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Nook Simple Touch with a External Keyboard

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You can plug an external USB keyboard to a Nook simple Touch and type to make your e-ink reader a tool to write documents. I really love e-ink screens as they are easy on your eyes for long writing sessions. You will need: A rooted Nook Simple Touch. An OTG cable adapter. A cheap external keyboard . ADB Command line tools from: https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads Two binary images: uImage and uRamdisk that you can download from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nook-touch/general/nook-glow-multitouch-usbhost-files-t2846867 USB Mode Utility apk from http://temblast.com/download/UsbMode-1.7a.apk How to do it Install ADB I am usign Mac here so the file I downloaded is: sdk-tools-darwin-4333796.zip Unzip the sdk tools to a folder, lets name it adb but it could be any name. In the same folder copy the two images files uImage and uRamdisk and the USB Mode apk UsbMode-1.7a.apk Connect the Nook Simple Touch to the computer and from the adb folder type: .

How to Watch TV on a Computer Screen or Monitor

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As you may already know a computer monitor does not have a TV tuner in it, just because it is merely used to display the images from a computer, and most of them do not have a sound output either. So you will need a tuner connected to an antenna to receive the local TV channels. In my case I am using the TV tuner from Orange which is an Ultra HD decoder that comes with the Internet subscription, but a simple TNT decoder will do the job and they are really cheap. As for the HDMI output from the TV tuner to the monitor I am using a cable DVD-I to HDMI because this is an old screen which have no HDMI input, but only a VGA and a DVD-I ones. If your monitor have a VGA input and a DVD-I input too, it is better to use the DVD-I input, or at least, with the cable I had before, the VGA to HDMI  did not work. Just make sure that it is full HD compatible. For the sound I had to find a more sophisticated solution because the TV tuner sound output is a RCA digital which is not compatible