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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What is the problem borrowing from Overdrive? are you trying to borrow ePub or Kindle eBooks?
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JSWolf,
I think you have actually tried to help me with this before. From what I can tell, it seems to be that my library is not correctly communicating with Kobo. When I try to check a book out from the KA1, the Kobo gives an error saying that something went wrong. The book never downloads, but does show as checked out if I go to my library website. It never shows up on my Kobo library, though.
Freelibrary.org gave me a 1-week membership for testing purposes, and when I used that, everything worked perfectly, so I am fairly certain I am doing everything correctly on my end. My library has contacted their overdrive reps, and are hoping to be able to resolve the issue with their help, but overdrive is being rather slow about their response time.
The library says they are on the latest version of the overdrive software. I'm not sure whether there is a configuration issue on the library side, or if there is a versioning error or what. When I spoke with Kobo, they were rather unhelpful.
(As a probably related side note, I cannot search for books that are available in my library, or filter by the library, but I do get the borrow with overdrive option in the menu on the book if it is in the library.)
I would prefer using the library integration to get library books onto my KA1 because I am on Linux, and while ADE does kind of work in wine, it is extremely clunky, and I shouldn't need to use that method.
I am actually impressed with how much effort my contact at the library has been putting into this, since I am the only person he has ever seen with a Kobo, as they are pretty rare here. The fact that he is poking at it at all is pretty awesome to me.