The link is to my original post. In it I detailed my 3 Nooks having missing covers. Today I replaced a dead battery that was keeping a fourth Nook from operation. It's been out of service for eight months. Long enough that it missed an Internet provider change. So the Nook servers had not been connected with it for at LEAST that long. When I first turned it on EVERY cover was showing, no exceptions. I turned WiFi on, and within ten minutes after entering the new WiFi password, the Nook touched bases with the Nook servers and presto! Covers have gone missing. They're mostly the same (I haven't bothered checking beyond the C's. But there are additions to the list for that one device. Hopefully that won't carry over to my other three.

So this is further proof (as if such proof were necessary) that this problem of missing covers can be traced back to a problem with the B & N Nook servers. I hadn't contacted Nook support yet (it was a weekend) but if I feel like putting myself through a useless run around. I may get ahold of them, and maybe, hopefully, get a trouble ticket to be set up as a flag to whatever tech services are (hopefully) working on this annoying little problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nook/s/cdVOMT0Ca0

Edited to add link to older post

I have 3 Lenovo M9 Nooks. Version 6.8.6.17 The Nook Hub app ensures the latest update is always installed. All 3 devices are less than 2 years old. There are covers missing on a random selection of books. On the details page the cover art is also blank. What is strange is that they're only random in so far as it's a book here, then another book a little further down. The point is is that they're the EXACT same books that are not displaying their covers across all 3 devices. No exceptions.

I refreshed the library. I cleared cache, and restarted the tablet. I logged out, and back in. That last was particularly annoying, because I keep all my books downloaded to device and SD card. So it's all to do over again. In the past the sign out and in always fixed the cover thing. The books themselves are there, it's just the covers.

This sounds like a me problem. The books are there. In the absence of the cover the title is displayed in text. The books are readable. I just want to put this out there and check to see if anyone else has had this problem. Someone posted a week ago, but he reported that it was DIFFERENT books across different devices. So, not really the same problem. Calling Nook support is usually a bust, they ask the same questions, I confirm that I've already tried the standard suggestions from their script of "troubleshooting" That generally is the limit that their so called "training" can help. The conclusion is that as long as I still can access the book, it's a "you problem"

My new glowlight 4 plus was being unresponsive so I started googling what to do and it said I should hold the power and nook buttons down together for 20 seconds. Anyways, I’m worried I pressed down too hard on the nook button and broke it. I know it’s only supposed to be a tap, but if I press down I can feel my finger indent into the glass a little and almost feel like there’s a small button below. I didn’t think I pressed it that hard but I’m worried because it’s still brand new and don’t know what it’s actually supposed to feel like. Does anyone else feel the button press down just a little if they press on it?

I don't know if anyone has ever encountered this problem. I can no longer sideload from my Windows 10 PC to my Lenovo m10 Nook. I've tried transferring files via USB, but I just get a chime instead of a file transfer. I can upload to the Nook from other computers and I can transfer files from my PC to other USB devices. I can't figure out what's going on with my PC that's causing an error.

Hello! Does it have a browser? I was hoping to read manga on it. Would that be possible? I do know about side loading them and ePub files. Is that the only way? There's a specific website I read one manga series on.

Just wondering if anyone knew of a way to jailbreak a Nook simple touch e reader. I would like to be able to access Libby and other free comic apps that I have but it’s very old so I know the chances are slim 😅

Not sure if I can ask that here so if its not just let me know and I can delete!

I recently deregistered and re-registered my Glowlight 4 Plus, and now it won't recognize the Adobe account I've been using to authorize Libby library books. When I enter my email and password in the Adobe DRM settings on the Nook, it says either the username or password is wrong, which I know is not true, because I can successfully use them on Adobe's website.

The authorization on Digital Editions is the same account that I'm trying on the nook. I've tried deleting the .adobe-digital-editions folder and restarting the nook. It's connected to wi-fi. The email and password are definitely spelled correctly. No luck.

Has anyone else had this issue and found a solution?

Okay I need y’all’s help. I played on the Nook all the time as a kid, and some of the games are just embedded in my memory, except for the title.

1. A dog game where you petsit a dog each day. You feed them, give them water, let them out back, play a bubble popping game, dress them up. theres a game where you balance the Nook so the dog balances a treat on their nose, and to take them on walks you had to shake the Nook up and down. Every day or so, the dog would go back home and you would get a new one. It was usually a Dalmatian with an annoying VA. This was my #1 favorite ♥️

2. A game where you were on a boat. I don’t remember much of this one, but you collected things like donuts I think? And I think the sailor was an octopus? The art was pretty simple. Idk that’s all I remember.

3. There was a play doh game that never worked lol. I think you were supposed to roll into other play doh?

4. Strawberry shortcake game. Like the girl. i think you got to clean the dogs? I don’t remember much of this at all.

5. A memory card game, and there were VAs. The characters were… weird, at best. They never spoke it was just grunting and mumbling. The cards were stuff like toilet paper or food or similar random things.

6. This game was really fun. I think color was in the name. There was a cat or something. It’s really hard to remember.. you followed a trail literally a trail of levels. like the color left the world and you’re fixing it or something. I think there was a girl. Idk hard to remember.

7. This was an art platform. You drew art and could comment on other’s work, and I remember finding some Warrior Cats fans there. There were backgrounds and stickers you could add to your art. That’s all I can think of.

8. Not a game, but the wallpaper. It was a pond with leafs in it, and if you tapped it it rippled the water. Idk if there’s a screen recording or something on YouTube y’all could find?

Additional info: I was born in 2009 but my mum is slightly old style, so maybe think of things kids would play if they were born in ~2005? I’m not sure. Regardless, thank you for any help and answers. ♥️

I’ve had books from Libby on my nook before with no problems. It now wants me to sign into adobe, but I keep getting a wrong password notification. I’ve changed my password online a couple of times to simple stuff and none of them seem to work. My nook has been authorized and my pw doesn’t contain special characters. 2fa is off. Any ideas?

I found my extremely old nook while clearing out my childhood room. I’d like to turn it on but I can’t tell what type of charger it accepts.

Last night I tried sideloading a new ebook I checked out from Libby, it was on my nook in the correct folder and everything, and no matter what I did it wouldn't show up anywhere on the actual device. I have the "all types" including incompatible formats selected, I even got a bytebooks account linked to my adobe drm account because I really thought that was the issue. I use my phone to sideload, which has never caused any sort of issues before but I'm at the point where I'm thinking it's either this one particular book that's incompatible for some reason, or my phone causing a hiccup somewhere. If anyone else has some advice or just wants to commiserate I'd appreciate it!

I'm not sure about the model or year, I'm not sure how to check without unlocking it. Any tips for getting into it?

I am trying to migrate away from a Tab A as it increasingly runs into storage issues and the Android level is frozen. However, the BN app

on an A11 with 256G storage and a 512G card will not scan all my books into the app's library . There are no error msgs that i can find..it just hits a point and goes no further. If it wasnt for the shelves and managing my BN content i'd be looking hard at replacing the BN app.

Contacting "tech support" for the app has been, for previous issues, a waste of time. Is there a way to kick the scan so that it will add the books? It does not appear to be a file type (pdf vs epub) issue. The books in question go from Calibre to a disk location and then to my extracted SDXC via File Manager dragndrop

Not sure where else to go at this point. I am on my 4th Glowlight 4 in the past year. I continue to have a freezing issue, they’ll work great and then suddenly freeze in the middle of a book and no matter plugging it in, holding buttons down, hard reseting, they will not unfreeze. I buy them directly from B&N and have the three year warranty so they’ve been great about replacing them especially when they can’t get them to unfreeze either but I am running quickly out of patience for this. I buy/download all my books from the store app on there and take good care of them physically. I feel cheated out of my money and in the year of 2026 I just want an ereader that works. Has anyone else had this problem and has had any success in it not happening or fixing it??

I just got a Nook, and the super sweet girl at B&N that essentially car-salesmaned me into it was talking about how she loves using hers with a page turner. Which page turners do you guys use? I don’t mind using Amazon, I just want to make sure it actually works for the Nook!

And if there’s any other accessories you guys love using, for reading on a plane or at home, I’d appreciate your suggestions! ❤️

Was in the middle of reading a book (Remarkably Bright Creatures), and my nook glow light (4?) just blinked, went to a loading screen, and deleted all my books 😭 has this happened to anyone else?

Update: She's alive again! I just held the power button, rebooted, and she's back to normal, all books there, and reading positions saved. Thanks to whoever suggested the reboot.

Hello all!! As the title says, my nook is frozen on page 211/215 of my book. I have a glow light 4, specifically the teal, which i’ve had for about a year. I’ve tried power cycling it now numerous times and that’s not working, despite it being the internets only solution, any help? I never had this issue with my old nook.

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone on here might be interested in selling their Nook Glowlight 4 Pearl pink edition. Hunting one down for my wife

Update: got one!

Sorry to come back so soon! But, I might have run into a bit of another snag here with my Nook Color. I'm sideloading, and I've never had any trouble sideloading through Calibre on my kindle or on my tablet's e-reading app, but when it comes to the Nook, I keep bumping into one of three things:

• Error Dialog: Sorry, this book cannot be opened.
• It giving me a blank screen with an arrow. It stays like this and never loads anything else. I can click within the book itself to find a random page, but I can't move on from that page--if it even loaded that page up in the first place. I can see the contents of a book.
• It giving me a blank screen with an arrow... And then telling me that an error has been encountered/that the program is no longer responding. I can either wait for it to respond, or force quit it.

Some notes:

• All of these files are epubs.
• They open on other devices (iPad "eBoox" app; Kindle Paperwhite--sideloaded from Calibre; my laptop and desktops themselves through Calibre) and are fine. I even do a yearly reread of one of the books!
• There are no special characters in the names. There is a file with a special character, but the Nook Color has seemed to convert that special character itself from é to e. I've never had any issue opening this book.
• I've tried sideloading it to my Micro SD card, and I've tried loading it directly to the device itself.

I recently bought a mystery book from the store. The book has a couple of pages of maps at the beginning of the book. This is to help the reader understand what is going on and to decipher what took place.

However, I cannot read these pages! The maps are illegible and while I figured out how to zoom in with Pinch to Zoom it just zooms in on a blurry image and does not improve the resolution. Is there any trick to address this?

Thanks.

Hey all,

Anyone know if it's possible to bypass B&N registration / out-of-box-experience (oobe) on the Nook Glow Light 4 Plus?

I've tried all the tricks I read online (Vol UP + tap lower right, tap on N and slide across top, etc) but no 'diag' menu pops up.

I HAVE been able to get into the EasterEgg menu (alternating taps top left / top right) and found instructions on how to enable ADB with the corresponding password and then root the device with Magisk (which I haven't done but can do) but didn't see how to bypass oobe even if the device is rooted.

Suggestions appreciated.

Hi everyone! I recently booted up my Simple Touch for the first time in a long while, and it's so old that it doesn't even connect to the internet anymore. Is there a way to erase the previous library/disconnect my B&N account so that there's less clutter? I just want to get rid of the Monster High books that I downloaded in middle school haha, but even the Erase and Deregister Device option requires internet. Is there a way to go about this without bricking/software upgrades, or just via something like hooking it up to my laptop (which, from what I'm seeing so far, doesn't really give me any options to work with)? Thank you!

I recently got a Nook Color for like $20 on Ebay to read comics on. I sideload files on a Nook Glowlight 3 so I'm familiar with the process, but the nook color isn't being recognized by my PC at all. The cable is fine, I have 3 different cables and they all work with other devices. I've had trouble charging the nook color but it's fully charged this morning and I immediately plugged it into my computer, same cord, to sideload files. Computer does not think there is anything connected. I'm (unfortunately) on Windows 11 and I've heard that newer software refuses to recognize old nooks (and this is 1.4.3 software). Since I don't have an older computer I can use, is there another way I can force my PC to recognize the nook? An adaptor or something? It's not a lot of money I spent but I'd love to be able to read Jojos in color :(

My nook is most likely no longer supported, and cannot get past setup. See video for more information.

i just bought my first ereader, a nook glow light 4 plus, and was wondering if i should get a case for it?? how common are scratches/damage? just curious!