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Originally Posted by EastEriq
Not using Calibre by habit, I actually managed to install ADE 4.5 with winetricks, but it wasn't able to have it download the epubs fom the *.acsms I got from the libraries. 'Check authorization!' or something the like.
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I haven't had any luck with Wine and ADE at all, but I only half-heartedly tried. I just
really don't want anything Windows on my Linux computer. I don't really use Calibre to its full potential, but for what I
do use, it works really well for me.
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Originally Posted by EastEriq
Nevertheless, I ran into knock, which does the job neatly for me. The only drawback, it is 131Mb of static executable to keep on disk. First time I read about this NixOS, btw, one always learns something new. |
Looks interesting. I'll have to take a look. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by EastEriq
I also ran into this, which I understand is based on libgourou as well and compiled on ARM7 for Kobo, which might perhaps with some dedication been ported to Pocketbook - but if the problem is in certifying the connection, probably wouldn't help. |
This is what DeASCM is based on.
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Originally Posted by EastEriq
In any event, I'm happy with knock for the time being. Overdrive has such an impossible interface that choosing books to borrow with the PB browser is such an heroic endeavour by itself, that getting the epub on the laptop and then transferring on the PB is after all not so much a detour.
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I understand, but the PocketBook (since it saves your last location and passwords and is faster) is much better directly connecting to Overdrive than the Tolinos — but currently the Tolino works and the PocketBook doesn't. With the Tolino I usually just download the .ASCM file and move it over with a USB cable. Up until I installed DeASCM I had no way to open OverDrive ePubs on my computer at all. Now there are many more options — but I still would like to get the functionality back to do this directly with the PocketBook. I actually used the PocketBook for direct downloads quite a bit.
I'm wondering how soon "soon" is in the upcoming fix from PocketBook.