'Safe'
Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!
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.
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.]
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...
Honestly, it doesn't matter - I have the PDF now, and I'd be having the same issue with the ePub version.
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.
Jessica, google "drm removal calibre" and your first hit is a blog that has tools to remove all manner of eBook DRM by installing Calibre plugins. I believe ADE PDFs are on there (before Kindle editions were an Overdrive option, I used this to read library books.)
JESSE BROKE NATTER _ SEND HELP!!
Gris is about the business. I sure did suck that whole page into evernote to use later.
I archived all my old Peanut Press books using those instructions. Thanks Gris!
This is a long shot.
I work with a database written in some program that helps list our classes on the web. I have some wacky Django interface to it, because IT was sick of writing in code every time I had to update the web. There is a fundamental error way it is written, there is a table called "Courses" which contains the course descriptions and all the non-changing info about the class that connects to different tables-- books, dates, rooms etc. But the way it is built every time you add a new instance, you have to re-creat the course for the semester, and type in the course desrcription and everything else again. They you have to add the teacher (which sort or makes sense, the books, etc. Which is annoying because there is no easy way to do it.
Then, there is some sort of other "web programming" language on our page that makes it look like this:
What happens is that when I add an instance, I loose the books and have to add them back again. But which instance I need to tie them to seems random. On this page, the books were showing and I his Summer 2012 and Spring 2012-- then I went to another page, came back to this one, and the books were gone. So then I added the books to Fall 2012- and they did not show. So then I added them to Spring 2012, and now they show. But on other pages, I might have to add them to different semesters- there is no logic.
It is annoying to add the books to all semesters showing because I have to retype them every time, there is no "copy"