You should be able to read it on your iPad. Either with adobe digital editions or if you library uses overdrive, their app.
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meara - Aug 20, 2012 12:17:34 pm PDT #20752 of 25501
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.
Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 2:44:40 pm PDT #20758 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok. Anyone got a good, free, DRM-stripping tool for ADE PDF files? This is so fucking annoying.
[edit: Because apparently ADE files with DRM can *only* be read in ADE and not on any eReader devices. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL.]
Cass - Aug 20, 2012 2:51:23 pm PDT #20759 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Does OverDrive have a way to return library books early? I just started using it earlier today and for audiobooks so I don't know the answer. But the library ebooks that I get the files through the Kindle page after I check them out, I can return them early.
OverDrive claims you can in various ways...
Jessica - Aug 20, 2012 2:52:15 pm PDT #20760 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Honestly, it doesn't matter - I have the PDF now, and I'd be having the same issue with the ePub version.
Liese S. - Aug 20, 2012 3:11:48 pm PDT #20761 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I can return my overdrive books early, through ADE. I try to do it conscientiously because I'm such a fast reader and I always have time left when I'm done, and lots of them are on waitlists.