I’ve been reading ebooks using a Barnes & Noble Nook since they introduced their first Nook ebook reader. This is my current Nook device. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7 inch Nook. I don’t know what happened, but suddenly the book covers went missing. I searched Google for the help and it brought me to the Barnes & Noble help page that said to reboot. Well, obviously that was the first thing I did, and I had probably rebooted 6 times with no change.

Then I noticed they have a list of retired Nook devices. I was like yikes! Is my Nook retired? Thankfully, not yet, but it is no longer receiving updates because it is from 2018 I believe. They currently have a new one that’s a Lenovo 9 inch tablet.

So one of the options was to reset to factory settings, and I was thinking if I did that, I would have the old 2018 operating system, because remember, no updates. So I can reset it, but I won’t benefit from whatever updates they’ve introduced to the Nook app.

That’s not a huge issue because all I’m doing with my Nook is reading ebooks. I don’t highlight anything or do annotations or whatever. So all I want to do is read my ebooks, and the 2018 version still has that ability. No problem.

So my Samsung Galaxy Tab A Nook is back to the way it was 6 years ago, and that’s perfectly fine with me. I need to be able to see what the book cover looks like for me to be able to choose the next ebook I want to read. I don’t need anything fancy, after all, if you open an actual book, you have what you have and that’s ok. Books don’t offer updates.

Resetting the Nook back to the factory settings will actually help make the device faster anyway. It was starting to get slow, so I’d open an ebook and it didn’t open as fast as it should. And whenever I have to reboot it, it will reboot faster.

Yes, I will eventually buy the new Lenovo tablet because I do have a Lenovo laptop and a Lenovo desktop computer, so might as well make it a Lenovo 3 way, right? Eventually. Right now things are difficult for me ever since someone hacked into my Spectrum Mobile account and bought an iPhone which caused Spectrum to charge me the full price for my current cell phone, which was $888 which put my checking account $350 in the negative. I had to transfer money from my credit card to my checking account and now I have debt that will take me a while to pay off.

If this Samsung Galaxy Nook stops working, or becomes discontinued and they block me from reading my ebooks, then I’ll buy a new one. Until then… it is what it is.