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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
Go to the acsm file on your hard-drive. Right click on it and you should have an "open with" option. Select Adobe Digital Edition. That should launch ADE and import the book.
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I've observed that answers from the Windows world almost always feature Windows-centric actions. That is, answers center on how to use Windows software, not on what is actually happening.
Right clicking doesn't tell me how the file is passed to to ADE. Fortunately, I know to search the registry for the appropriate
shell variable that contains the command syntax that Windows uses when it opens something. In this case, it simply passes it on the ADE command line with no switch. Though I never got that to work, either in Wine or my Windows virtual machine.
Sorry. I don't mean to gripe at you for trying to help me. I'm just mentioning an observation.
I finally got the book transferred to my Sony Touch and am reading it. (Yeah!)
But I'm very disappointed at the process. The only way I could do it was to us the [very insecure] Internet Explorer browser in my WindowsXP virtual machine (in VirtualBox on Fedora Linux). I downloaded the book again from Borders and the Sony Reader Library application (which I also installed) popped up.
From there it was not at all obvious how to get it to my device. I fumbled around for a while before I found I could right click on the book and choose
copy and then right click on the device (but not it's directories) and choose
paste. There is no way to use a menu to transfer it. And of course there is no way to script it.
This is very inconvenient. I'm going to work on getting the DRM stripping thing working and then working smoothly so I can buy books and transfer them easily to my reader.