

The whole point of the handheld device is convenience, and if I'm tied to a PC what's the advantage?

I wondered about this last week when my bookstore manager was telling me about it.  I love Digital Editions, and ebook readers in general, but I didn't figure this was going to be a useful app. 

Maybe it's about DRM or whatever, but I hope B&N can get the kinks worked out and stop "marketing" and start "helping."

[jrforasteros]

I LOVE the NOOKstudy interface... but PLEASE add the ability to sync notes taken ON MY NOOK to the NOOKstudy.  This would increase the amount I will use/recommend it by about 1,000%.

When will this be available?

[jennifer918]

TBMichael wrote:  I'm not sure why the app is called NOOKStudy if it doesn't run on the Nook.

The way it was explained to me is that BN wants Nook to be the equivalent of a brand name that will be associated with BN.  I was told that there may be additional applications/devices that use the Nook brand name but with different goals/uses.

[willzzz88]

They do.

See my solution here:

http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/NOOKstudy-for-Students/Why-does-NOOKstudy-not-work-on-my-NOOK...

The e-texts in NOOKStudy are standard .pdf and .epub files which work fine on your nook.

[MountainTop]

I'm so sad to see how this is the way Nook Study is going to work - similar to CourseSmart.

Here is why it does not meet my needs.

I teach online.  When I am in my online classroom, I want to view my textbooks at the same time.  Since I am using my computer for my lecture in the online classroom, I can't use it at the same time to view my textbooks.  If I had my texts downloaded on a Nook or iPad, that would really work.  The online solution doesn't.

Also, I often need to reference my books when I am not online.  Nook Study does not work for that either.

Also, turning pages and navigating through online texts is agonizingly slow and tedious.  Much faster when downloaded onto a device.

I see how these online formats serve the publishers.  I fail to see how they meet our needs as teachers or students.  Publishers are going to have to get over their control issues and focus on meeting the needs of their users if electronic texts are ever going to be useful.

I want all of my books - including my texts - available on my e-reader.  Please!

[AlliMorann]

I am very sad to see that nookstudy does not work on a nook.  I am a student and I was really hoping to get the nook for my textbooks.  There is no reason now for me to purchase the nook.  I have spoken to many other students who all agree that if the nookstudy and ebooks were available on the nook that they would buy it in a heartbeat.  I wonder if B&N is aware of the sales they lose not having nookstudy on the nook. 

[Chiclitz]

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MountainTop wrote:

I'm so sad to see how this is the way Nook Study is going to work - similar to CourseSmart.

I see how these online formats serve the publishers.  I fail to see how they meet our needs as teachers or students.  Publishers are going to have to get over their control issues and focus on meeting the needs of their users if electronic texts are ever going to be useful.

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I'd say you've pinpointed the fly in the ointment, MT. Textbook publishers don't want to be saddled with limited distribution networks or with having to accomodate multiple proprietary file types, each with its own perverse security system.  Ideally, all publishers could get access to all distribution networks if only these pesky e-reader and e-book merchants would agree to adopt a standard file type for all e-textbooks.

I imagine publishers have had their hearts set of PDFs (and Adobe Digitial Editions) since PDFs have already proved their cross-platform worthiness and because Adobe keeps goosing their multimedia potential. (And then those iPad weasels had to go dump all over Flash and, pbbbbbbblpppppt!, there went the multimedia part of the program.)

Still it seems clear that PDF and ADE came first in this e-textbook michegas, and now B&N is trying to justify their conception of a nook study without nooks by dishing out nonsense about how much rich content is available in e-textbooks and how our nook colors are simply not up to handling all that high fat sophistication.

While that may be true of ultra-pricey science and technology e-textbooks, it most certainly is not true of all e-books marketed as e-textbooks. I recently purchased a nook study edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland because I wanted to get a look at the "related texts" touted in the book's full title. I was also curious about the likely pedagogical phantasmagoria awaiting me once I downloaded the novel and opened it in nook study.

Turns out this particular e-textbook is nothing but the plainest of plain PDF's--no fancy formatting, no color, no video files, no images beyond the lurid romantic cover art, no sidebars or intricate system of internal links. Hell, the footnotes are even honest-to-god traditional footnotes, displayed as "hard copy" in the footer of each page below a simple horizontal rule.

Why I'm not allowed to read this thing on my nook color is simply beyond me.

[Michunga]

I'm an English teacher at a college prep school and one of the main reasons I purchased my nook two days ago was so that I could use it in my classroom. 

The paperback versions of the novels I teach are much beloved, but falling apart.  They have years worth of notes in the margin, highlighting, and underlining that I'm willing to take the time to transfer all of this into my epub versions on my nook, but I want to be able to sync with nookstudy.  It would be so much easier for me to enter all of this information using nookstudy and then sync with my nook so I can use the information in my classroom.

I would also like to be able to print a list of the notes and bookmarks that I make in a book so that I can use it in my lesson plans and provide a copy to students who were absent during a lecture, making my life a whole lot easier.

Moderator - please, please, please, take this information back to the powers that be and make this a top priority.  My school is actively looking to possibly becoming an ipad school (yuk) and I want to be able to offer the nook as a viable alternative.  Without this functionality, it's just not.

Help!

[Michunga]

Update...

I was playing around with nookstudy and highlighted a passage in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  I also added a note.  I hit the sync button on what I believe is the "home page" and then hit the sync button on my nook.  Nothing happened.  I then played with exporting the note into a MS word file to see how it would look.  I then PDF'd the notes document, plugged the nook into my PC and moved the notes file to my nook.  A few minutes later I opened Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in my nook and noticed that the same passage was highlighted and the same note was in my nook.

Does this mean that the notes and highlights I make in a novel nookstudy will sync with my nook?  If so, which action caused this?  Is the reverse true - will the notes and highlights I make in novels in my nook now sync with nookstudy?

[frustratednook…]

I love parts of my nook and hate others.The part i hate is the false advertising by BN on calling it NookStudy. If the program cannot even be on the Nook, it should then not be called NookStudy. I just bought a ebook school book under the impression it would go onto my Nook. It did not, now it is on my desk computer where it does me no good when i need it in class. Waste of money now i will have to spend even more money to get the actual book so i have something to take to class. Thanks BN

For what it is worth i do enjoy the Nook for its other features

[MollyO]

NOOK is a brand, not just a singular product. NOOKstudy was not designed to work on our mobile devices and was actually released before NOOKcolor. The capacity of memory and the processor requirements would not be complimentary to a mobile e-reader at this time and they were never advertised as working together.

Due to the functionality of NOOKstudy (i.e. notes features, toggling between titles, and the functionality to be used in tandem with completing school-work, you would have always needed a computer or full-fledged tablet PC to utilize all of the features.) I'm sorry you are disappointed however I can assure you B&N is always looking for a way to integrate our programs and devices while upholding the integrity of each on its own first and foremost. 

I own a NOOKcolor as well and I can honestly say that I much prefer NOOKstudy for textbook access over attempting to toggle through a PDF textbook on the NOOKcolor. I'm glad you're enjoying your e-reader.

[RedKalanchoe]

I love NOOKStudy .  And I love my NOOK color!  

I can't wait until NOOKStudy becomes available on the NOOK Color, even if it's only a limited version.  

Here's my personal wish list for that NOOK compatible version (in case the B&N Wish Fairy is listening)

1. I'd love to be able to put a bookmarks into pdf's
2. I'd love to be able to highlight a paragraph
3. I'd love to be able to read the notes I've added to the PC version of my pdf.

I am so excited to think of all the trees we can save.  Life is good.

[maelma]

I just bought a Nook Color last week and then discovered Nook Study this week-- I was so excited . . . until I found out that the two don't work together, LOL! How crazy is that?! Come on, B&N, we need this. This would put Nook Color over the top. I, too, am tired of all the IPad hype--like others here, our school is looking at how the IPad could be used in the classroom. I would love to have another option. Being able to integrate Color and Study would make both research and teaching easier. Thanks!

[loranjen]

Dum! Dum! Dum!

To call it Nookstudy then not be able to use it on the nook color.  How brainy is that?  The main reason I bought my nook color was for etextbooks and to not have to pack a laptop around campus.  Now I can't even do that.  Where's the app for that?  Come on people at nook get your act together and make this ereader work for what we need it to or lots of your customers will turn to ipad and others of like model.  I'm about there myself sad to say.

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loranjen wrote:

Dum! Dum! Dum!

To call it Nookstudy then not be able to use it on the nook color.  How brainy is that?  The main reason I bought my nook color was for etextbooks and to not have to pack a laptop around campus.  Now I can't even do that.  Where's the app for that?  Come on people at nook get your act together and make this ereader work for what we need it to or lots of your customers will turn to ipad and others of like model.  I'm about there myself sad to say.

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Did you check on what the nook color can do?  It is an ereader/brower for casual readers.  It is not a working computer.  Thus the great price.

   It is, and has been, known that nookstudy is for computers because of the large sizes of textbooks.  The size and detailing of information in the texts is the issue.  That and the fact that Publishers control all.

    An ipad/laptop/etc are COMPUTERS with more memory and working capabilities that the nooks don't have and are not made to have. 

   You have to choose the unit that is right for you.

[DavidInDallas]

"When I am in my online classroom, I want to view my textbooks at the same time."

Simple solution.  Attach a monitor to your laptop.  I have a 21" wide screen monitor that I use in potrait view.  Since NookStudy tabs all open books/documents, I can switch easily between one book and another.  I can also import books and documents in PDF format, so I can switch between a book and the syllabus if I need to.  I do all my work on my laptop's screen and copy/paste as necessary without having to use the task manager.

Aside from that, I see a lot of comments here where the users don't sound like they have used the full capability of the application.  A lot of books come in PDF format these days, so it's not necessary to download it in NookStudy only format, since NookStudy can imort various formats.  So you can have it on your preferred e-reader as well as NookStudy.

As far as navigating around in the book, if your monitor is in potrait mode there is no need to scroll.  You can use the table of contents to navigate, bookmarks to go to frequently visited places, and notes to navigate to any place where you have annotated highlighted text.  You can also do searches that will get you quality results that Google would not.

C'mon people.  It's free.  At the very least, it's a much better way to navigate around PDF files than Acrobat Reader, which doesn't even remember the page you are on when you close the document.