great nook apps for libraries

Great Nook Apps

for LibrariesBecky Corning, PresenterColorado Association of Libraries

Conference

Technology Petting Zoo

Loveland, Colorado

October 2011

Apps for:• Books and reading• Office/Productivity• Children/Early Literacy• Just for Fun

Apps related to books and reading

Goodreads

• Free• Social network for

readers• Rate books, mark

books you have read or want to read, see others’ reviews

• More than 140 million books

Authors

• Free• See tweets by authors• YouTube content

(Video interviews)

Office/Productivity

QuickOffice Pro

• $14.99• Create and edit

Microsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations

(QuickOffice screen shots)

Pulse

• Free• News feeds, feeds

from social networks• Loads news stories

while online, so you can read while offline

• Quickly share news stories to Facebook, Twitter

Children/Early Literacy

Going to Bed Book

• $3.99• “Read it myself” or

“The big guy reads it”• Interactive features

such as a bathtub that fogs up the screen, clothes popping out of drawers, boat rocking as you move the Nook

(video)

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Shape Builder

• $1.99• Move shapes and they

snap into place• Letters, numbers,

animals, fruits, vegetables, music instruments, sound effects

• Letters spoken

(ShapeBuilder screen shots)

TikaTok

• Free to make and read books, charges if you want to download your book or have it printed

• Write your own content, use clip art or art/photos from your Nook

Just for Fun

Angry Birds

• $2.99• Addictive• Use Mighty Eagle

while in the Barnes & Noble store to crash through to new levels

Epicurious

• $4.99• Recipes, categories,

search by ingredient