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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: .