[hank]

I have a Glowlight 3 (and a Mac). I found the only way to be sure files will show up in the Nook is to unmount the Nook and then either go away for a few hours, or to shut down the Mac. I looked at the "About This Mac/More Info/USB" and found the Mac takes forever to detect removal of the Nook properly.

But what's maddening is the Nook files seem fragile. My sideloaded books show up as 'files" rather than as "books" -- and aren't stable. Sometimes they're corrupt and the Nook tells me to erase all USB transferred files. Often, a message along the lines of "This book cannot be opened ... it will be downloaded again later" shows up. Dammit, I never "downloaded" it in the first place.

Oh, and I had three "shelves" for books by single authors. They've all disappeared.

And just tonight, I went to erase one single sideloaded book I'd finished reading, got the usual multiple screen blink/inversions, and -- Lo! -- all my "files" _except_ the one I was deleting had disappeared. Hello-o-o programmers, you got a bit flipped somehow here?

Rebooted and all the files' names came back -- but none of them can be opened. "Cannot open this book .... will be re-downloaded later."

Dagfnabbit.

This keeps happening. Is it a known OS bug, or is it defective hardware?

Mounting the Nook on the Mac desktop with USB, I can see all the books I expect to be there, under /Nook/MyFiles/Books/ -- file sizes look correct.

Heck, at least with my Clie SJ30, I can force the library to rebuild itself when it gets confused.

Is there any way to make the Nook discover that it has files it's forgotten??