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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)
QuickTime™ and aH.263 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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