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Originally Posted by cheyennedonna
I vaguely remember using vital source books and I believe it is a proprietary software that opens the books. If printing is allowed you can try printing to pdf, although sometimes that function is not allowed. I did have luck once printing to a networked computer's PDF printer, bit a lot of those books also have page # restrictions, i.e. you can only print 10 pages at a time. Dang book publishers make it so hard to use what we paid for.
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Thanks again. I'll try the PDF printing method. Luckily the books can be viewed using a web browser which works but isn't as convenient as having the offline version. It's not just the publishers making it hard but the schools as well. By requiring students to use eBooks it is almost like they are endorsing a specific product (PC, Mac, iPad) when there are so many other manufacturers (Amazon, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Pandigital etc.) that have e-readers. I'm sure someone, somewhere along the line will question the legality of this. Not that I am saying that eBooks aren't the way of the future but, if a college requires them from a publisher and the publisher does not support basic formats which can be used by all devices it constitutes an endorsement on the part of the school. It's one thing if I decide to buy a book as a private citizen because then I am accepting any device restrictions but, it's a completely different set of circumstances when a school tells me where I have to buy a software product and what platforms I am limited to.