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Originally Posted by wallcraft
It is confusing. The Nook fully supports "sideloading" standard Adobe DRMed ePubs and PDFs. In other words, you copy these to the Nook using USB, rather than wireless. This includes Adobe lending library ebooks. At least, we assume so - it won't be certain until someone actually gets this to work on a Nook.
If your EInk device has been registered to your AdobeID, then these same ebook files will work on the Reader and you just need to copy them over. Desktop ADE can copy them for you, or you do this yourself via the USB filesystem.
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The key point here is....
HOW do you, or can you, register your Nook into the Adobe ID ?
My understanding is that every Reader device has a Physical ID (PID), and this PID is either used to encrypt the ebook DRM, or register the PID as part of a family of devices authorized to open/access/read a specific ebook DRM.
I too have been totally confused by the partial and incomplete answers to the question.
We all understand that the Nook may not "directly" talk to the Overdrive lending library, but then....
If we use Adobe Digital Editions to checkout and download a DRM protected epub or DRM protected PDF, can we then "sideload" that ebook onto the Nook ?
If so - HOW is the DRM maintained with respect to the Nook and it's PID ?
And just out of curiousity, how is it then any different for the Sony or the Kindle ?
Again, my understanding is that the Sony has desktop software to "register" the Sony Reader PID with Adobe DRM..... and both the Kindle and the Nook do not have this EXTRA software puzzle piece.... therefore can't open any sideloaded DRM protected content.
SO, in summary, HOW would a Nook become "registered" for sideloaded DRM content?