Blog Snapshot: June 15th 2011

There’s a damn lot of interest in eBook stuff.

All but one outgoing clickthrough is for Nook Touch rooting too.

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Nook Touch Rooting: June 15th News

Note: All Nook Touch rooting news of this day will be consolidated into this single post, with any updates at the end.

We’re all still waiting for a rooting method as easy as that for the NookColor. No developments on that yet.

XDA Developers forum:

This post confirms that the eInk refresh buffering does not carry over to other reading apps installed via rooting:

Yeah, I have to tap the screen in order to turn pages in Aldiko. It seems as the flashing effect you get every 5th page with the native Nook app occurs every page turn with Aldiko. Sort of a weird effect, but I can probably get used to it.

It’s odd, but many people who were otherwise not interested in eInk devices are buying a Nook Touch because it can be rooted. Their obvious surprise at how eInk functions reveals this.

This post recommends Button Savior over Softkeys and provides a link to it.

This post points to the XDA Developers forum thread about NookColor Tools.