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Originally Posted by John F
Stumped, could you please post if you can get ADE 2.0, Overdrive, and RBdigital to all use the same Adobe ID? I couldn't get it to work, and went with ADE 4.X
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well as a partial answer = yes.
i have ADE v2.0.1.78765 on this PC
authorized a very long time ago...
So i found the new URL for my library to use RBdigital and I registered with RB digital using an email and password, and gave it my old( from overdrive days) library card ID
( I might actually have registered from a tablet last night when I was trying and failing to get the RB app to work, and trying and failing to renew my library card online. The main library site says it expired in 2015! but it was working fine with overdrive this summer! - I've not seen nor needed the actual physical card for years, I have the number and PIN saved in a txt file on PC )
then I borrowed a book, using this PC, which downloaded in the usual way . an ACSM file downloaded, opened with ADE, book appeared and was readable in ADE
i cant test with a kobo device though as my son has mine & I have not gotten around to buying a new one yet
i did also have another go at installing the android app - to my HUAwei and that worked this time around. i logged in with email and password and there was the book that I'd PREVIOUSLY checked out on the PC - on the checked out screen!. it was also readable there. i did not bother to test if reading position syncs back to anything, the reader app on android is awful.
Hope that helps a little
AFAIK RBdigital has not asked, does not know, does not need to know my Adobe ID, or my ADE version. it uses a different process to send a book to the android app, and for checkout via PC my PC handles the acsm decrypt stuff, locally
#FYI I can still log into overdrive/ library and th e app say I have a library card.- but when I get to checkout a book it then says whats your library, and the only possible answer seems to be "I'm not sure". Then it puts up a google map and says pick one but there are no libraries in a 30 mile radius of where i live ( that's where I though aha, maybe my library has parted company with overdrive ! )
i also confirmed that by searching for my library at overdrive, I tried postcode, town, nearest city... all came up no libraries found..
the library never told me about the change either- well maybe they put up a sign in the actual library, but I stopped going there on principle when they fired almost all the staff and put in self service machines for returns, for checkouts, for searches, and a gizmo to open the door. Basically its a walk-in ATM nowadays