Unshelved!

Arggghhhh!!!  I love my Nook, I truly do. It saves me tons of shelf space and I no longer have to carry a suitcase of books when I travel. But...arggghhhh!  Never change your email account if you're dealing with a registered Nook.

I've had my Nook for over a year. It contains pages and pages of books. I have a dreadful memory, so I spent hours one day placing all those books on shelves with genre labels so I knew where to find my Patricia Briggs without scrolling through ten pages hunting. And I'd remember Juliet Blackwell writes paranormal mystery. And I could look up that great steampunk book I read a year ago. And most important, I'd put all my new material on a shelf all its own so anytime I wanted a new book, voila, there was a selection.


And then I got tired of arguing with AOL and its quirks and decided to change my email address. It seemed innocent enough at the time--sign in to my account at B&N, use the little form to change my address, and voila! Next thing I knew, my Nook would no longer pick up my downloads. I screamed until someone heard me and said I had to unregister my Nook and re-register under the new email. All right, with a lot of grumbling, I figured out how to do that.

And now all my beautiful shelves are gone, gone GONE!  Hundreds of books scattered all over the room, and I"m leaving for California on Thursday. I'll never remember which ones I've read and which ones I haven't much less remember if they're historical or contemporary or somewhere in between. And I don't have time to sort it all out!  Sigh, my life is a permanent Mercury retrograde.

Anyone here going to the RT conference? If so, I'll see you there. I haven't figured out how to sign e-books yet, but EVIL GENIUS trading cards will be available!  And dang, I still can't make that Amazon Associate button work on Firefox!