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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Is that really true about the 3M Cloud Library? My library has it, and I can check out books and download them to Adobe Digital Editions.
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I stand corrected. I had only looked at the information on 3M's site. They tout the fact that you don't need an Adobe ID. They make no mention of ADE, or of any PC app, or transfer to third party devices. 3M is not an Adobe RMSDK licensee. So it kind of looked like they had figured out how to do things without Adobe's help.
But that was too much to hope for: I went to a library site where they were using 3M and the support page there points to a 'PC app' that you can download from 3M that would let you transfer to a third party device, just as you describe.
That app must be ADE or some flavor of it.
The only twist here is that there's no mention of needing an Adobe ID, even in this latter case. I am guessing that they are using the little-known 'Vendor ID' form of Adobe DRM:
http://www.bluefirereader.com/adobe-vendor-id.html
I have not seen this workflow in action but I assume the downloaded vendorID-encoded ePub can be opened with ADE (or equivalent) and that it in turn can proxy the authorization for reading with an RMSDK reading system.
Interestingly, the library site also mentioned Kindle Fire as something you could read 3MCL books on. But the 3M app is not in the Amazon Appstore (or at least not available for Fire, as the Overdrive app is). Ha, and they say you should send email to 'kindle-feedback@amazon.com' to let Amazon know you can't read on your Kindle.