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Thank you, lotrfan and jlg432, for taking the time to explain all that.
As far as I know, there is no such explanation on the MobileRead Wiki. There is an article on Adobe's DRM, but not in such clear and practical terms.
Now, armed with your knowledge, I'd like to describe the steps my wife and I had to go through to purchase and install an ADE-DRM epub on the Canadian PDN:
1. My wife logged into Renaud-Bray's online bookstore with her Linux laptop, created an account, chose a book, and paid with a credit card. But she didn't download it to her Linux PC.
2. I went to Adobe Digital Editions with my Windows PC, created an account, downloaded and installed the ADE program on my Windows PC. (There is a Mac version, but none for Linux).
3. I connected the PDN by USB to my Windows PC, and allowed it as an ereader device in the ADE program.
4. My wife logged into her Renaud-Bray account and downloaded - not the epub book, but a key file called URLLink .ascm - to the download directory of my Windows PC.
5. The ADE program instantly recognized the key file, and downloaded the ebook to my PC in the \My Documents\My Digital Editions folder.
6. The ADE program displayed the new book in its virtual bookshelf.
7. I dragged the image of the book from the ADE bookshelf to the icon of the connected PDN.
8. I disconnected the PDN and rebooted it (It had frozen when disconnecting from the PC).
9. My wife opened the Kobo reader on her PDN, but the new book was not there.
10. I hunted for the epub file on the PDN, using the EStrongs File Manager. It was not in the external SDHC card, but in /system/media/sdcard/Digital Editions, in the internal memory card.
11. I copied the epub file to the folder /system/media/sdcard/Ebooks/Kobo folder.
12. My wife opened the Kobo reader again. The newly-purchased book was still not there.
13. In desperation, I rebooted the PDN again.
14. My wife opened the Kobo reader again. Finally, the book was there, albeit with no
cover art.
What a hassle. How many of those steps do you suppose a semi-computer-literate person like my wife have taken on their own?
Is there an easier way?
Were any of those 14 steps unnecessary?
Is there a more user-friendly ereader available for the Canadian PDN's Android 1.5, that could find the epub in the /system/media/sdcard/Digital Editions folder and open it there, and also handle the ADE DRM?
The best I can hope for is that the Kobo online bookstore wakes up and realizes it's a
Canadian company formed with Chapters/Indigo, and that those stores have a well-stocked French catalogue to add to the Kobo catalogue.
But barring that, how can I make the ereading experience simpler for my wife on her
Canadian Pandigital Novel?
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