Connecting to B&N using USB

[favabean]

I purchased the Nook 3g, but find I can't access AT&T from my house.   (There is a small corner in our yard where I can receive a signal if I hold very still).  I thought I would just be able to hook up a usb cable to access Barnes and Noble and use my nook , but no such luck   Is there a way?  I can access my nook files from my PC, but I can't use the nook while it is hooked up to my PC. 

Thanks

[bklvr896]

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favabean wrote:

I purchased the Nook 3g, but find I can't access AT&T from my house.   (There is a small corner in our yard where I can receive a signal if I hold very still).  I thought I would just be able to hook up a usb cable to access Barnes and Noble and use my nook , but no such luck   Is there a way?  I can access my nook files from my PC, but I can't use the nook while it is hooked up to my PC. 

Thanks

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If you are asking if you can connect the B&N online store with the Nook connected to your computer, you can't.  Your computer simply thinks the Nook is an external drive, like a flash drive.  You can however, download the books to your PC and sideload them to the My Documents section of the Nook.  If you do this, install Nook for PC and download the books to your computer that way, downloading directly from the  website results in a weird file name that Nook can't recognize.

I'm assuming you don't have WiFi at home either or you could connect with the WiFi.

[favabean]

Thanks.  You are correct that we don't have Wifi.  This is a problem.  If I exchanged my 3g for the regular Nook, would I be able to access B&N via my PC? 

[cbtengr]

Not through the Nook, it's the same Nook minus 3G.  You would connect via your PC as described previously.

[Ya_Ya]

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favabean wrote:

Thanks.  You are correct that we don't have Wifi.  This is a problem.  If I exchanged my 3g for the regular Nook, would I be able to access B&N via my PC? 

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No.  None of the NOOKs are able to use the computer internet connection to access BN.

But you can always do as bklvr896 suggests and download your books to NOOK for PC and then sideload them to your NOOK.

[icebike]

Or buy a cheap wifi router.  

Seriously, these things are getting dirt cheap:  Under 20 bucks:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Belkin-Wireless-G-Broadband-Router/10730619

[ibdave]

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bklvr896 wrote:

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If to your computer that way, downloading directly from the  website results in a weird file name that Nook can't recognize...................................

I had this problem. The file had a long number and 2 extentions something like - .ve1.epub

I was advised to change the filename by deleting the first period and then everything worked as expected. Love this forum.

[Michael-V]

@ibdave,

That is correct.

Files with the extension .v1.epub or .v2.epub (i.e. filename.v1.epub) will not open on 1.5

You would need to rename it to filename.epub