Is your "nook for mac" broken after upgrading to Mountain Lion?

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Is your "nook for mac" broken after upgrading to Mountain Lion?

Barnes & Noble offer very usable software to purchase and read ebooks (nook books) on a Mac laptop or desktop. However - it hangs after upgrading to 10.6.8 or higher. This is a very vexing problem and Google documents nothing but frustrated threads. i have found a remedy:

1. Go to Documents and open "My Barnes & Noble eBooks" and remove the folder inside (labelled with your email address by B&N). This folder has all your purchased nook books in it. Save it to your desktop or anywhere safe - you will put it back later.

2. Download "Easyfind" - a very safe and functional search device which locates ALL system files. Install.

3. Using Easyfind, locate all folders & files named "nook" or "Barnes" and trash. You can do this using Spotlight but it is really hard compared to Easyfind and you might miss something.

4. Download B&N nook for mac zip file from their website (you want the latest one) and install it. While you are downloading, "sign in" to your Barnes & Noble Account and leave it open.

5. Replace that saved folder (your email address is it's name) in "My Barnes & Noble eBooks" in your Documents file.

6.) Open that folder and right-click a book (.epub will be the end of the name) and mouse-over "open with" then click Nook_For_Mac.app

7.) This should launch Nook - it will prompt you to re-register. Do so.

Everything should work fine in Mountain Lion after this (or even Snow Leopard 10.6.8).

Nook For Mac is REALLY nice ebook reader EXCEPT for one thing - it "Phones Home" to B&N ALL THE TIME! I am pretty sure this is why it hangs so easily. It is very unwilling to "just work" unless it can call home base first and sync it's cloud.

Hope this helps - I went to a great deal of trouble to figure it out!

Posted on Aug 20, 2012 11:58 AM

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Answer 1

HvnLee

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Aug 5, 2013 7:32 PM in response to NA Smith

This absolutely fixed my problem! Thank you so much!

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NA Smith Author

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Aug 6, 2013 9:59 PM in response to HvnLee

Nice - it has been a while since I did this, glad it worked for you. Another (lazier, less elegant) workaround I've found is to click open Nook, and when it hangs (halfway open & frozen) right-click anywhere on the frozen Nook and click 'Back' then right-click again and choose 'Reload'.

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Aug 14, 2013 6:12 AM in response to NA Smith

Thanks, but this didn't work for me. I did a fresh install, so there was no subfolder in my Barnes and Noble folder.

I tried the second suggestion from NA Smith too, but that didn't work either.

I had this problem last year on my imac, and I gave up on Barnes and Noble. But I had one book I wanted to access (a diet book), and tried again on my new Macbook Pro.... same frustrating thing, even after all this time - shame on B&N!!!

So, I bought the one book again, this time at Amazon. I feel sorry for anyone who has bought many ebooks from B&N - they are definitely not even trying to be serious about their software - I assume the have a couple high-school kids working part time (?).

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