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Originally Posted by jdege
I wonder, sometimes, how much business B&N is losing, because of this, and has lost.
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They lost my business. I'm sure they don't care. But they lost it none-the-less.
I am trying to recall the process I used to get my books from B&N after they removed the capability to download them. I think it was something like this (but I can't say for sure, because I've forgotten what I actually did):
(1) Download eBooks directly to Nook (they still allowed this). Make sure books go to memory card, not built in memory.
(2) Pull memory card out of Nook, insert it into a card reader, and plug that into a PC's USB port.
(3) Copy the eBooks off of the card/reader/PC.
When you just plug the Nook into the PC, you cannot read the books off of the memory card. Because the Nook firmware blocks direct low level access to the memory card, and effectively hides the eBooks from your view (you'd think the memory card was blank from what you can see). But once the memory card is OUT of the Nook, the Nook firmware no longer controls what you can do with that card. I can't remember how the eBooks came off of the memory card - but I'm sure they were still encrypted. But that's simple enough to take care of using a Calibre plug-in.
This is what I recall doing, I'm hoping there was not some other step I did that I'm forgetting to mention now.
I seem to remember that there was a eBook or two that I had purchased from B&N that I could not get using this method, or any other method I tried to pry them out of B&N or off my Nook. I am not sure what the deal was with those. Maybe I was not even able to download them to the Nook in the first place? That's kind of what I'm thinking now. But bottom line: I am totally done with B&N - both for eBooks and as a physical book retailer. You've heard the saying, "Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice - shame on me!" B&N didn't get that second chance. And never will.