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This page is meant to be a wishlist of items we'd like to see on the nook.

Listing on this page does not mean it will happen, merely that someone brainstormed it as an idea.

Add/Link to existing projects (if any), and help improve this page.

Apps

• Offline Wikipedia browser on the nook.
• Twitter
• Email
• IRC
• Instant Messaging (AIM/Jabber/Facebook/Msn)
• Chess/Go/Sudoku/ other board games'
• Connectbot (SSH/terminal)
• Twisty (Interactive Fiction "Infocom" Player - aka Z-Machine)
• Note taking (Remember the Milk integration?)
• Dictionary and Thesaurus application
• PDF Markup app (eInk shows the whole page, touchscreen works like Skim.app)
• Print Nook eink screen and kept as jpeg or gif in some specific library
• Extend file type support with a built-in converter or client for online converter
• GTD Calendar and TODO as ScreenSaver
• NewsRob or GoogleReader client that help in offline reading of webpages/feeds

Existing Android Apps that works on the Nook?

Libraries

• Bottoms: How to access them? what are their opcodes?
• GUI Library: File selector that works under the Nook GUI
• My Book: press&hold up/down arrow on the LCD for 2 seconds, for jumping to first/last book on the eink display (this is standard feature of stock My Library)

Reader/Book improvements/fixes

• fix PDF viewing to allow a font change to persist between page turns
• PDF Zoom ability
• PDF Font de-smooth functions (to view small fonts more clearly)
• New format support
  • Mobipocket support? (.prc/mobi - buy at Amazon, unlock and read on nook?)
  • .txt
  • .rtf
  • .html

** .fb2 (for example by adapted FBReader, it works with Android)

• • .chm
• mp3 playlists
• Support for characters from non-western alphabets (eBooks).

* Adjust date/time (This can be done with system settings)

• Alarm
• Management widget. (weather,...)
• Ability to add books to B&N Library instead of My Documents (for full cover browsing)
• Folders
• Readernaut integration (update progress, post notes)
• Ability to add other fonts.
• Connecting to Ad hoc Networks (so we can develop without the need for a wifi router)
• Ability to automatically sync with a Calibre server at a certain time in Trook
• Text-to-Speech

* Add Chinese fonts(See Asia Lanuage Support http://nookdevs.com/Font_Changes)

• Add parameter for nook to not activate touchscreen by default after returning from safe-mode, only after manual taping touch panel should be activated (that could save battery, if you want only to continue reading)

Connectivity

Formerly wishlisted (now exist and work at least a bit)

• Trook
  • Setting to allow use of non-ATT GPRS/EDGE/3G outside USA
  • Allows full cover browsing of My Documents, including folders
    • Folders
    • thumbnails on user supplied content
  • Calibre library support - ala Stanza web interface
  • RSS feeds
    • install new apps
    • download new books
• Browser - Top men are working on it. Top men.
  • Also a new B&N nook browser as well.
• Pandora
• Python & Java
• Customize forward & backward buttons
• Additional WiFi security options (EAP extensions)
• ADB over USB
• Chess/Sudoku
• Twook - Twitter client