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GracieAllen · 04-10-2020, 09:23 AM

It's all academic at this point 'cause the B&N transaction was rolled back, the books obtained from Amazon, put in Calibre, converted to epub, and made available when I want them. But......

As far as "the Barnes and Noble books are located in "C:\Users\%username%\App Data\Local\Packages\BarnesNoble.Nook_ahnzqzva31enc \LocalState"

No. If you look at the snip from the file explorer I posted earlier, there a several files in that folder. NONE of them is an epub.

As for doing an "Add Books" in Calibre. It doesn't magically go find B&N epubs. It's just a dumb Calibre loader. YOU point it to where the epubs are and it inserts them. If you can't FIND the epubs, Calibre fer-sher isn't going to go FIND them for you.

When I get books from the library they go into user/me/documents/my digital additions - always (SO FAR)
When I get books from Amazon they go into user/me/documents/my kindle content - always (SO FAR)
When I get books from the Cloud library they go into user/me/appdata/roaming/bibliotheca/cloudlibrary/prod/ebooks - always (SO FAR)

But when I got books from B&N, despite the Nook app running on the Windows computer, AND doing a full search of the ENTIRE C: drive with Agent Ransack, NO unknown, random, not-already-accounted-for EPUBS were found. None.

As for downloading to the tablet. NO. Everything goes into Calibre. That's where they're catalogued, that's how they're kept track of. CAN I download to a tablet yes. CAN I get them OFF the tablet, to the computer, so I can properly catalogue them? Not easily. They're stored such that you have to go through gyrations to break the security so they can be copied.

Consequently, B&N now falls into the "way more work than it's worth" category (also known as the "SCREW IT" category) and won't get any more money 'til they stop doing this. If they're getting enough money from other people that they don't need to make it possible to easily access downloaded epubs, they clearly have enough money not to need mine. And since they, and every other bookseller today is a commodity, I'll get mine elsewhere. I haven't found ANYTHING at B&N I can't find elsewhere in years, and I don't recall EVER finding anything cheaper at B&N than I can get it elsewhere.

One of the nice things these days is there are alternatives to the vast majority of organizations that make customers jump through unnecessary hoops.

04-10-2020, 09:23 AM	#21
GracieAllen Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 93638 Join Date: Nov 2017 Device: Nexus 9	It's all academic at this point 'cause the B&N transaction was rolled back, the books obtained from Amazon, put in Calibre, converted to epub, and made available when I want them. But...... As far as "the Barnes and Noble books are located in "C:\Users\%username%\App Data\Local\Packages\BarnesNoble.Nook_ahnzqzva31enc \LocalState" No. If you look at the snip from the file explorer I posted earlier, there a several files in that folder. NONE of them is an epub. As for doing an "Add Books" in Calibre. It doesn't magically go find B&N epubs. It's just a dumb Calibre loader. YOU point it to where the epubs are and it inserts them. If you can't FIND the epubs, Calibre fer-sher isn't going to go FIND them for you. When I get books from the library they go into user/me/documents/my digital additions - always (SO FAR) When I get books from Amazon they go into user/me/documents/my kindle content - always (SO FAR) When I get books from the Cloud library they go into user/me/appdata/roaming/bibliotheca/cloudlibrary/prod/ebooks - always (SO FAR) But when I got books from B&N, despite the Nook app running on the Windows computer, AND doing a full search of the ENTIRE C: drive with Agent Ransack, NO unknown, random, not-already-accounted-for EPUBS were found. None. As for downloading to the tablet. NO. Everything goes into Calibre. That's where they're catalogued, that's how they're kept track of. CAN I download to a tablet yes. CAN I get them OFF the tablet, to the computer, so I can properly catalogue them? Not easily. They're stored such that you have to go through gyrations to break the security so they can be copied. Consequently, B&N now falls into the "way more work than it's worth" category (also known as the "SCREW IT" category) and won't get any more money 'til they stop doing this. If they're getting enough money from other people that they don't need to make it possible to easily access downloaded epubs, they clearly have enough money not to need mine. And since they, and every other bookseller today is a commodity, I'll get mine elsewhere. I haven't found ANYTHING at B&N I can't find elsewhere in years, and I don't recall EVER finding anything cheaper at B&N than I can get it elsewhere. One of the nice things these days is there are alternatives to the vast majority of organizations that make customers jump through unnecessary hoops. Last edited by GracieAllen; 04-10-2020 at 09:27 AM.