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Originally Posted by geertm
As an aside. I do not understand why people feel they should keep hundreds or even thousands of non-B&N books on their Nook. All my non-B&N books (more than 2000) are archived on my PC. I keep some 10 to 20 non-B&N books on my Nook as the next books that I want to read.
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I can understand how your system works for you, but I, as well as a few others, read a lot of books at the same time. In my case about 15. If you were right for everyone, then there would be no reason for any eBook manufacturer to offer any storage capacity at all. Just add a book or two at a time from your computer. Think how MP3 players would have fared if they said you need to add songs from your computer every time you want to change an album. Or how would you like it if you needed to get out your collection of CDs every time you wanted to view a picture. Taking it to the ridiculous, just unload a program when you want to use a different one and add the new software from the discs...every time. I owned one of those computers back in the early 80s.
Anyhow, eBooks belong on my eReader. I have been accumulating for 10+ years and I want my collection where it belongs, just the same as I keep my books in bookcases, not in boxes in the garage where I can go dig them out when I want them. You are right for you, but not for most of us. And B&N crippling something to make it frustrating to read books you don't buy from them is a very backwards business plan. Let's see, annoy the customer to the point that he will spend more money with us. If I taught that concept in business school to my students, they would seriously think of calling the guys in the white coats.