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Now-here’s an Elon Musk angle beyond the book.
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On top of that, incompatibilities aren’t the only issues with Digital Editions. Adobe has had to fix Grand Canyon-sized privacy holes in the software, and, separately, its laxness enabled hackers to steal zillions of passwords. Digital Editions should just work. Both OverDrive and Kobo have technical resources aplenty, and Adobe looks more inept than ever if it can’t even get Digital Editions playing well with the offerings of the big boys. I suppose Adobe could always try to shift the blame for my previous travails to OverDrive or Kobo. Success! In replacing the earlier DRM-infested copy, I might have indulged in overkill. So I deauthorized Adobe Editions from 4.5.1 from my desktop, uninstalled it, downloaded ADE 3, authorized it, used the normal USB connection to wipe out the unreadable copy of the Elon Musk bio on my Kobo, then replaced the book with a freshly downloaded one from the Alexandria Library. Victimized Kobo owners should switch from Adobe Digital Editions 4 or 4.5.1, whatever, back to to 3.
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Luckily, buried in Adobe forums, an answer to my DRM issue of the moment existed from Jader4Paul, apparently not an Adobe employee and thus free to speak the truth. in open-mindedness but still has a long way to go. But if nothing else, maybe those in Europe and elsewhere can start caring as much about Adobe and other DRM purveyors as legislative targets as they do about Amazon-whether the books involved are for sale or for library use. Shouldn’t Adobe have fixed the problem by the time it released 4.5.1, months later? Isn’t this yet another indication of the need for consumer protection laws to safeguard us against the overzealous and sloppy implementation of DRM? Our do-nothing politicians in the U.S. The desperate dialogue mainly dated back to 2014 and involved Adobe 4.0. An Adobe victim told of being bounced back and forth between OverDrive and Adobe, and a second sufferer said the issue had defied the Kobo support desk. I think of cash-strapped public libraries. In my dream world, they could successfully sue Adobe for countless millions in tech support costs and maybe send a few executives to the electric chair along the way after good, sound waterboardings and whip-lashings (just joking). Meanwhile, however, as a Kobo owner and Adobe victim, I have plenty of company if I go by a quick Googling around.
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OverDrive soon will let you download public library books as if they were Kobo books, just as you can now request Kindle books through OverDrive and do the actual download via Amazon. You use it not just to read library e-books and others but also to transfer them to your Kobo e-reader or other ADE-compatible gadget. For novices who don’t know, Adobe Digital Editions runs on your desktop or laptop or other device.
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I’ll tell you how I finally succeeded, but let me interrupt with a little background. The latest reminder came yesterday in my struggle to read a library copy of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance. After I updated from Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 to 4.5.1, my Kobo stubbornly refused to open up this OverDrive book “protected” with Adobe. I don’t care about any new products maybe on the way. So shouldn’t I use my Kobo Aura H2O instead to enjoy OverDrive library books from the public library here in Alexandria, Virginia, despite the hassles of Adobe DRM? The Kobo e-reader even has a font-weight slider to adjust the level of bold.Īh! But a nasty catch ensnares some and perhaps all Kobo e-reader owners checking out OverDrive books from libraries. The news about Adobe DRM is still dismal for them. Just as Amazon disses e-book-lovers who beg for the bold option, Adobe remains passionately apathetic about all the DRM pain inflicted on us. My Amazon Kindles, even the $290 Oasis, won’t do all-text bold regardless of all the pleas from me and others to and friends.