Hi Les, If you've used the OverDrive Media Console app on your iPhone to download either eBooks or audiobooks to your iOS device, you had to get a library card account number from your local library for borrowing. You should be able to read any downloadable eBooks that you could read in the OverDrive Media Console app in Adobe Digital Editions Preview on your computer, but you'll want to download the files directly from your local library's web site to your computer via your login account, just as Keith would have to download ePub files for the Kobo books he wants to read on his computer by logging into his Kobo account through his web browser. You can find the OverDrive web page for your local library on the web similar to the way you find and add your library within the app, by going to the OverDrive classic search page at: http://search.overdrive.com/classic/ If you type in your zip code into the text box under the section for "Search Libraries by Zip Code" and press enter, you'll get a page of links to the OverDrive web pages for your nearest libraries. You can browse and borrow books for your account either through the iPhone app or through that web page for your library. Ebooks or audiobooks that you place into your cart and check out then become available on your account's bookshelf, and content can be downloaded either into the app on your iPhone or to your computer by accessing the bookshelf link on the web page or within the app.
You don't download your books directly from within the Adobe Digital Editions Preview app; this app is an eBook reader, and is like using a music playing app. You add downloaded eBooks to it, or open the books in this app, and it maintains a library of your books. But the content can be books that you bought from web sites, from Kobo Books, for the Barnes and Noble Nook eReader, or downloaded from your library. It just has to be an eBook that is compatible with Adobe's DRM -- so it can't be an iBook or Kindle book, or some other proprietary format specific to a particular eReader. Also be aware that some free public domain eBooks in PDF format may be image scans, and not accessible. If you have further questions, you should probably take them up on one of the Mac lists. You can also search the archives of both the viphone and macvisionaries lists for earlier discussion about OverDrive and Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Bryan Jones posted about OverDrive (in both groups) a while back. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 14, 7:01 pm, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > <snip> -- 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.
