how to transfer book from PC to nook

[yarnmam]

purchased and downloaded book from B&N to my hard drive, how do I get it to my nook?  My nook won't connect to 3G for some reason, it used to at same place  --  do not have wifi access

[wordsandmelodi…]

Really, you want to get this on your NOOK via WiFi or 3G.  If you sideload the book, it will be in My Documents, not My B&N Library.  I'd go somewhere you can get 3G or WiFi access; try a library, or a coffee shop, or even McDonald's.

[YogiLJ]

What is sideload?

[yarnmam]

not sure what sideload means -- Thank you for the reply

[bklvr896]

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yarnmam wrote:

purchased and downloaded book from B&N to my hard drive, how do I get it to my nook?  My nook won't connect to 3G for some reason, it used to at same place  --  do not have wifi access

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Connect your Nook to your PC with the USB cable.  The computer should recognize the Nook and assign it a drive letter.  Mine gives it a drive letter and it says "Nook" next to it.

Find your book on the PC.

Expand the Nook drive in the left pane of Windows explorer so you can see the folders.  Drag the book file (.epub) to the My Documents folder.  If you downloaded directly from the website, make sure the filename doesn't include 2 periods, something like mybook.v2.epub.  If it does, you need to rename it before transferring it to the nook and get rid of the period before .v2.  The Nook has to recognize it as a .epub. 

After copying to the Nook, properly eject the Nook by right mouse clicking on the Nook drive and select eject.  Your nook should then leave USB drive mode and go back to your screen saver or whatever book you had open at the time.  Then you can disconnect from the computer.

Go to My Documents on the touch screen and tap "Check for New content".  Your book should be on the Nook at this point.

The instructions for sideloading are in the User Guide and there is a Video on the support page that shows how to sideload, under question 6. 

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-support-managing-your-library/379002489/?cds2Pid=35611

[wordsandmelodi…]

Sideloading is the process where you connect your NOOK to your computer with the cord, and transfer books over.  You will use it to load books from any store EXCEPT B&N, or library books.  It's definitely something you will want to learn how to do.  However, before everyone gets confused, it's NOT what you want to do here.  Your ebooks go into two separate libraries:  My B&N Library and My Documents.  Any Barnes and Noble books will automatically download (via 3G or WiFi) and put themselves into My B&N Library.  This is where they belong.  If you sideload a book, even if it DOES come from B&N, it will ONLY go in My Documents.  Plus, the next time you get WiFi access and check for new content, I bet you would wind up with a duplicate in My B&N Library, too.

The solution is to find somewhere with WiFi you can access and download it there.

[wordsandmelodi…]

And while I was typing that out, blkvr896 just gave a nice description of sideloading.  Again, you will need this for books you get from sources other than Barnes and Noble.

[yarnmam]

issue solved THANKS -- My PC did not see the nook when I connected the USB, but after I connected it and then turned it on, the PC found it -- Thanks again to all.............

[MLBerry]

A suggestion.  Your nook is capable of accepting an expansion card.  Up to 16 GB.  You can get an 8 GB card for less than $20.  Shop around.  Get the card, the manual explains how to install it.  It takes less than a minute.

Once the card is installed plug the nook into your computer.  You computer will recognize it and you will now have two new drives--one labled nook (drive letter) and one with just a (drive letter).  Go to that drive and create one or more new folders.  For example: my documents, my wallpaper, my music, my screensavers etc.  I simply duplicated what was already on the nooks's internal memory card less the B&N folder.  Now put all your sideloaded material on this drive.  The only things that go on the nook's original internal memory are B&N books and library books.  As a note you could put B&N books on the new drive and the nook will read them but it won't sync with your B&N account.

This way if anything happens to the nook's internal memory you don't loose your sideloads and you have the maximum amount of storage for B&N books.

[gandalf1369]

@MLBerry,

Excellent description.  This is exactly what I have done since I got my nook.  Only difference is I use a 16G card and put some music files on it in addition to all my sideloaded books.

[poolly]

Can you transfer books even if you don't have a SD card?

[Josienjoe]

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poolly wrote:

Can you transfer books even if you don't have a SD card?

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Yes