Thread: Augen The Book: Preliminary evaluations
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:53 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by VentureForth View Post
Stop the presses! Allhats over in the Augen forum mentioned this, but I thought it was a fluke, until it happened to me. THIS is a show stopper so far as I am concerned (and yes, I have reported it to the proper authorities).

Last night I bought and paid for a John Grisham book, "The Associate," from booksamillion.com. I was able to save it to my computer and open it with Adobe Digital Editions without any problem. The book reads fine on Digital Editions.

I then used Calibre to move the book to The Book. The Book accepted the DRM without any problems and at first glance, the book appeared normal on the screen. However, after about page 7, I noticed that there were paragraphs that were being skipped when I moved to the next page. As you can with non-DRM books, I attempted to change the zoom, but on protected books the options are limited to Original, Fit to Screen, Fit to Height, Fit to Width or Zoom. None of these options would reveal the missing paragraphs. Can't change the font or font size.

I again went back to Digital Editions on my PC and there was no discrepancy.

I can handle the little bugs, the irritations, the nuances, and quirks, but when I cannot read books that I have bought and paid for, it was the first time I considered returning my Book.

I haven't yet. There shall be a viable solution!
I've mentioned this in several of the Augen "The Book" threads on MobileRead. It's not an isolated fluke. While people have been carping about wifi and browsers and SD card issues, this is the BIG BUG. "The Book" can't handle legally obtained Adobe DRM'ed epub files. The current firmware sees them as PDFs instead of as epubs. Until this is corrected, your only option is to strip the DRM from your epub file and to transfer it without using Adobe Digital Editions. (That Calibre can transfer DRM'ed content is news to me.) This is Augen's problem, not Adobe's. I have no such issues with transferring Adobe DRM'ed content to my Sony Reader. This is why I've been submitting service tickets to Augen Customer Support and urging others to do so.
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