Using nook simple touch in Israel

[etzarfat]

Hi all,

I plan to buy a nook simple touch.
I live in Israel but I plan to buy it and shipped it to my sister who lives in NYC
I have some questions.
1. Will I be able to buy books from B&N if I use it in Israel
Straight from the nook or need to buy by using my PC
and then transferring it via USB.
2. My sister has a nook 1st generation and she bought some books and to
some magazines will I be able to read them with my nook in Israel.
3. Is there a nook cloud like an amazon cloud where can I upload
Books and read them in other places or devices that has nook app?

Thanks

[azazel1024]

There is no cloud sadly. So no, you cannot upload your own books to read them on your nook. You can side load content and you should be able to do that anywhere. BN has the option of downloading the books you've bought from them to any computer and you could side load them that way. HOWEVER, the only way you will be able to read the books on your nook is if your device is registered using the same name and credit card number that the content was purchased under OR strip the DRM off (google search Calibre and DRM removal plugin if you choose to go that route, I do that with my own content I have purchased even though only I use it, I refuse to be tied to a device).

This is doubly annoying because BN limits the user accessible storage to 236MB of the 2GB of internal storage (1GB for the operating system, ~750MB for BN content and 236MB for user sideloaded content). There is the microSD card slot, but the nook ST has an issue where shelves you create on it with microSD card slot content get lost on reboots and sometimes on plugging in to a PC. 236MB is still plenty for most owners with epubs. I have over 140 books loaded up currently and I am using less than half the main memory (about 150MB free of 236MB).

It is also annoying because side loaded content can't be synched between the nook ST and a tablet with the nook app running on it (you can side load content in to the nook app on an android device, but you cannot with an iOS device, and even on android devices I don't believe BN will synch side loaded content between it and their nook ereaders).

I don't believe you will be able to purchase any content living in Israel, though I could be wrong. BN by a number of agreements with some countries will not sell ebooks outside of the US (this may just apply to Canada's protectionism, but I believe BN generally will not sell their ebooks outside of the US, though having a US shipping/credit card address may allow you to, but they may also check your IP address at time of purchase as well, info seems mixed on that).

In general if you are outside of the US I'd only get a nook if you are planning on side loading content you purchase elsewhere.

I've been able to get beyond most of these limitations (well, I live in the US, I am not stuck with the content purchasing limitation, though I buy 3/4ths of my stuff from Amazon and convert for my nook ST anyway) or I don't find them overly onerous, but things I thought I should point out.

[geertm]

Originally Posted by etzarfat

Hi all,

I plan to buy a nook simple touch.
I live in Israel but I plan to buy it and shipped it to my sister who lives in NYC
I have some questions.
1. Will I be able to buy books from B&N if I use it in Israel
Straight from the nook or need to buy by using my PC
and then transferring it via USB.
2. My sister has a nook 1st generation and she bought some books and to
some magazines will I be able to read them with my nook in Israel.
3. Is there a nook cloud like an amazon cloud where can I upload
Books and read them in other places or devices that has nook app?

Thanks

1. Yes. Register your B&N account with an US shipping and billing address. Any valid US address will do, just Google something. The credit card address it not checked, so your own non-US credit card will work fine.
Install an US VPN like Hotspot Shield (free) or Always VPN ($8.50) on your PC. To buy books first start the VPN, when the VPN is active go to the B&N website and buy the books (or magazines/newspapers/subscriptions). Books that have been bought can be downloaded anywhere in the world. So if your Nook Touch has a Wifi connecton just sync your library and the books will be downloaded to your Nook using Wifi.
2. You can use the USB connection to sideload your sister's books to the Nook Touch. You will have to unlock the first book with the credit card number and name of your sister's credit card. Your Nook Touch should remember this information for the other books.
Your sister can just email you the ebook files or give them to you another way. I do not know if magazines can be shared this way.
3. The cloud is just for content bought from B&N. But you can read ebooks files that are on a micro-SD card, so you could perhaps read books on different devices that way (just put the SD card in different devices).

[etzarfat]

Thank you all for your help.
You gave me some Stuff to think about
I'm having trouble deciding between kindle touch and nook touch.

[jglerner]

Originally Posted by etzarfat

Thank you all for your help.
You gave me some Stuff to think about
I'm having trouble deciding between kindle touch and nook touch.

If you don´t want to mess with swindles just stick with KT. I live abroad and had no issues so far.

Just my .02 ...