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Originally Posted by robko
The DRM part was strictly speculation on my part since that seemed to be the general thought in this thread as to why people might be having issues.
This is also speculation but my guess would be that it's possible that Sony Reader for PC has newer DRM components than the firmware in the reader itself, so it can decode it and allow the reader to read it once it is transferred onto it (the reader itself wouldn't be required to decode the DRM since PC already had).
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At least you have some speculation that sounds good - I couldn't even come up with that!
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Originally Posted by davidfor
You have had other answers, but, the way the Aura ONE handles books borrowed from Overdrive completely different to the way the the Sony's did or ADE does. Adobe DRM is not involved and the connection is between the Overdrive and Kobo servers not directly to the device.
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Thanks - I had no idea how the Kobo thing worked.
I emailed my library's help desk to ask about this issue. Who knows if I will get a knowledgeable person with a useful answer, but I figured it was worth a try. If they report back that Overdrive is officially no longer going to support direct access for Sony readers, then at least I'll know for sure and I can decide whether I want to just keep the Sony and get my library books via PC (I do that most of the time anyway) or whether being able to occasionally get books directly on the reader is important enough for me to switch readers.