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Originally Posted by sbtx99
I don't know how it works on the actual Nook devices, but the Nook apps for mobile devices have been amongst the most inflexible that I've used.
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According to someone on the Nook forum, it
still works the way it should on the actual devices. And for the B&N Reader app for Mac, for which I'd be surprised to see an update for any time soon.
Frankly, you are far more patient than I would have been in the same situation. The second time it asked me to to re-validate and re-download anything, I'd have ditched the app and just started merrily stripping all that pesky DRM away.
Which I do anyway since I'm a Kindle user. But I'd have done it with extra
feeling, y'know?
It seems that B&N is developing a decided pattern of taking something that was working pretty well for the people who used it, and making it infinitely less useful and crappier in the bargain.
Poor Fictionwise. Doomed for nothing, since B&N could have just licensed ADE if they were going to play this way.
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Originally Posted by sbtx99
It's only been a problem for me because I don't like using my actual credit card number online and my credit card company lets me assign temporary account numbers for online purchases.
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I use almost exclusively for my Fictionwise and B&N "purchases" an old credit card which I otherwise don't touch, which also happens to have an easily remembered number (darn second-class computing citizen unupdated B&N Reader for Mac app makes me re-enter the unlock code for the first book of every reading session since last shutdown).
Maybe you could get your CC company to send you an auxiliary card with a different number/name variation (initial or such) that you could have just for your online purchases and could shut down easily at the first sign of suspicious activity without affecting your main #.