I find your sig line there more than a little depressing. I hate to think that something as simple as an e-book reader is still beyond many folks. Now I know lots of people who say they don’t understand the first thing about computers but still manage to do email, web browsing, and basic word processing. I would hope that using an e-book reader wouldn’t be any harder.
What kinds of problems do you see people typically having with Nooks? And is it really with the nook itself or with Overdrive & Adobe Digital Editions? I found those a bit kludgy to get set up on my PC. I would hope it’s easier to do with the Nook.
(I’m actually a Kindle owner myself, so I have no first hand experience with using Overdrive and Nook together. But I publish some documents on the web in different formats, and have recently added EPUB and MOBI formats, so I’m curious about what the more common stumbling blocks might be.)
The main problem is that many people have been so completely and happily sold by the marketing of these devices and their Shiny Object status that they are honestly taken by surprise that their is actually more than one step to the process of downloading a title and transferring it to the portable device.
The very few people I’ve encountered who seemed to at least understand that there might be an actual process going in grasp it very quickly. It’s the people who when I say, “We need to start by going to the library’s web site …” respond, “Oh, no, I don’t know anything about using the computer.”
Secondarily are the people who think that eBooks are somehow new and that Kindle invented them and have no concept that all the eBook/eAudiobook vendors are set up to get the media to your PC first and foremost and to your portable device as an afterthought.
I couldn’t get Overdrive to work on the windows 7 laptop or the xp desktop. I kept getting some media player copyright error when I’d try to download. I tried the suggested update to no avail. I futzed with it over and over then went to the library to ask for help, but nobody there could help and referred me to the overdrive help site which already hadn’t helped. At which point I cried Uncle and gave up.