Immediately after registration, your NOOK downloads a local copy of the catalog from your online digital library. It uses this catalog copy when searching your library. Your NOOK keeps the local catalog in sync with the online catalog. For more information about synchronization, see “Library Synchronization” on page 92.
Your NOOK does not assume that you want to download all of the content in your library to your NOOK. It downloads content when you ask it to, or when you ask to read it. Your NOOK
does automatically download the five most recently purchased eBooks that were purchased from BN.com within the 30 days prior to registering your NOOK.
Later, when you make purchases from the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, what you buy is downloaded automatically to your NOOK.
An Unregistered NOOK
Fewer features are supported on an unregistered NOOK than on a registered one. On an unregistered NOOK:
• You can browse the Shop, but not buy anything (including free eBooks and samples). If you try to buy something, you will be prompted to register.
• You can read, bookmark, highlight, and take notes
• You cannot rate eBooks and periodicals.
• In Barnes & Noble Bookstores, you receive in-store special offers, but you cannot purchase eBooks or periodicals until you register your NOOK. You also cannot use Read In Store to read many eBooks in Barnes & Noble Bookstores.
Unregistering your NOOK
You should not need to unregister your NOOK. But in three cases you would want to:
• If you change the email address and/or password of your BN.com account. In this case, unregister your NOOK, then make the account changes, and then re-register your NOOK with the new information. Read the information below about the impact of unregistration and re-registration.
• If you are giving your NOOK to a family member or friend, but do not want that person to make purchases.
• If your NOOK is lost or stolen.
If you plan to sell your NOOK, we recommend that you back up your B&N and personal content, unregister your NOOK, and then reset your NOOK to factory settings. For more information, see “Resetting to Factory Settings” on page 183.
Unregistering your NOOK does not delete B&N or personal content, but it does delete other information, as explained here. Note, however, that if you re-register your NOOK, B&N content is deleted at that point. If you want to save the B&N content, you must copy it to a location for personal content, for example, the my documents folder or to a supplemental microSD card if present. Before re-registering your NOOK, also back up your B&N content to your personal computer.
Unregistering your NOOK:
• Unregisters your NOOK, severing the association between your NOOK and your Barnes & Noble online account
• Does not delete B&N content or personal content from the internal memory
• Does not delete personal content from a supplemental microSD card if present
• Moves B&N content from the my B&N downloads folder to the my documents folder in the internal memory
• Deletes all metadata (for example, bookmarks, highlights, notes, and current reading position). Information about shelves and shelving of items in your library is also deleted.
each credit card one time. For example, if you bought 10 eBooks last year with a credit card ending in 1111, and another 10 eBooks this year with a credit card ending in 2222, then when you open one of the eBooks from last year, you will need to supply the credit card ending in 1111, and when you open one of the eBooks from this year, you will need to enter the credit card ending in 2222. After that, you can open all of the eBooks.
• Deletes the owner and device profile, information about Wi-Fi hotspots, contacts, and choices of screensavers and wallpaper, from Settings
• Does not change other settings. For example, the settings for sleep and touchscreen timers and Reader fonts are not changed.
To unregister your NOOK:
1 On the Home menu, tap settings.
2 Tap Device > Unregister your nook.
3 Tap Confirm.
Re-registering your NOOK
Re-registering a NOOK that has been reset to factory settings is exactly the same process as registering a NOOK that has never been registered. For information about that process, see “Registration” on page 64.
This section explains what happens during re-registration of a NOOK that has been unregistered. Re-registering your NOOK deletes B&N content (the contents of the My B&N Library section of your library, which is in the my B&N downloads folder on your NOOK). If you want to save the B&N content, you must copy it to a location for personal content, for example, the my documents folder or to a supplemental microSD card if present. Before re-registering your NOOK, also back up your B&N content to your personal computer. Re-registering your NOOK:
• Associates your NOOK with a Barnes & Noble online account (the same one as before or a different one)
• Does not affect My B&N Library (B&N content in the my B&N downloads folder on your NOOK), because there are no contents in My B&N Library on an unregistered NOOK. If contents were present in the my B&N downloads folder, they were moved to the my documents folder when your NOOK was unregistered.
• Does not delete personal content in the internal memory (documents, music, audiobooks, screensavers, and wallpaper), or on a supplemental microSD card (documents, music, and audiobooks) if present
• Deletes all metadata (for example, bookmarks, highlights, notes, and current reading position). Information about shelves and shelving of items in your library is also deleted.
• Deletes information used to unlock DRM-secured content
• Deletes the owner and device profile, information about Wi-Fi hotspots, contacts, and choices of screensavers and wallpaper, from Settings
• Does not change other settings. For example, the settings for sleep and touchscreen timers and Reader fonts are not changed.
After re-registration, you can download content from the online digital library for the new account. If metadata for the current reading page and rating is associated with the content, it is downloaded too.