Backing up Books to PC

[Debh366]

Can someone give me the page number in the Nook manual for this, I looked through the table of contents and can't find anything about it. If it's not in our manuals, can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

[LarryOnLI]

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Debh366 wrote:

Can someone give me the page number in the Nook manual for this, I looked through the table of contents and can't find anything about it. If it's not in our manuals, can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

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Because the B&N books on your NOOK Tablet are in a separate, hidden from USB, partition, you are unable to back up the books from your NT to your PC.

Instead you need to download them from the B&N website. You could just go to your NOOK LIbrary on the website and click on the download buttons one at a time, but if you have a lot of books it would probably be easier to install NOOK for PC (or NOOK for Mac depending on what you have) and use that to download the books to your computer.

[Debh366]

Ok, thank you for this, Larry.  So will it give me the option as to where to download it on my PC?  I didn't realize it was this easy, I read that you have to sideload your Nook or something like that and then copy everything from the Nook to the PC.  If I can just do it from the B&N site, that would be much easier.

Then if I need to reload a book from my PC to my Nook, would I just hook it up with the USB and copy it over?  Or is there something else I need to do?

Thanks so much!

[LarryOnLI]

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Debh366 wrote:

Ok, thank you for this, Larry.  So will it give me the option as to where to download it on my PC?  I didn't realize it was this easy, I read that you have to sideload your Nook or something like that and then copy everything from the Nook to the PC.  If I can just do it from the B&N site, that would be much easier.

Then if I need to reload a book from my PC to my Nook, would I just hook it up with the USB and copy it over?  Or is there something else I need to do?

Thanks so much!

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Yes you can just copy it over via USB from your computer.

Just so you are aware, when you side-load it from your computer it will not go to the hidden B&N partition. Instead it will go on the much smaller user accessible partition or on your external SD card. This is actually a good way to conserve space on the B&N partition.

Books you side-load are no longer treated as B&N purchased books, you will not be able to lend or archive them, and your reading position in them will not sync to other devices.

If a book is both side-loaded and down loaded to the B&N partition, then it will appear twice on your NT.

I do not thins the NOOK for PC application gives you a choice about where to store your books, but you can just copy them wherever you want after you download them.

[Debh366]

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LarryOnLI wrote:

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Yes you can just copy it over via USB from your computer.

Just so you are aware, when you side-load it from your computer it will not go to the hidden B&N partition. Instead it will go on the much smaller user accessible partition or on your external SD card. This is actually a good way to conserve space on the B&N partition.

Books you side-load are no longer treated as B&N purchased books, you will not be able to lend or archive them, and your reading position in them will not sync to other devices.

If a book is both side-loaded and down loaded to the B&N partition, then it will appear twice on your NT.

I do not thins the NOOK for PC application gives you a choice about where to store your books, but you can just copy them wherever you want after you download them.

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Thanks again Larry!  I appreciate the help.  I have an SD card so in case I lose a book I can always put it on that.  I just wanted to get my books backed up just in case, you know?  I have a lot of money invested right now.

Have a great day!

[PJLLB]

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Debh366 wrote:

Can someone give me the page number in the Nook manual for this, I looked through the table of contents and can't find anything about it. If it's not in our manuals, can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

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Why would you need to backup the books you but from B&N?  They're always maintained on the B&N cloud servers, and if you need to re-download them to you Nook, they are always available to do that.  The cloud servers are fully reliable, unlike your PC.

[geertm]

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PJLLB wrote:

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Debh366 wrote:

Can someone give me the page number in the Nook manual for this, I looked through the table of contents and can't find anything about it. If it's not in our manuals, can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.

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Why would you need to backup the books you but from B&N?  They're always maintained on the B&N cloud servers, and if you need to re-download them to you Nook, they are always available to do that.  The cloud servers are fully reliable, unlike your PC.

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No ebook store can guarantee that books will always be available for downloading.

There all kinds of reasons why a book can become unavailable. For example: B&N looses it contact with a publisher. An author leaves a publisher. A publisher goes bankrupt.

A lot of people lost books when Fictionwise lost the Agency publishers.

No-one knows what will happen when in a few months time the three Agency settlement publishers have to negotiate new contracts.

[Nathander_Von_…]

It makes perfect sense to protect your library by keeping a backup. I doubt very much that the B&N servers will go down or they will pull books that we have already purchased but you never know.

Stranger things have happened so it's better to be safe than sorry eh?

[robertVA]

I originally opened my account using the PC reader application. By the time I purchased a hardware reader about a year later several free public domain titles had disappeared from my account and could not be downloaded from B&N. Such books often have free or low price duplicates in the shop, but it's difficult to tell which of the duplicates are full of OCR errors (digits in words, misinterpreted letters etc). I was able to sideload those books from the PC reader application's folder to the user documents partition on the nook.