How to Buy American ebooks in China for the nook?
December 28, 2011 10:40 AM Subscribe
How can you buy books and apps for a Nook in China through a VPN?
Someone I know got a Nook for Christmas but he lives in China right now and apparently you can only buy content through the B&N website while physically being in the USA.
He has the Astrill VPN but that didn't work. Astrill support said something about having to install a different Android system since the Nook doesn't have a regular way to do this.
Someone I know got a Nook for Christmas but he lives in China right now and apparently you can only buy content through the B&N website while physically being in the USA.
He has the Astrill VPN but that didn't work. Astrill support said something about having to install a different Android system since the Nook doesn't have a regular way to do this.
My mother in Australia has a nook. She uses my account on the B&N website as I'm in the US. She can't download books using WiFi but has no problems downloading from the site to a computer and then copying them to her nook using Calibre. OK when I say she has no problem she has no problem getting my brother to do it for her, but it is doable that way.
posted by wwax at 12:18 PM on December 28, 2011
posted by wwax at 12:18 PM on December 28, 2011
OH also its only a nook touch so I am not sure how android platforms would effect things or what VPN is so if I have missed some hugely technical detail I apologize. The staff at B&N are very helpful so if you can pop into a store and ask someone there directly for your friend they might have suggestions, though you might have to keep asking until you get someone that actually knows more than trying to sell them which is what we had to do.
posted by wwax at 12:22 PM on December 28, 2011
posted by wwax at 12:22 PM on December 28, 2011
Assuming the problem is that the Nook Color doesn't provide the normal Android VPN settings, I would try out a third-party VPN app, such as "5 VPN". If the OS has been modified to remove any VPN support, this still won't work.
It looks like Astrill offers OpenVPN. There is an OpenVPN installer for Android, but I haven't used it, so I can't confirm it works.
posted by mad bomber what bombs at midnight at 1:12 PM on December 28, 2011
It looks like Astrill offers OpenVPN. There is an OpenVPN installer for Android, but I haven't used it, so I can't confirm it works.
posted by mad bomber what bombs at midnight at 1:12 PM on December 28, 2011
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posted by clockworkjoe at 11:58 AM on December 28, 2011