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Originally Posted by PeterT
When you open Adobe Digital Edition (or ADE) on your PC with the Kobo attached, it will detect and prompt you to authorize the device.
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yes, i was just about to type in the same thing. My son has my Kobo on loan so I can't check but you may be able to add the adobe ID directly to the device, I think "authorise my device" is on the settings menu.
Another way to find it , & to check if your PC has it, is to install the free adobe digital editions software on PC then look in the menus
as for what it is, an adobe ID is just an email address that you registered one time with adobe. your PC will know it even if you don't. I would expect that your sony reader will display it if asked, also.
NB there was a a scare at adobe, when lots of email + password combos were hacked, but you only need a matching password if you want to log into adobe. you don't need it to register a device and if you do change the password at adobe web site, as they recommend, there's no need to do anything to either of your readers.
the overdrive system for library book lending has helpful FAQ for this stuff, for various devices, that is what I mostly learned from.
FYI I got worried one time that I might run out of adobe authorizations - hit a too many devices rule. ( as I'd changed my PCs and my readers a few times) so I got into a web chat at adobe which was a pain - they seemed to know less than me !- but I came out of it with the info that I can use an id on up to 9 devices & I've never hit any "too many devices" limit
To see if you are on the adobe hacked list , use last pass adobe checker: enter your email address here
https://lastpass.com/adobe/
& it will check for you, & will also tell you your password hint as stored by adobe if that was hacked. From that I learned that over 2000 people had the same adobe password as me, at the time of the hack, and that there were over 500 hints stored. It showed me all 500 of those hints, from which any idiot could deduce the password! duh!
last pass is v good, it has similar checkers for the big gmail hack ( I was not on that one) and for apple Ids ( don't have one of those so I'm immune)...