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Connecting your All-New NOOK to your desktop will allow you to charge the device and load your own content (not content purchased from BN.COM) onto the device. However, to purchase content from BN.COM you have two options:
1) Visit NOOKbooks.com and shop for content via your PC or Mac. Once content is purchased, however, you'll need to locate a WiFi hotspot (available at many places you already frequent - such as Barnes & Noble stores, McDonald's and Starbucks, to name a few) to download the content for reading. Once you've downloaded the content though, you'll no longer need a WiFi signal to read the content on the device.
2) You can locate a WiFi hotspot immediately and use the WiFi signal to purchase content directly on the device and it will download automatically.