Features

Reading is more amazing than ever on our stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen. NOOK Color uses best-in-class technology to display more than 16 million colors and an extra wide viewing angle for personal or shared reading.

NOOK Color offers the largest selection of titles with new ones arriving every day. 1 million FREE books are ready for instant download and you can sample all books FREE before you buy. Most titles are $9.99 or less and are ready to read in just seconds.

Get all your newsstand favorites in rich, full color. From Us Weekly and Elle to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal - NOOK Newsstand delivers your morning paper and latest magazines right to your NOOK Color, ready to read in an amazing new way.

Shop Popular Apps 

Popular apps keep the whole family entertained and engaged. Play games like Angry Birds and Uno, stay up-to-date with Pulse News, learn a language with Lonely Planet, try recipes with Epicurious. Plus lots of fun apps just for kids, including Drawing Pad and ‘Cat In the Hat.’

Stories Come to Life 

NOOK Kids™ state-of-the-art picture book reading experience with the exclusive Read to Me™ feature is even more engaging. Now Read and Play™ books let your child interact with characters and enjoy activities built right in to their favorite stories.

Full Featured Email 

Get your email on the go! Check and send email anytime you’re connected with built-in Wi-Fi ®. Use the free full-featured email app to get all your POP and IMAP webmail (i.e., Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL) in one in-box. You can also get corporate email from any Microsoft Exchange Server®, find out how at www.nookcolor.com/email

Enhanced Web Experience 

NOOK Color brings you even more of the web with an enhanced mobile experience. Watch videos on many of your favorite websites like YouTube® and enjoy some of the most interactive and animated content that the Internet has to offer now with the newly integrated Adobe® Flash® Player**.

Share with NOOK Friends™ 

Create your own group of NOOK Friends ™(beta) to share recommendations, discover new titles—even swap books with LendMe™. Stay connected with your Friend’s Activity feed to see their latest ratings and reviews, shared quotes and reading updates.

Our knowledgeable booksellers will provide recommendations for you based on books and authors you like, through our exclusive NOOK Book Personal Shopping™, so you'll always have a great book to enjoy.

Enhanced NOOK Books™ 

Reading & learning is even more fun when you can watch that appetizing recipe being made step-by-step or learn how to play guitar with embedded video and audio right from the pages of popular cookbooks, music instruction, photography and travel books.

NOOK Color is really all about you. From selecting the unique look of your home page, to personalizing your shelves or choosing just the right font, NOOK Color lets you create a reading experience that you can truly call your own.

Listen to music while you read. Load your own MP3s and play on the built-in music player or enjoy tunes from Pandora® internet radio. Other built in apps: Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku and Chess.

When you take a break from your book, a virtual bookmark remembers just where you left off, so you can dive right back into your reading on any computer or mobile device with our FREE NOOK Reading Apps, including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod Touch®, Android™ smartphones, and Windows-based PCs, notebooks, or laptops.

Visit any Barnes & Noble store with your NOOK in hand and enjoy an array of special offers through our More In Store™ program. Get FREE Wi-Fi® while you're there and read entire NOOK Books for FREE for up to one hour per day with our innovative Read In Store™ feature.

Our built-in Wi-Fi® connection lets you get more from your reading. Look up concepts on Wikipedia and Google® right from the page as you're reading or use our built-in Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary to look up a word. Connect wirelessly to Wi-Fi® to surf the web. Jump quickly to the website you need then go right back to enjoying your book.

With 8GB of space* and expandable memory, your library has virtually no limits. Hold thousands of books, magazines, newspapers, kids' books, songs and photos. And our Lifetime Library™ makes sure all your reading is safely stored so you always have access to it, anytime, anywhere.

A full range of high-quality accessories to enhance your NOOK Color experience. Covers, crafted of materials from European bookcloth to full-grain Italian leather are designed to protect your NOOK Color while making it easy to access. Essentials like screen protectors, car adapters, headphones and power kits help you enjoy NOOK Color's outstanding features.