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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I guess I don't follow what you are trying to do. The JBL has the activation
files, in as much as it needs any, built into the Adobe Reader Mobile software
that is embedded into the firmware update. The ADE software that you install
on your PC needs to be "activated/authorized" to provide the anchor Id
(Adobe ID) it needs in the process and allow the ADE software to "Authorize"
devices. The JBL's embedded Adobe Reader Mobile software appears to use
the data that the ADE program on your PC writes into the "manifest.xml" when
it both creates the file and when it updates it for each ebook it adds to the
"authorized device". That is why you need to use ADE to put the ebook onto
your "device". (Remember ADE thinks your SD card is the device that the
"device.xml" file said it was, and it provides ebooks that can be read on that
device, using the reader software that matches the data mentioned in the
"device.xml" and the resulting authorization it puts in the "manifest.xml" file.)
An SD card pretending to be one device can only be used in that device, I
think.
The reader software in each device will have its own way of working. The
script in the .xml files will be different.
If you are trying to use an SD card made for one device in a different device
it won't work. It might work with another of the same make and model
running the same firmware, but I wouldn't count on it.
Having an SD card that ADE sees as your device was mostly to have another
way to deal with manipulating large file structures and get around some DRM
issues. Changes in the DRM scheme made it somewhat less useful.
(But- I find it even easier to just use ADE to enable the download of the
actual ebook file, then disinfect the book file, and be done with it.)
Luck;
Ken
P.S. You could try renaming the "activation" .xml file to "manifest.xml" but
it probably won't work.
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I was trying to create a sd card that that contained every thing I needed (including the books) so that I could read books on which ever reader I plugged the card into.
Yep - you're right. Each reader has a unique device.xml. So my plan is undo-able. But for the record here is what I did. (in case I want to revisit this later).
When I started I copied the .adobe-digital-editions folder from the intsd to the root of the extsd. The folder contained two files device.xml and devicesalt (it had no extension and held maybe a dozen hex characters).
I then started ADE on my PC and plugged in the reader with the sd card. ADE recognized the sdcard and authorized it. Afer the authorization .adobe-digital-editions contained the activation.xml and device.xml.
I took the sdcard and plugged it into my tablet, turned it on and started Aldiko. I navigated to the DRM file that was in "Digital Editions" that I had created. I opened the book and all was well. I looked in "Digital Editions" and saw that Aldiko had added a Thumbnails folder and the manifest.xml.
One other thing. I had to put everything on the internal sd card to get it to work.
I think I learn more from my goofy ideas than I ever do from my good ones. oh-well
Ken, I want to thank you for your forbearance and please don't laugh to hard when you read this.
Regards - John