•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.

•Deletes information used to unlock DRM-secured content. To open the content on the unregistered NOOK, you will need to enter your first name, last name, and default credit card one time. If you purchased the content with different default credit cards, you will need to enter

NOOK User Guide

Registering your NOOK

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