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Originally Posted by bigtext
My experience is limited, but I've gotten a few books of the B&N website (mostly Free Friday items). I purchase the item (even if it $0) and it appears in the "My Nook" web page.
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Yep.
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Originally Posted by bigtext
From there I can click on Download and my browser gives me an option if I want to save to a location or open with an application. I choose to have it open in Calibre.
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Didn't realize you could do that.
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Originally Posted by bigtext
At that point I can side-load the book onto the drive that appears when you plug the Nook in or via SD card. When I'm done with the book I can delete it from the location I side loaded it too.
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But there's no way to delete it from the device from within the device interface. And for books you bought through the device, that it downloads automatically, you can't delete it from your computer, either. You can
only delete it from the device by doing so on their web page.
(I've heard rumors that the latest updated on the color, which I have, addresses this, but I don't have the update yet so I'm not sure.)
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Originally Posted by bigtext
Now part of the reason this works for me is I use my Nook unplugged. The wireless is never on. One time I did turn my wireless on it did sync everything in the My Nook page onto the device. I don't like having a ton of books on the device that I'm not reading so I ended up having to go back to the My Nook web page and choosing archive. That causes it to disappear from the device and I still have it in the "cloud". Not that it matters since I now have the file saved on my PC anyway. In any case, I don't turn wireless on anymore. It's more convenient to shop via PC anyway and I don't have to worry about Big Brother, so to speak, deleting or messing with setting on my device.
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At the risk of sounding snarky (and I don't intend to), to each his own. I normally buy through the device, mostly because I'm too damned lazy to get off the couch sometimes, to go to the computer. But I do always download everything to archive it. Not being a very trusting soul.