[jlg432]

I decided to play around (experiment) with my unit after my above post.

I formatted a 4 gig sd card. Copied Int Mem to PC harddrive. Copied the .adobe.... folder plus the Digital Editions(DE) folder to the new card. (these were the ADE files that worked fine from Int. Memory and talked to my ADE-PC software.

So copied both folders to the SD card and then removed the sd card from the JB and I was able to see the card via ADE-PC and move files to it when connected throught an SD card reader/writer. I then returned the card to the JB (all precautions were followed when transferring the card between devices). I was able to access the ADE ebooks added to the card through the JB.

At one point I had both Card and JB viewable to ADE-PC when connected via USB cable (Card in JB).

I then decided to delete the .adobe... folder from Int Memory as I had a copy on the SD card. I also deleted the DE folder from Int memory - again because it resides on the card.

I was now unable to open a DRM ADE epub book. It saw the file but would give the "Fail to Open" error message.

No problem I thought. I'll just copy back the .adobe... folder back to Int Memory. Tried to open the test books I wasn't able to. I did a reset and cold boot. Still unable to open the test books on the card or Int Memory.

I copied back my back-up folders (from the HDD) that had the same test books involded and worked before messing around.

Nope, opening the Test books located in Int mem still generated the the same failure.

I then decided to hook up to the PC and transfer fresh copies of the test books. ADE-PC displayed the JB shelf. I could open the books within ADE-PC that resided on the JB but I could no longer transfer any books over to the JB. It gave me the message "Permission to copy not available" or something to that affect. It didn't mind me deleeting the test books from the JB via ADE-PC.

So I decided to back track and try again - several resets, FW .35a installs, even a couple of "Restore Default" and more resets, FW installs, adobe & DE folders copied back from backups. Still no go. In all cases I was also trying to get ADE-PC to treat the JB as un-authorized but couldn't. It would see the JB. I even did a re-install of ADE-PC to see if that would work. It didn't.

So I took the plunge and went from .35a to .35m. I was a little nervous at first.
Not because the update might not work as I have done several within the .35a range. I was nervous that the update may not be that great and I might end up with a degraded unit.

Wow FW .35m is much better than .35a because it restored the "Find" function within a book only now it is called "Content Search". The same has been added to the PDF reader.
The other big change for epub from .35a to .35m is the default size on opening - it use to be zoom-200% and now it is Font-size 12 Instead of a zoom percentage. I assume this is to fix the "Cover" from being opened too big - but now you have to resize text to be able to read. Oh well I guess you cannot please everyone. I also noticed that the ePub now displays Serif fonts (I guess whatever is built into the doc.).

Still missing Dictionary access in both ePub and PDF. PDF under JB never had Dictionary but ePub under FW .34 did. PDF Refow function was added with FW .35a>.

I was still unable to get the JB to be treated as a new device so that I can re-authorize it. After messing around some more I desided to do another "restore default" and I went to see what that had done to the .adobe.. folder.

Under the prior .35a FW it would delete all files inside the "adobe..." folder which would cause ADE-PC not to see the JB.
but
Under FW .35m it looks like it gets rid of the "activation.xlm" file only and leaves the other there. On connecting up to ADE-PC I received the rquest to authorize the JB and full access to all ADE DRM ebooks was restored.

The FW is V0.35m software and Patch is at V18.

I cannot verify the other DRM formats both B&N one is an ePub and the other is pdb but will it read a non DRM pdb book? I check that out.

John