ADOBE Reader, Digital Editions, and nook

I feel for you!  I'm having the same problem.  After several weeks of trying to get some answers from ADE, (they didn't know anything, or the site was down, or they just tossed me off into this never ending spiral to nothing), I finally got a somewhat coherant response to this problem. 

Now, I have about 600 ebooks, some from Barnes and Noble, some from a Christian book store, which has really helped me! and some from Project Gutenberg, etc.  I have school books, commentaries, reference books, and lots of childrens books (I homeschool).  Needless to say, I have already downloaded them onto ADE several times and they still disappear, but who wants to do that !? 

ADE's response is to disable ADE and reinstall it.  They didn't give any reasons for the missing books or for why ADE will no longer allow books to go into my Nook.  Now my Nook is saying that I don't have permission to open many books.   I wonder how much time these people would spend to fool around knowing that it probably won't work.

MY  QUESTION  NOW  IS:  Do I really have to put each one (other than B&N) back into ADE, and then again, individually, into my Nook?   I simply can't imagine doing that.  This was supposed to make my life easier.  I think I could have built bookshelves in the same amount of time.

I don't blame ADE for all the problems.  Barnes and Noble is poor in their instructions and left out much needed information, for the NOOK.   Christianbook.com had to show me how to download their books.  I never left click on "download", but right click instead, then click on "save link as".  A box pops up allowing me to write in the name (rather than a number) and where I want it to go (desktop).  I click on "save".

For "ascm" files, I just right click on "open" (from the desktop) and it automatically goes into ADE.  They are stored on the computer just as "epub" files are.  The ascm file icon must be deleted each time, or you can click on "replace" when the box pops up.  For "epub" files, I go into ADE and click on the little arrow by Library, and click on "Add item".  My computer opens a file with my "epubs" listed on the desktop.  I just click on whatever I want, whether one book, or many, and click "add". 

I have a Mac with Firefox, and everything is up to date.  When I want to select more than one book or file, I click on the first book, then go down to the last one, press "shift" and click the last book.   Unfortunately, we can't do that with the Nook.   ADE is so small on my screen that it is hard to read, and my mouse wiggles around quite a bit.  So, to put books back on my Nook, it will be a pain.

I did figure out, tho', to put books into one ereader and not mess with another, make sure the Wi-fi is off on the others.  I bought a Nook for my mom and daughter, but as they read different stuff, I learned the hard way, that I needed to load or archive books on each one separately.  Now they must keep their Wi-fi off unless they have a major change, which I will help them do.  (Neither one needs all the school books or children's books . . . Except for Jack and Jill, which every parent should read.)

I am still not sure how to fix my problems, but rest assured, I WILL !    I'm all for simplifying.  It makes it more confusing that Macs and PCs have different ways to do all this.   I'm glad I have a Mac.

I will let you know when I figure the rest out.

Wanda