[Ken Irving]

This morning the Shop button on my Nook Classic would not take me to the store, but instead turned on the wireless and then booted me back to the main screen. After that I noticed that the wireless seemed to stay on extra long. I reset several times by holding down the on/off button and even removed the battery at one point, but nothing changed. So finally I went to the B&N online chat help and was told the cure would be to de-register and re-register the Nook. Knowing this would wipe out my non-B&N library, I told the helper elf to hold on a minute while I backed it up but when I came back from doing that there were panicky messages in the chat box urging me NOT to de-register. Turns out (as I kinda suspected actually) that this was a universal problem with Nook classics, apparently due to some sort of change they had made to the store software. The advice was to wait while they figured out what they had done and how to fix it - 24-48 hours supposedly. A minor loss of convenience since I have two dozen other ways of buying from them, but thought I should mention it for the benefit of anyone else experiencing this problem. Oh, and the wireless does seem to be staying on pretty steadily since I noticed this problem, so I have the Nook hitched to the charger