|
I have one more suggestion for you. My experience with virtual machines is that inside the virtual environment it functions similar to how the operating system would on a regular machine. It's been over a year since I've transferred books to my reader that way (since there is now Sony Mac software), but I did a testcase for you.
I used VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run a Windows XP virtual machine. On my Windows XP virtual machine, I have installed Adobe Digital Editions for PC, Sony Reader Library for PC and Internet Explorer. They are all authorized to the same Adobe and Sony accounts as my ereader (as are my Mac versions of the same software). I attached my ereader to my computer via USB, and it shows up as an E: drive in My Computer on the Windows XP virtual machine. I then opened IE and logged into the Borders website and went to My eBooks Library. I selected a book to "Download EPUB". When prompted I chose the option to Save which puts the acsm file on my hard-drive. I opened up the download folder with Windows Explorer on my virtual machine and then right-clicked on the acsm file and selected Open With > ADE. This action then autolaunched ADE, autoimported the EPUB file into ADE and it autosaved a copy of the EPUB file into the folder "My Documents > My Digital Editions" on my computer. On the other hand, when downloading from the Borders website, I could have selected the option 'Open" and it would have done the same actions above to autolaunch ADE, autoimport and autosave the EPUB file into the same folder.
Back when I used to use ADE for PC, I recall that my ereader would show up within the ADE software as a device and then I could move books in the ADE Library over to the ereader easily. During this test for you, I could view the downloaded book just fine within ADE, but my ereader didn't show up in ADE. No worries because I know it's already authorized to the same account as ADE. Instead I closed ADE. Inside the Windows virtual machine, I opened up Windows Explorer and copied over the EPUB file from "My Documents > Digital Editions" to "E:database>media>books" on my ereader. Then I ejected my reader from the virtual machine. I disconnected the USB cable. I waited for the book to load and the ereader to show the Home screen. I was then able to open and view my book just fine.
I should note that I have my computer partitioned such that I have Mac OS X on one partition and Windows XP installed on the other partition. When I open the Virtual Machine on the Mac side, I point to this other partition. It might make the file structure and sharing different from how you are running your Virtual Machine. Anyway, perhaps it gives you some other ideas to try that are simpler than the method that you found. Good luck!
|