On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/31/2018 09:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> Multnomah County (and other) libraries offer ebooks that >> are readable only with Windoze or MacOS client software. >> Some linux books are only available in this form. :-( >> >> Has anyone read library ebooks with this client software >> running in a Virtualbox or Vmware virtual machine? >> How well does it work? Tips and suggestions? >> > > Clackamas County uses Library2Go: > > https://library2go.overdrive.com/ > > While they offer various e-book formats, they also offer "Read now in > browser." I tried figuring out how to get one of the other formats to work > without success, but I have no problem with the browser version. I'd be > surprised if Washington and Multnomah counties didn't have something > similar. > > I'm in Multnomah County, and have never had a problem with reading library e-books in my browser. Or on an android tablet. I remember trying to get calibre to decode an epub for me, but failing. As I remember, you have to give it the key that overdrive installed for you. I obviously didn't have that on my linux box, and I couldn't find it on my tablet. I wonder if it would work to install overdrive on a vm just to get the key and use that with calibre under linux to decode the books. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
