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Heh beat me to it. I was going to post this last night when I read it, but fell asleep. Ah well. Anyway I think it is good to see, *if* they learn from their mistakes. So the Nook is not a dead platform yet.

I agree about the problems with the website. Back when they did a revamp...hmm in 2012 I think, or was it 2011, not sure, the site went from speedy, handy, efficient to sloth slow sludge. Eventually it was improved with a few updates to various browsers, but NOT by anything B&N did. I mentioned this to B&N several times, to no avail. Why in the world they thought this was better is beyond me.

I like websites with speed not with slow glint and flash. That is one of the problems these days. Many sites take a while to load and flip all over the place when you try to scroll due to the way they are designed. Sure they look fancy, but if it takes you 3x to get where you want, is it really better? No. But I realize that looks sell, well that is until you try to USE the site on a regular basis lol. Facebook, Google+ are two that come to mind. By contrast Twitter I never have a problem with.

B&N's site is similar to Facebook and takes a while to get where you are going. I don't generally have problems downloading books from the sites, but then I am not trying to download 1,000 books in one shot either. When I got in on the Analog deal this past December with a year of back issues free, the list of the 20 issues came in no problem. But of course they didn't download then, I had to click each one to download (On both my Nook Tablet and Nook Classic). But that only took a couple of minutes to get them all. However if you had 500 or 1000 books, yes that is going to take a bit. But I think that will be the same with any retailer currently (Kindle, Kobo etc). The book downloads automatically if you just bought it within the past few days and it is less then say 5. Anything over that you get the list and have to download them to the device by clicking/tapping on them (or bringing up the info and clicking download)

Anyway I do hope the B&N site revamp actually improves the situation. I have tried to tell them for years what the problems were (as we all have) perhaps they are finally listening. If they are, perhaps there is a chance. But we will just have to see.

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I should have mentioned that I too had Fictionwise books that never transferred and I am the USA. However, I sent in my request on the very last day, and it may have been past the hour they were accepting them. Or it got lost in the shuffle. Didn't matter to me as I already have 1000 books in my B&N account and I didn't need another 1000. I have all of the books and I can side load them with Calibre at any time or directly (in fact many of them I have). The one great thing about Fictionwise (although there were many), was the ability to bulk download your books. Sure they didn't have devices that synced with cloud storage, but it was fast and flexible. They even gave out spread sheet files (csv) to help you keep track of your library. As far as I know, it was unique in the industry. Too bad the rest of the retailers won't allow the same features. Or at least the bulk download.