Nook Color / Tablet Previewer

[Mfontaine12]

Nook for PC uses the older format and will not preview a full-size book formatted for Nook Color/Tablet. I cannot read a recent Nook Kids ebook purchase. When will there be software for this?

[Strayer]

Does the kid ebook have special features like read to me? Go to Nook Color board and ask them about it. I'm sorry you can't read the book. They may have a solution.

[Sandara01]

I've got a similar concern about the previewer. I am battling to set up a children's picture book and have gotten as far as setting it up in OpenOffice Writer, converting it to a .pdf, dragging it into a program to turn it into a .cbz file (comic book) in an attempt to get it to a 2 page display option, then running it through a .cbz to epub converter. It is still truncating the bottoms of the pages . . . BIG TIME . . . if I view it in the previewer. Whether the post PUBIT would be truncated on an actual NOOK, I don't know. I installed the pre PUBIT file on my Nook, and I'm getting close . . . but it wouldn't do the two page spread. Where do I find a program to convert from a .cbz to an epub that will size correctly (1 and 2 page) in a NOOK color. Or is there another way of doing this?

[Strayer]

In Writer, put all of the text in first, no headers or footers. Use a plain font. Don't use double space. Insert the pictures, in Word, I used page break before and after the picture. Some used section break. The pictures should size to the page. Save as a Word doc. You don't need to convert the document. Pubit does that. It converts the .doc to epub. You won't get a side by side pages on the Nook. There isn't a landscape view, only portrait. No two page display option. It is fine as one page after another. My book previewed showing the text and the next page picture, etc. No fancy formatting. It is easier than what you are doing and what you are doing won't work. Also, no page numbers. The size of the ereader screen varies. Some people use different ereaders than Nook. There are apps that can be downloaded by customers and and used on other ereaders. In computer stuff, there is usually an easier way to do things. Look over the Pubit FAQs and that helps. Ask more questions if needed. If the document is screwed up, start over with a clean document.

[Sandara01]

1) I'm using a 3.56" by 5.81" page setup, no headers, no footers, no page numbers. 14 point Arial with a .25 line height (to distribute the writing correctly -- it overwrites the pictures). Text is contained within textboxes since I needed to add tint to lighten background over dark portions of pictures. Page breaks between pictures (yes, they resized correctly).

2) The book is full color, with a pixel count close to matching that of the Nook Color. I cut page pixel height count to 970 (from 1024) to account for book title header displayed by Nook (NOT my header). That reduced the bottom of the page truncation on the computer epub reader, but when I imported the file to my Nook, the last line or two on several pages was cut off.

3) The book is 56 MB in Writer. Pubit won't take it that way (too large). Word will probably double that.

PDFing, followed by .cbz, then epub gets the file down to a size and format PUBIT will accept. Attempts to take it from Writer to PDF to epub resulted in the pages being "shattered" -- a 53 page book ended up over a hundred pages long with a bit of the page 1 graphic on the first page, more of it on the second page, etc. Ecomic (cbz) followed by epub gave me better results. Another epub converter stripped the textboxes and tinting, resulting in an unreadable document.

4) B&N Nook Tablet has 2 page spreads for children's books. (I went to B&Nand checked it.) If I can't get a two page spread, the file will get larger since I will need to add small pictures on the text only pages . . . I hate to think of turning a graphics rich picture book into something more difficult for children to follow (pictures and text on separate pages). And that still gets back to the fact . . . unless I go through the steps I outlined, the file is too large.I realize a lot of children's picture books have small, "spot" graphics . . . but not this one. If I can get it onto the Nook, it will be awesome . . . and could set a new "standard" for what Nook children's books could be.

I have read the FAQs and been battling this since December. I have redone the document at least a dozen times, trying different options to meet PUBIT's requirements. Ain't "there" yet, but still trying.

So,

1) how do I get a two page spread,

2) how do I get a file that will "resize" rather than truncating, and

3) if ecomic to epub is not acceptable, how do I get PUBIT to accept a file over 56 MB?

Thank you