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Old 11-20-2011, 01:08 AM   #1
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Sideloaded books and syncing
Looking to buy a Nook Touch. Can anyone tell me if sideloaded (i.e. non-B&N) purchased epub books (without DRM) will sync between the Nook app on an ipad, the Nook Touch, and the Windows PC version of the Nook Reader?

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Old 11-20-2011, 06:29 AM   #2
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Looking to buy a Nook Touch. Can anyone tell me if sideloaded (i.e. non-B&N) purchased epub books (without DRM) will sync between the Nook app on an ipad, the Nook Touch, and the Windows PC version of the Nook Reader?

Many thnks,

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Syncing is only for B&N books (as the information is stored on B&N's servers). I believe the same is true for Kindle (only for Amazon's books).
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Old 11-21-2011, 01:45 AM   #3
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Syncing is only for B&N books (as the information is stored on B&N's servers). I believe the same is true for Kindle (only for Amazon's books).
You are correct Geertm. Only B&N or Amazon store purchases sync up. Anything side-loaded is not.

I have a ton of side-loaded books on my Nook Touch, and its not a huge deal. What I personally hope for is that we can sync our side-loaded materials (books, music, notes, web shares) with the cloud storage offered to the Tablet users.

Just a small thought.
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You are correct Geertm. Only B&N or Amazon store purchases sync up. Anything side-loaded is not.

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Just FYI - I noticed the other day that my two nooks (tablet and STR) attempted to sync one of my sideloaded books. So maybe B&N is making some changes.

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Old 12-08-2011, 07:31 AM   #5
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Just FYI - I noticed the other day that my two nooks (tablet and STR) attempted to sync one of my sideloaded books. So maybe B&N is making some changes.

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Interesting. Please explain how you saw the "attempt", and did it work?
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This may also be a bug - what is happening is my nook is telling me that I've read to a different page number on another device, and it offers to go to that page. However it believes I am always on page 1 on my Nook STR, which is where I'm doing most of my reading.

I've been traveling, and will try to do a more controlled study now that I have both devices with me.

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Old 12-09-2011, 08:02 PM   #7
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I had that happen with a sideloaded book as well. But when I'd go to the home screen it said I was on page "1 of 1." This is a book with 700 pages. When I'd reopen it, I'd get that "sync to furthest location?" dialogue that would take me from page 1 to wherever I'd been reading it before.

But I did an epub-to-epub conversion in Calibre and it fixed that.
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I was wrong about the syncing...
What you just described is the phenomena I am observing. Thanks a bunch for the tip - it never would have occurred to me!

So no syncing of sideloaded books still...

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