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Originally Posted by citac
I was planning to use NookStudy mostly with texts and articles collected for my postgrad; I will think about alternatives if I find a book they have I'd like to buy. I think I will go to their forum and ask a question about international users because I'm fed up with the current treatment.
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Best of luck with that. It's absurd that they not only require school/state info, but also limit it to US selections when technically parts of the NookStudy textbook program are supposed to be available to Canada, too.
It really should be an optional thing, and they should let you use the program with only a B&N account (for backing up the notes) and ADE (for authorizing any textbooks). I'm sure there are plenty of home schoolers/self-study people even in the States alone who'd find it useful and would rather not be forced to give false information about their educational institution, or lack thereof.
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
That's like when I call or email someplace for info on a product and and they try to to gather personal information from me then act surprised when I tell them they do not need it (are people really such sheep they give in to those demands?).
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I personally just plain lie when asked for irrelevant personal info. I'm okay with giving it at the point where I actually use the service/product and it actually has some bearing on the use of said service/product, but not before, and not if it's completely superfluous to its use.
Which is how I end up having the same birthday as a number of celebrities and a snail mail address in R'lyeh.
Incidentally, it turns out that the 12 extra free B&N Classics (and I will reiterate that these are nice editions with bonus notes and essays done by university professors and the like, since someone always says you should just head straight to Gutenberg, do not pass Go, when the subject comes up) included in the NookStudy Free College Kick-Start Kit are:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, Beowulf, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Inferno, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Plato's The Republic, The Scarlet Letter, T.S. Eliot's Waste Land & Other Poems, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence, and The Canterbury Tales.
They're supposed to send you the link to pick up the freebies in an email after you install and register NookStudy, but if they don't, it can be found very easily on the B&N NookStudy forum.
And they released a new build of NookStudy (for Mac users, at least) which is supposed to fix some of the login issue problems. I couldn't tell you if it worked or not, since that's not a problem I had with it in the first place.