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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Leaving aside the fact that only knowledgeable people know to hunt down links for the desktop applications...
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How many non-knowledgeable people (I just made that phrase up

) are worried about downloading those books, you think?
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I mean, I get it that Windows users are computer illiterate and just install anything shiny  (okay not really -- just most of them  )
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No need to be condescending. I found the built in cup holder ten minutes after I bought my first PC!
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Seriously, though, there are plenty of valid reasons to want to download from their website.
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I'm sure there are. I'm just saying there are easy enough workarounds for now. Even I, as a troglodytic Windoze user was able to scrounge up a copy of Nook Study just recently and Alfitize my purchases.
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Including the fact that it is nevertheless highly embarrassing for B&N to have their site Just Not Work. And people love to criticize them here. 
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Okay, their history of dumb decisions certainly does call for a bit of drubbing.