{"id":1059,"date":"2011-01-19T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2011-02-25T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:25:09","slug":"nook-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/nook-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Nook Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of software revision 1.1, here&#8217;s what I am finding to be lacking in the Nook Color or areas that could easily be improved.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ePub files cannot be viewed in landscape orientation (!)<\/li>\n<li>None of the &#8220;Library&#8221; application&#8217;s screens can be viewed in landscape orientation (looking at a book shelf, navigating folders under My Files, etc)<\/li>\n<li>No Flash (Youtube works)<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly &#8220;Head First&#8221; PDF files are missing all images when viewed (images are shown when viewed on a PC with any typical PDF viewer)<\/li>\n<li>Double-tap in the browser zooms.  Double-tap in the PDF viewer does nothing, and could.  Dumb.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Back&#8221; button is in a different location in just about every application that has one<\/li>\n<li>Browsing &#8220;Library &gt; My Files &gt; Pictures&#8221; I cannot long-press on an image to set it as my wallpaper (only option is &#8220;Open&#8221;).  Dumb.<\/li>\n<li>Browsing &#8220;Library &gt; My Files &gt; [anything]&#8221; if you change the view mode via the upper right menu, you lose your place and are taken back to the top of &#8220;media&#8221; which contains &#8220;My Files&#8221;.  Dumb.<\/li>\n<li>There is no real overall consistency.  Every application or function appears to have been written by a different group of developers.\t<\/li>\n<li>Some files I&#8217;ve placed in &#8220;media &gt; My Files &gt; Books&#8221; result in &#8220;Failed to obtain item details&#8221; when long-pressed while trying to add them to a shelf or home screen.  Awesome.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sideloaded&#8221; books (not purchased from B&#038;N) cannot be pinned to the main desktop.  This makes the desktop almost entirely useless for me.<\/li>\n<li>ADDED 1\/28\/2011: The 1.1.0 update from B&#038;N fixes none of these items.<\/li>\n<li>ADDED 1\/28\/2011: Viewing in landscape mode, selecting the quick settings (lower right) <em>changes everything to portrait mode<\/em> while you change your settings.  When you&#8217;re finished, everything goes back to landscape mode.<\/li>\n<li>ADDED 1\/28\/2011: Pinch-zooming in the browser was added in 1.1.0.  It is buggy and inconsistent.<\/li>\n<li>ADDED 1\/28\/2011: Moving a web page in order to bring up the +\/- zoom buttons, then clicking + (zoom in) almost never does anything at all the first time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else works well for me so far, but it may be going back to the store or get rooted.  The finish quality on the software is really poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of software revision 1.1, here&#8217;s what I am finding to be lacking in the Nook Color or areas that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}