I'm Soooo Techhie (or how I finally got it right!)

I am declaring myself a true techhie now. I mean, I really think I deserve to call myself that because, come on, I've FINALLY, after almost a year, I have finally learned to sync my Nook (make that my COLOR Nook) with the Public Library System.

You know what that means, right? Ahem, it means that now I don't have to drive down to the public library to check books out. Let's say the weather is bad, and since I live out of town, if I wanted to go browsing the shelves of the library, I'd have to throw on one of my coats ..if it's winter (I'm a clothes horse, I have several to choose from); I'd have to start up the car and drive out in the cold and into the city, park, pay the parking meter before I'd even get to the book shelves to see what books might be available.

Soooo, now I can just log into the library website, see what's available in e-books (that means electronic books, heehee); and if one catches my interest I can electronically check one out, connect my Nook to the computer, and viola' it goes into my Nook (my COLOR Nook).

It took me a long time to figure out how to do this. I even had to take the "Learn How to Check Out Books Electronically" class that they offered at the Library. Even after the class I couldn't get it to work because I was working and I was always in a hurry and didn't want to devote the time it took to figure it all out. Since I've retired, I've taken that little class (again), and finally took the time to think it all through so that I was able to make them, the Nook and the Library, "like" each other. Soooo, yes, now they REALLY like each other and I can check books out at whim.

Just the other day one of my Facebook friends asked me if I had a Nook so that we could be " Nook friends." This opens another whole door of books. Any books that she or I have read, and bought and that we have stored on our Nooks can be shared with her or other Nook friends. SMILE!  I like my little color Nook, it even lets me read my e-mail and browse the internet, and it has a place for an SD card!

I'm feeling pretty confident now...even though my 12-year-old granddaughter had synced her Nook to the Library about a year prior to my having done it! (Yeah, I know...but she went through it so fast that I just pretended to know what she was talking about. You didn't know that I was an actress too?!?)