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Connect your NOOK Tablet to your computer. A screen on your computer
➌
appears, telling you that you need to authorize the NOOK to use Adobe
Digital Editions. Click Authorize Device. After a moment, your NOOK is
authorized.
A new shelf appears on the Adobe Digital Editions screen titled My NOOK.
Drag the book you just borrowed to this shelf.
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Disconnect your NOOK Tablet from your computer. The book won't
➎
appear on a shelf in your Library. Instead, you have to open it as a file. In
the Library, tap "my stuff"➝My Files, and in the My NOOK section, you'll
see a Digital Editions folder. Tap it.
Look for the file name of the book you just transferred, for example,
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Dombey_and_Son.epub. It will end in .epub or .pdf. Tap it.
The book opens. You can now read it just as you can any other book on
your NOOK.
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