Hi Esther, Thanks very much for posting this. While I was aware of the preview version of Adobe Edition, I had not downloaded it until now. Does this mean that books I wish to borrow from my library can be read with this package? I have the Overdrive app on my iPhone, will Adobe Digital Edition read the same titles as will the Overdrive software? Finally, can I download books directly from Adobe Digital Edition? I'm assuming I have to register with my local library in order to accomplish any downloads? Thanks.
Les On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:01 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On the Mac we've been using Adobe Digital Editions Preview to read > Kobo Books ePub files with DRM. This is the version they've been > developing for screen reader use, and there is an accessible Windows > version, too, that you can download from this URL: > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/digitaleditions1-8.html > Make sure that you get the Preview version from the above web site. > The latest regular version of Adobe Digital Editions uses flash, and > is not accessible. Download the ePub version of the book from your > account at the Kobo Books web site and open it in this app. You can't > navigate by word, character or line within the app, but on the Mac we > can use the VoiceOver shortcut for copy last spoken phrase to > clipboard (VO-Shift-c) and then paste the page that was read into > TextEdit, where all navigation modes are supported. > > Adobe Digital Editions Preview will also work on eBooks downloaded > from libraries with the OverDrive Media Console app. Again, you would > separately download a copy of the eBook you've borrowed through the > web site for your library. The ADE DRM is the most commonly used > digital rights management format, so the app is also likely to work > for ePub books from other sources. Note that iBooks uses another form > of Digital rights management called FairPlay 2, and this app will it > read those files. I don't know of any application that will read > iBooks on a computer, regardless of accessibility. I'm not familiar > with Kobo Desktop. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Aug 14, 2:57 pm, Keith Bundy <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know that Kobo Books is accessible with VO on the iPhone. I see that >> one can read Kobo books from computers as well. Does anyone know if >> Kobo Desktop for Windows PC is accessible? >> >> Keith >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
