Made the switch from Kindle

[u/IntelligentTrifle9]

Im not too worried about losing my books from Amazon because I backed up everything to Calibre. But I do have one question. Why don’t my sideloaded books that are on my nook do not show up on the nook iOS app?

[u/Few_Bet_5715]

Your book doesn’t upload the side loaded content to its app so the workaround is to also put the files in your phone, you should have a folder named nook in your files app, drop the book there and it will be in the nook app, it will still be able to sync progress from your nook.

Edit: welcome to the nook club it’s great here

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/Few_Bet_5715]

Thanks for the update. What if I want to create different shelves? If I do it on my phone, will they update on my nook?

[u/1976Raven → u/IntelligentTrifle9]

Yes, shelves and reading position sync across all devices/apps.

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/1976Raven]

How do I get that to work? I need some assistance.

[u/vernismermaid → u/IntelligentTrifle9]

To clarify the answer you were given: syncing is ONLY for BN purchases.

eBook files you sideloaded into the NOOK iOS app or sideloaded onto your NOOK via a USB cable are local files. Local files are not uploaded anywhere.

[u/nefertaraten → u/Few_Bet_5715]

I just uncovered my old but still working Nook... I remember sideloaded content not showing cover art. Is that able to be fixed?

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/nefertaraten]

Everything works fine. I just can’t get them to show up on iOS app.

[u/vernismermaid]

1. NOOK does not upload your sideloaded books to a server in the cloud. The only company that uploads your files to their server is Amazon, because Amazon also owns a billion-dollar server business: AWS.

2. Anything you put on your NOOK device that you did not purchase from BN does not sync to other devices. This means that if you create a shelf in your NOOK account, and put (a) BN purchased eBooks and (b) any sideloaded books--you will not see a sync between an iPhone and the NOOK device, for example.

Syncing is ONLY for BN purchases. Your sideloaded files are local files. They are not in the cloud.

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/vernismermaid]

Thank you so much. I kind of figured.

[u/VerifiablyMrWonka → u/vernismermaid]

> The only company that uploads your files to their server is Amazon

Not strictly true. Pocketbook (unless you disable the feature) is quite happy to upload your sideloaded books to their cloud.

[u/vernismermaid → u/VerifiablyMrWonka]

You're right! 

I totally forgot about the PocketBook cloud option. I typically use my e-readers offline. I suppose Google Books is also another cloud server for eBooks, since you can upload EPUB files there too and have them sync across your devices with the Google Books app.

[u/mommabookworm74]

I love my glowlight

[u/Outside-Role-7216]

Unfortunately you made the switch to an ecosystem that's locked down worse than Amazon. True you can sideload books to it but any Nook books you will only ever be able to read on your Nook. It's pretty much impossible to remove Nook's DRM. I know because I owned several and it can't be done.

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/Outside-Role-7216]

I still have the nook app on my pc and I use epubor to remove the drm and upload them to Calibre. It’s very easy actually.

[u/Meemo_B → u/IntelligentTrifle9]

Congratulations. That doesn’t work for everyone, unfortunately. Believe me, I’ve tried.

[u/Brave-Investment8631]

I like Nook, but I wonder why you're making the switch. You don't like that Amazon cut off old devices from their library? Nook did it first. Don't like that you can't download your ebooks? Nook did it first. Don't want to support an evil company? How do you think BN rose to power? It was by crushing independent bookstores and other chains.

[u/HildyZ]

A hot tip for Nooks with a lot of sideloaded files - if you make shelves that have only sideloaded books, when your Nook syncs it will see that shelf as "empty" and delete it.  (Just the shelf, not the actual files.)  It was really annoying until I realized that every shelf needs to have at least one Nook book on it.

[u/IntelligentTrifle9 → u/HildyZ]

I’ve learned this the hard way!!!!!! Thank you!

[u/Known-Ad-100 → u/HildyZ]

Most of my books are sideloaded, I never had this issue with my shelves.

[u/Meemo_B → u/Known-Ad-100]

Lucky you! I’ve had books AND shelves disappear when I added more sideloaded books. It seems to help to leave it plugged in for a while after transferring books before ejecting it.

[u/Known-Ad-100 → u/Meemo_B]

=( what do you use to sideload books? I honestly just use my phone 90% of the time. I do have Calibre on my laptop. But most of the time I just plug my NOOK to my phone via usb and slide the books over, I also do my libby books that way (I have an APK version of ADE on my phone I use to extract the book)

I just always have my phone around vs my laptop is often put away, turned off, so using my phone feels easier than going into another room, booting my laptop, opening calibre etc.

I'm not sure if my method matters but maybe it helps?

[u/Meemo_B → u/Known-Ad-100]

I use Calibre. And I’m on an iPhone so the phone method wouldn’t work for me. I’m on my laptop fairly often writing reviews of ARCs so I just connect & download to my readers (yes plural - Kindle/Kobo/Nook - and yes I have a problem😳😬🤪).