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Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 11:17:39 am PDT #20748 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ok. I just downloaded a book from the library as an Adobe PDF, figuring it would be a PDF file I could put on my Kindle.

Unfortunately, it is an ACSM file which I gather from the intertubes is some kind of DRM wrapper. Calibre doesn't recognise it as an eBook format.

Anyone know how I can get this dang thing on my Kindle? (Or my iPad, I suppose. But I'd prefer the Kindle.)

Consuela - Aug 20, 2012 11:24:13 am PDT #20749 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Calibre doesn't recognise it as an eBook format.

Yikes, that's not promising. I wonder if there's any kind of extension that might help.

le nubian - Aug 20, 2012 11:31:21 am PDT #20750 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

so, here is what calibre's faq is saying about it:

[link]

sounds like you need to download a program and export it as epub

Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 11:41:54 am PDT #20751 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

AHA - ok, apparently the problem is I don't have Adobe Digital Editions. The ACSM file isn't the book at all, it's just a link that Adobe Digital Editions reads to connect to the server. What a stupid system.

meara - Aug 20, 2012 12:17:34 pm PDT #20752 of 25501

You should be able to read it on your iPad. Either with adobe digital editions or if you library uses overdrive, their app.

Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 12:35:59 pm PDT #20753 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Huh. Well that didn't work. Digital Editions doesn't recognize it either.

le nubian - Aug 20, 2012 12:46:14 pm PDT #20754 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

at this point, I think they are just fucking with you.

Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 2:09:27 pm PDT #20755 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There are THREE YEARS of Adobe forum posts on this problem - apparently ADE is just a shitty piece of software with broken DRM.

Crap, I wonder if there's a way to "exchange" the eBook I borrowed for the ePub version instead. Probably not.

Consuela - Aug 20, 2012 2:32:57 pm PDT #20756 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Jessica, if you borrowed it, does the library have another version available?

Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 2:39:14 pm PDT #20757 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I *finally* got it to work by uninstalling ADE, reinstalling it, and redownloading the acsm file from the library.

Now that I have the actual PDF, Calibre is recognizing it and hopefully will be able to email ot to my Kindle.

There's no mechanism for "exchanging" an eBook with Overdrive, and you can't have more than one copy of an eBook checked out a a time, so the only way to get the ePub version instead of the PDF would be to wait out the two weeks and then get back on the hold list.

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