12-06-2012, 08:25 PM | #331 |
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Mine finally arrived. Of course the website keeps crashing on me so I can't tell if they are all there. B&N really needs to scrap everything about their e-commerce site and start over.
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12-06-2012, 09:12 PM | #332 |
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12-06-2012, 10:39 PM | #333 |
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The B&N site stayed up long enough for me to discover one oops. My copy of The Lord of the Rings didn't transfer over as an omnibus of all three books. I have a copy of the Two Towers. At first I thought they must have changed it to three separate files, but The Two Towers is the only book in my library.
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12-06-2012, 11:08 PM | #334 | |
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12-07-2012, 01:16 AM | #335 | |
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Interesting - I actually do have a yankee CC number so will try that and see what happens. |
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12-07-2012, 09:04 AM | #336 | |
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I also found one other parser error that came out in my favor. My Fictionwise "extended excerpt" of Neil Gaiman's Coraline became the whole book over at B&N. Which is interesting because the extended excerpt of David Brin's Kiln Prople is one of the FW titles that did not transfer at all. |
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12-07-2012, 09:06 AM | #337 |
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I shall make sure that I double-check my nook list against my fictionwise list, especially LotR.
Assuming that I eventually get my books transferred, of course! |
12-07-2012, 10:01 AM | #338 |
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The week of 11/19/12 has long passed and still no code for the converted account. This seems like one big mess. I wonder if B&N just didn't anticipate the amount of people who would actually like their old books converted to a new account, or if they just didn't care.
Thank goodness I never bought a Nook! Ebook buyers are very loyal and it is a shame that B&N have let a chance to retain good customers slip through their fingers. Amazon isn't perfect but I find myself buying just about everything from them now. I will miss fictionwise though. |
12-07-2012, 11:34 AM | #339 |
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My code came!
I just got a code from B&N.
It took two goes to get it accepted and then I got a message that my books are being added. We'll see but it seems like some progress. |
12-07-2012, 11:48 AM | #340 | |
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The link in the email let to the proper page with the transfer code pre-entered, but with the letters in *lowercase* instead of uppercase. It resulted in an error alert box. Pasting in the uppercase code resulted in a message that the books will be added. So, it seems the transfer code page is case sensitive: verify the code carefully. |
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12-07-2012, 11:52 AM | #341 | |
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12-07-2012, 11:53 AM | #342 |
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Success! I requested a 2nd code. Like the previous poster the link didn't work, because the letters in the code were in lower case. I pasted the code into the web page, and now 150 of my 155 books have been transferred. I think that's as good as I could hope for.
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12-07-2012, 12:10 PM | #343 | |
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I wonder how they are chosing versions to port? On my older books I notice that the covers are not from the version origionally purchased, but they aren't the art on the current versions for sale at B&N. They are actual covers, not some generic thing, but art I either haven't seen or that was used in the intervening years. With B&N constantly crashing on me I haven't been able to check dates in the books. Anyone notice if they are updating books as they add them to libraries? |
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12-07-2012, 12:19 PM | #344 |
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I bought the Mobi versions of the LoTRs, both solo and the omnibus.
In the transfer, I now have *two* versions of THE TWO TOWERS. |
12-07-2012, 12:21 PM | #345 |
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I need to call B&N. I have two B&N accounts, one has way more books, and of course it's the other one that B&N/Fictionwise want to use for the transfer. =S
Maybe I can talk them into merging them. |
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