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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.)
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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"
Oh, and I think the problem is there is literally no "one to many" relations, so that everything on the page, even the things that appear once (like course description) are in the database as many times as there have been instances of classes, and I have no idea how the page chooses which one is showing. It seems random, because sometimes I have typos in one, so I can tell what is showing up.
It sound like there are problems both in the database and in the cgi that takes the information from the database. Unfortunately, I can recognize that without being able to fix it. It sounds like you should have an actual content management system, but I have dealt with IT departments before that didn't want anyone touching their precious code.