I've been a B&N Nook user for almost a year now. It is a very nice device for reading novels and other material without color or significant graphics. B&N has provided free downloads of software readers to complement their nook for PCs, Macs, Blackberrys, and iPhones. With these downloads, you can read the purchases you made for you Nook on your computer or smart phone, too.
Well, B&N has now advanced the capability well beyond just reading your nook books on your PC. They've created a new software product just for the PC and Mac that is targeted toward students and faculty who use electronic textbooks. The new NookStudy program is a free download from B&N. Once loaded on your PC or Mac, you have access to your entire library of B&N ebooks. In addition, you can load epub and PDF files into the application from your local file system. B&N ebooks are automatically sync'd with their server, while the locally loaded files are not backed up by B&N.
So, what does NookStudy give you that you didn't already get from the Nook ereader application? It becomes a central notetaking and study tool for anyone who maintains a library of ebooks for research and uses those books for study, research, and reporting. NookStudy provides advanced highlighting tools and annotation tools to the user. It also allows you to copy selections of text from the ebooks for pasting into documents such as term papers and reports. When a snippet is pasted, NookStudy automatically includes a reference for the source book or file - built in sourcing!
How can this be handy for genealogists? Most of us have many ebooks and pdf files collected for our research. As we prepare our research, we often copy material from these documents. NookStudy serves to aid us in our source referencing while we research. It also allows us to organize our materials into logical groups of documents. NookStudy calls these "courses", but they may as well be "families" or "countries". You click and drag your books and files and drop them onto the folders you create to stay organized. You can place books in more than one folder, too.
Check out NookStudy at B&N. You may find it helps you manage your source books and documents on line.
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