Nook HD +

Here is a plan that works.  I just did it on my Nook HD+.  It requires a Dropbox account which is free and easy to set up.

1. Install Dropbox on your Nook HD.

2. On your computer or other device, put the .epub file for your book in a Dropbox folder.

3. Open the .epub file on your Nook HD.

4. Read and enjoy.

(It may prompt you to select which reader you want to use in step 3.  Since I have the Books a Million reader on mine, it asked if I wanted to use that or the generic reader.  Both worked to open the book.)

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I have had exactly the same problems.  Now overcome them.

DO NOT PLUG BNOOK INTO COMPUTER

Download Overdrive Media Console from your Nook Shop if you do not already have it.

Authorise your Nook with your ADE ID (done when loading Overdrive)

Go on to web from Nook

Go to your library

choose books

checkout

download to Android

choose Overdrive

Hey presto you have your library books on your Nook in Overdrive Medial console

Sort of like what user "Sopwithcamel74" said, I got mine to work through sideloading.  I had already downloaded a book from the library onto my desktop into ADE and wanted to put it on my Nook HD.  Of course I had tried a bunch of different things previously, so what I write below is based on the last few things I tried that actually worked.  And hopefully, there is not some other phantom step I took that helped the steps below...in other words, I hope you will only need the steps below:

From ADE 2.0:

1) I right clicked on the book I wanted to transfer and clicked "Show File in Explorer"

2) In Windows Explorer, I clicked on "Edit>Copy to Folder"

3) I found my Nook HD in the Windows Explorer window as a portable device and clicked on in (Computer>BNTV  I guess that's it's current default name?) 

4) Selected the appropriate file (Internal Storage> B&N Downloads > Books)

5) Then clicked (Edit> Paste); my book then appeared in the file as an ePub file.

6) On the nook itself, I opened my library, went to the settings, pressed refresh, and was asked to enter my Adoboe authorization ID. 

7) It then asks you how you want to open it (Reader vs. Overdrive).  I selected Reader, and it opened right up.

Good luck!

I just happened to come across a similar problem with my mother's new Nook HD for her books she checks out through the library. HOWEVER, we did find that B&N has available through their site free apps for both libraries that use Overdrive Media Console as well as libraries that use the 3M Cloud Library. All you need to do is download these free apps to be able to directly download from your library's site into your Nook.

Overdrive Media Console: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/overdrive-media-console-overdrive-inc/1113021293

3M Cloud Library: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/3m-cloud-library-3m-company/1113021300

Once you have downloaded the correct app for your local library you can access the app in with all of your other apps. Within the app it's self is where you can find your library books. My mother was so excited to find out we could do this. She is good with a computer but it takes her a few times to learn how to do the file transfers/drag&drop so for a direct download to be available is a really big relief to her not having to learn something new and complicated.

As far as books from other sites, I'm not sure that these apps would download them, however I haven't had a chance to test that theory out.

Hope this helps some of you out and wishing you all the best.

Honestly, the drag and drop solution isn't an issue for me - not much more effort than dragging and dropping within ADE. The worst thing is that my non-techie DH is "trained" on ADE/Nook Simple Touch. He's not very comfortable with Windows Explorer.  It would be so much nicer if they could make the tablet-type devices work within ADE.

Hi all,

I just had a lengthy online chat session with a member of the B&N Digital Support team. After some tiresome unsuccessful tries at different solutions, here are the instructions I received for getting books from ADE to your NookHD/NookHD+:

We changed our file transfer method to a new one (Media File Transfer Protocol), which is not recognized by desktop ADE yet.

To activate books on NOOK HD devices, users will have to:

1. Transfer ADE books from desktop (User/Documents/Digital Editions folder) to device using our file transfer (drag & drop)

2. They will appear in Library -> My Files

3. Connect to Wi-Fi with good-to-excellent signal strength

4. Tap on the book to open

5. Input their ADE account credentials into the credential form (username in the first field and password in the second)

6. Press "OK" button

7. Book will open

8. All the subsequent books from the same ADE account will open after this (user will no longer need to perform all the steps or have Wi-Fi, just transfer books to device and tap on them

Or, 1. Connect to Wi-Fi with good-to-excellent signal strength

2. Go to Settings ->Account Settings -> Adobe Digital Editions

3. Tap on "Add User" button

4. Input their ADE account credentials into the credential form (username in the first field and password in the second)

5. Press "OK" button

6. Transfer ADE books from desktop (User/Documents/Digital Editions folder) to device using our file transfer (drag & drop)

7. They will appear in Library -> My Files

8. Tap on any file -> it will open

I then proceeded to ask him the following:

Since this additional step does make the process LESS convenient, do you know if there are any plans to make the process more like it was before? Essentially to make the NookHD show up in ADE for direct transfers like all the previous devices?

His response: Sorry we do not have information regarding that. It seems that the NOOK developer integrated ADE on the device so you may no longer need to use ADE to transfer the items from the computer to the NOOK.

I was able to use this method to get books on there. Hope this helps you guys. Be interested to hear your feedback.