Yet another reason to not buy ebooks from a store that doesn't let you have the files available locally in a way that you can still use them once the reader/hardware goes away.
This is why I moved from Nooks to Kobos -- B&N dropped mac support so any new purchase could vanish at any time, which sucks. I am happy to exchange money for ebooks (and, looking at my library, do a bit more than I probably ought) but I would like to keep reading them into the future.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963663/barnes-and-noble-nook-old-models-support-store-shutdown
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