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I rarely shop at B&N after going through a ridiculously long wait for them to refund my money on a defective ebook. However, just this week I bought a book in order to use up the credit that had been sitting on my account. Today I saw this thread mentioned on Mobileread's FB. I immediately tried to get my latest purchase d/l into Nook for PC, as I have with other BN purchases in the past. No dice. Got hold of a polite CS guy at BN, who had me delete my original install of the Nook for PC application and reinstall from a link to a version that hasn't been updated since Nov 2011. Still wasn't able to d/l the latest book. I have it on my phone via the Nook app, and on my Kindle Fire (also via the Nook app), but it ticks me off that I'm not able to pull an Epub copy to add to my Calibre backup library. Interestingly, the CS guy had to go check with someone else to learn that d/l to PC is no longer allowed by BN. So they're not even telling their own people about this s**t!
This thread has been very helpful in offering alternative ideas to get my books into Calibre, so thank you very much to everyone who has posted suggestions. I'm so furious at BN right now, I can't see straight. It's like they are DETERMINED to drive themselves out of business! They just keep making one bone-headed decision after another. No doubt Amazon is cheering and lighting cigars with $100 bills.
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