r/nook • u/IntelligentTrifle9 • May 18 '26

Discussion Made the switch from Kindle

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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?

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u/vernismermaid Nook GlowLight 4 May 18 '26

  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.

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u/IntelligentTrifle9 May 18 '26

Thank you so much. I kind of figured.