Good morning readers. I have just spent a very frustrating morning and am hoping my experiences will help some of you save some time and irritation. A few days ago, I borrowed an ebook from the library, via Overdrive. Overdrive uses Adobe DRM (digital rights management) as its system to prevent your copying/sharing the books you’ve borrowed. What it means, essentially, is that you must go through the Adobe Digital Editions software to transfer your books to your ereader. The process goes something like this: Download Adobe Digital Editions to your PC or Mac Authorise ADE with an Adobe account (on the Mac it’s under the Help menu) – you may need to set one up if you don’t have one In ADE authorize each device you wish to use (it’s one of the right click menu items) When you borrow (or in some cases buy) a book it will download an ACSM file which when clicked will open the book in ADE. Transfer the book via ADE to your device via USB. Once it’s set up, in future steps 4 and 5 are all that are needed to read the book on your device. Anyway, when I borrowed the book…
Good morning readers. I have just spent a very frustrating morning and am hoping my experiences will help some of you save some time and irritation. A few days ago, I borrowed an ebook from the library, via Overdrive. Overdrive uses Adobe DRM (digital rights management) as its system to prevent your copying/sharing the books you’ve borrowed. What it means, essentially, is that you must go through the Adobe Digital Editions software to transfer your books to your ereader. The process goes something like this: Download Adobe Digital Editions to your PC or Mac Authorise ADE with an Adobe account (on the Mac it’s under the Help menu) – you may need to set one up if you don’t have one In ADE authorize each device you wish to use (it’s one of the right click menu items) When you borrow (or in some cases buy) a book it will download an ACSM file which when clicked will open the book in ADE. Transfer the book via ADE to your device via USB. Once it’s set up, in future steps 4 and 5 are all that are needed to read the book on your device. Anyway, when I borrowed the book…