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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Well, you can't do that with ebooks from a few companies.
Barnes & Noble with their Nook books used to permit it, but don't now. Your advice would have been great if I had heard it before they changed.
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I think you're being a bit unfair to B&N. When they shut down Fictionwise and EReader.com (or whatever the sister site was), they gave advanced warning, and transferred most of the ebooks over to B&N, albeit imperfectly, and never fixed the errors (at least in my experience). They discontinued the ability to download ebooks from their website via a browser without warning. They stopped supporting the PC Nook applications for Windows 7 and earlier, without warning, but the last time I checked, you can still download the app from B&N if you know where to look, and it will still download ebooks to your PC (sometimes) and you can read them within the app. You can download ebooks to Windows 8 and Windows 10 with the app from the Windows Store. I don't know about the Nook and Mac OS. Within the last 6 months, I installed the Windows 7 app and downloaded all of my B&N ebooks to a new PC automatically, although I usually use the Windows 8.1 app to download a couple of ebooks, because I usually have to do something like delete all my books and reinstall the windows 7 app to get it to work.
You can't download Kindle books from the Amazon website from the browser either. You have to do that from their Kindle app. I don't see many people whining about that, except when they get bitten by a new Kindle version with a new DRM implementation. Kobo lets you download your books from the browser, but it's quite a pain to download hundreds of books.