Will I be able to transfer my downloaded Nook books to the ipad?

There is a free Nook app which you can re-download your Nook purchases into - you won't be able to, for example, read them in Apple's iBooks app as ebooks tend to have digital rights management on them which tie them to the store's e-reader and/or apps.

(Edit : ibooks supports DRM-free epub books as well, and PDFs)

For the ibookstore for iBooks, some are free and some aren't (similarly for games and apps in the iTunes app store), it tends to be best to shop around and get books from the cheapest store and don't limit yourself to just using the one store and app i.e. look at Apple's ibookstore , Amazon (there is a free Kindle app for the iPad as well), Barnes & Noble etc.

Yes to both music and books. Music is the same as for iPods and iPhones - it will sync to the Music app on the iPad (it used to be called the iPod app but it was renamed in iOS 5) .

For books it will depend partly on whether they are DRM-free or not : those that are can be synced to, for example, the iBooks app; if they aren't DRM free then you may need the store's own app (if they have one) in order to read it on the iPad. If they support copying of books from your computer then they will tend to use 'file sharing'

I believe that the Nook app (it's not available here in the UK so I can't check the actual app) has an 'account' setting within it that allows you to access your purchase history in it and (re-)download those books directly into the app - they have a help page for the iPad app here :

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-for-ipad-help/379002920

pamfromauburn wrote:

Im not the most technical savvy individual. Is this something I can easily do, with the Nook app and then redownloading the books? I know that Nook is epub format. What is the iBooks? And thanks, guys! I will probably have more questions as I go along. Hope you don't mind! 😉

Simply download and install the free NOOK app onto your iPad. When you open the app, you just hit the "sync" symbol (after signing into you B&N account, I think....I can't remember and I just did it yesterday 🙂) and all of your purchased Barnes and Noble books will be show up in the app with a "download" bar across the book cover. Tap to download. I just did this yesterday when my new iPad arrived and it was a piece of cake. The display when I opened a book was amazing.............and I own the N1E, the NST, and the NC!

If they are DRM-free then you can copy them to your computer and add them to its iTunes via File > Add To Library and they will then appear in the Books part of the iTunes library - you can then sync them to the iBooks app (which is a free download) on an iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch).

the nook app will let you redownload them to where it keeps it files and only it can access them