First Nook Newbie Question
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rolanniSo, I downloaded books (yes, bookS; for I am a bookaholic. Which is why there not only isn't any room on my bookshelves; there's no room for more bookshelves in the house. Which is the third or fourth reason why I thought an eReader might be a smart idea.), and I put them in Calibre and then I jacked in the Nook and moved the books over. And, since the Nook was showing up as a J Drive and it asked if I wanted to make a new directory, I did, calling it, creatively To Be Read. I put all the new books into this directory.
I then opened my Nook and behold! there are the new books, but! They are listed as "unshelved" and I needed to moved them to the TBR "shelf". And there's no sound nor sight of the directory I made on the J Drive.
What's up with that? Do I need to install an SD card (*stares at Nook, decides she'd somehow have to Open It Up in order to do this*) in order to make files and file names actually stick?
Abundant Spanish Aunts
ETA: I also made a PDF of "Intelligent Design" and brought it over to the Nook, so I can retire to the couch and read it, thus saving 20-ish pieces of paper. Go, me.
I then opened my Nook and behold! there are the new books, but! They are listed as "unshelved" and I needed to moved them to the TBR "shelf". And there's no sound nor sight of the directory I made on the J Drive.
What's up with that? Do I need to install an SD card (*stares at Nook, decides she'd somehow have to Open It Up in order to do this*) in order to make files and file names actually stick?
Abundant Spanish Aunts
ETA: I also made a PDF of "Intelligent Design" and brought it over to the Nook, so I can retire to the couch and read it, thus saving 20-ish pieces of paper. Go, me.
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:24 pm (UTC)(one of the things I love about the Nook is the ability to decide where the books go my ownself, rather than having a default mode.)
Also, you don't need the card until you run out of space (or want to load videos) and when you do, the "opening up" part should be simple (it is for the NookColor, anyway)
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:37 pm (UTC)http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/08/18/loading-epub-books-into-the-nook/
Apparently you need to use an Adobe program called Adobe Digital Editions to move books from the PC to the Nook.
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 04:58 pm (UTC)Also figure if my nook ever goes down - the book I buy from
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Date: 2011-02-20 04:59 pm (UTC)Lorna
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Date: 2011-02-20 05:08 pm (UTC)The technical stuff
Date: 2011-02-20 05:27 pm (UTC)I've noticed that tne nook sort of prefers the ebook format, and have been loading most stories in that format.
I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from it. It's a long way past the early Embid reader application.
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Date: 2011-02-20 05:33 pm (UTC)Unfortunately
Date: 2011-02-20 05:49 pm (UTC)http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html#why-does-app-not-support-collections-on-the-kindle-or-shelves-on-the-nook
So they don't seem to have anything to do with folders and Calibre and so probably any ebook manager out there can't handle them from the computer side.
Good luck with your Nook and may it serve you well.
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Jedaï
Re: The technical stuff
Date: 2011-02-20 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 06:50 pm (UTC)All I have to do is call Winslow Library and get my patron number. They stopped issuing paper library cards a long time ago, because people only lost them, anyway...
Newbie Question and shelves
Date: 2011-02-20 06:55 pm (UTC)Edith from PA
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Date: 2011-02-20 07:00 pm (UTC)Optional
Date: 2011-02-20 09:28 pm (UTC)ADE is only required if you're dealing with library books or something of that ilk, in order to handle the borrowing period.
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Date: 2011-02-21 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-21 07:37 am (UTC)(there are a number of applications you can use for moving books, btw.)
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Date: 2011-02-21 07:59 am (UTC)Our entire family have Nooks - three of the original 3G/wireless (myself, spouse and eldest daughter), one Nook Color (youngest daughter), and I'm not certain which version the married daughter has. We all love them.
Still acquiring certain authors in ePub format...
Calibre is an okay application, but as others have noted, it does not support the shelves feature of Nook. Something I like about it is its ability to convert from one format to another; I've used it to changeover some PDFs and TXTs to ePub.
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Date: 2011-02-21 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-22 02:37 pm (UTC)Melodie
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Date: 2011-02-22 11:32 pm (UTC)I hadn't thought of using the college ID at the public libraries, though I knew it was good at the other college libraries.
Good to know!