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So I decided to get a Nook Simple Touch for reading my books on. I figure I'll free up the space on my iPad so I can have my comics on there with the games and other apps, while the Nook will be strictly for my .Epubs.

Currently I have about 800MB worth of books, but considering I'm sure I'll expand my collection it's nice to have that expandable slot up to 32GB!

Anyone else in here have a Nook Simple Touch? Has anyone rooted theirs? What are some benefits of rooting it?

I saw an article where a guy rooted his and was able to play Playstation games on there.

I imagine that unless it was a game that didn't require a high framerate per second, it wouldn't really be worth bothering. Although some of the more simple PS games, maybe.

Doubtful I'd do that, but I'm interested in seeing what benefits I can get by rooting it.

I've not owned a Simple Touch, but I've had other reader/tablets/etc., and tried the rooting process on most of them. I found that I, personally, did not really gain any benefits from rooting my devices as I use them mainly as they were intended.

If you really want to enable some basic tablet-like functionality, then rooting would be a way to go. However, I have seen an e-Ink display running the basic Android OS screen and it is not something you really want to spend any amount of time on. The refresh on a page "flip" is one thing, attempting to run other apps on it is something else.

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I've not owned a Simple Touch, but I've had other reader/tablets/etc., and tried the rooting process on most of them. I found that I, personally, did not really gain any benefits from rooting my devices as I use them mainly as they were intended.

If you really want to enable some basic tablet-like functionality, then rooting would be a way to go. However, I have seen an e-Ink display running the basic Android OS screen and it is not something you really want to spend any amount of time on. The refresh on a page "flip" is one thing, attempting to run other apps on it is something else.

Thanks for the response!

I jailbroke my iPad1 because Apple no longer supports it. And there are a few things that I could never do without now, that I couldn't do without jailbreaking it. Little tweaks.

1. app that remembers the password, so I never have to keep typing in my long ass apple password. If it gets stolen, I'm screwed, but yeah. lol.

2. Infinifolders/infinidock that allows me to have as many apps inside a folder as I want, and lets me have as many apps in my dock as I want. My dock scrolls over as I have a lot of apps there.

Also there's one where I can reset my achievements in games and reacquire them. That's kinda cool.

I jailbroke my iPad1 because Apple no longer supports it.

Yeah, my daughter has an iPad 1st Gen and pretty much can no longer load anything new on it.

What are some benefits of doing a jailbreak on an iPad 1? I've never considered it because I didn't want to do anything to mess up her stuff (I really have no qualms experimenting on my own stuff). If it can bring more usefulness to an outdated piece of tech, I might try it.

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I jailbroke my iPad1 because Apple no longer supports it.

Yeah, my daughter has an iPad 1st Gen and pretty much can no longer load anything new on it.

What are some benefits of doing a jailbreak on an iPad 1? I've never considered it because I didn't want to do anything to mess up her stuff (I really have no qualms experimenting on my own stuff). If it can bring more usefulness to an outdated piece of tech, I might try it.

Well, as I said, for ME, it was mainly little tweaks that I enjoy. Here are some links explaining other things you can do.

"Hello Ios6, Goodbye iPad 1: Inject New Life by Jailbreaking It"

www.zdnet.com/hello-ios-6-goodbye-ipad- ... 000004072/

"Top 5 Reasons to Jailbreak iPad 1 or 2"

http://www.imore.com/top-5-reasons-jailbreak-ipad-ipad-2

I also have a Nook simple touch, which I get a lot of enjoyment from.
I currently almost 7000 books on my 16G stick(still only one quarter full!). The downside is the Nook doesn't seem to have been designed with holding that many titles in mind.
If i want to look through my library I have to scroll, five books at a time alphabetically. THIS TAKES ABSOLUTELY AGES.
I was wondering if there are more intelligent android ereader apps out there that would make rooting worth the risk.

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I also have a Nook simple touch, which I get a lot of enjoyment from.
I currently almost 7000 books on my 16G stick(still only one quarter full!). The downside is the Nook doesn't seem to have been designed with holding that many titles in mind.
If i want to look through my library I have to scroll, five books at a time alphabetically. THIS TAKES ABSOLUTELY AGES.
I was wondering if there are more intelligent android ereader apps out there that would make rooting worth the risk.

Why not use the search function? That's what I do.

I was disappointed that the Nook Simple Touch only comes with 240MB of usable space for sideloading non-B&N items. That's bullshit and if I had known that I would not have bought it.

Not a fan of the flickering screen when changing pages, either, but perhaps that's an unavoidable result of the e-ink display.

I also have a Nook simple touch, which I get a lot of enjoyment from.
I currently almost 7000 books on my 16G stick(still only one quarter full!). The downside is the Nook doesn't seem to have been designed with holding that many titles in mind.
If i want to look through my library I have to scroll, five books at a time alphabetically. THIS TAKES ABSOLUTELY AGES.
I was wondering if there are more intelligent android ereader apps out there that would make rooting worth the risk.

Why not use the search function? That's what I do.

I was disappointed that the Nook Simple Touch only comes with 240MB of usable space for sideloading non-B&N items. That's bullshit and if I had known that I would not have bought it.

Not a fan of the flickering screen when changing pages, either, but perhaps that's an unavoidable result of the e-ink display.

Yes well, I do use the search function because we don't have any choice. Regarding the onboard storage I think the pitiful amount provided is more than made for by the ability to insert an sd card.