Classic Barnes and Noble reader software

[rwizard]

Well, I was curious and downloaded a free ebook from B&N and their reader software. The reader software appears to try to mimic the nook as much as possible. It connects directly to the B&N store to access your library there and will download any book you have "purchased" from them. So far I have not found any way to open other books from the B&N software (I downloaded a free EPUB book from baen.com to try to find a way to get it to work but there is no file menu and placing the book in the same directory as the other books downloaded by the software does not cause it to see the book even after a restart). But the software already handles EPUB with the B&N DRM.

I have only tried the PC version of the software.

[Ocean]

Funny you should mention that -- this just popped up in my rss reader:

Although the eReader software that the B&N eReader is based on is solid, Barnes and Noble obviously made some changes to it, both visually and functionally (did I mention the Wikipedia thing?).

Unfortunately, the bug I hit is this:

I like big books. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. Dan Simmons’ Drood and Carrion Comfort. Stephen King’s uncut version of The Stand. Things like that. And when you load one of these books into the B&N software on your iPhone, well, it has trouble. If you click the Home button on your iPhone with your big juicy book still open, the next time you open the software, it thinks for a minute or so, and then closes.

And the only way to re-open the reader software . . . is to reinstall it.

Your intrepid Gear Diary team is On the Case, trying to get hold of the appropriate people at B&N and find out what the heck is going on. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, just be cautious.

And don’t get me started on the fact that I can’t read my Fictionwise/eReader books in this app, either …

http://www.geardiary.com/2009/12/08/...phone-ereader/

[rwizard]

Interesting.

[tmgplc]

I would love an answer to this question as well since I would like to read a few Shortcovers epub titles in the BN ereader software on my Blackberry.

[Propheous]

Originally Posted by rwizard

Well, I was curious and downloaded a free ebook from B&N and their reader software. The reader software appears to try to mimic the nook as much as possible. It connects directly to the B&N store to access your library there and will download any book you have "purchased" from them. So far I have not found any way to open other books from the B&N software (I downloaded a free EPUB book from baen.com to try to find a way to get it to work but there is no file menu and placing the book in the same directory as the other books downloaded by the software does not cause it to see the book even after a restart). But the software already handles EPUB with the B&N DRM.

I have only tried the PC version of the software.

This through me off as well and when I contacted tech support nad they showed me what I had to do I smacked myself.

There is a My Stuff in your library section. When you go into there there is a button at the top of the screen that adds new material.

You can drag a book file into the software but it only allows you read it, and doesn't seem to add it to your library that way. I have made B&N aware of this bug and they will hopefully get it fixed soon.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rwizard

Well, I was curious and downloaded a free ebook from B&N and their reader software. The reader software appears to try to mimic the nook as much as possible.

So how slow is the B&N app? If it's trying to mimic the nook, then it has to be slow.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So how slow is the B&N app? If it's trying to mimic the nook, then it has to be slow.

lol, it's actually pretty quick on Snow Leopard-I like the more minimalist look it has compared to how Adobe's reader seems to take over the screen. And I also managed to open up my own stuff in it-somehow it became the default for some format.