{"id":8857,"date":"2011-06-15T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:15:19","slug":"read-kindle-ebooks-on-your-nook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8857","title":{"rendered":"Read Kindle eBooks on your Nook!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where there&#8217;s a will, there&#8217;s a way. We&#8217;ve long grumbled about the big eBook retailer&#8217;s insistence on proprietary formats, registration, memberships, etc. that force the consumer to read their eBook purchases on specific &#8216;tethered&#8217; devices or platforms. One could buy an eBook, but had to read it where and how the retailer dictated.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this <a title=\"Read Kindle books on Nook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/gadgets\/kindle-app-works-on-rooted-nook-for-ultimate-ebook-reader-20110615\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>geek.com<\/strong><\/a> post and video shows in no uncertain terms how old that concept has suddenly become.<\/p>\n<p>Because the new <a title=\"B&amp;N Nook Simple Touch Reader Rocks!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/index.asp?PID=35699&amp;cds2Pid=35700#productimg\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Barnes and Noble E Ink Nook Simple Touch Reader<\/strong><\/a> runs on <strong>Android<\/strong>, a minor hack can root the drive, thus opening the door for you to read <strong>Amazon Kindle<\/strong> books on the device.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really quite amazing, and about time. <em>Doesn&#8217;t that also make it the first E Ink Tablet?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there&#8217;s a will, there&#8217;s a way. We&#8217;ve long grumbled about the big eBook retailer&#8217;s insistence on proprietary formats, registration, memberships, etc. that force the consumer to read their eBook purchases on specific &#8216;tethered&#8217; devices or platforms. One could buy an eBook, but had to read it where and how the retailer dictated. Well, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8857\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,15,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}