Hi all. First time poster here
I've been lurking for awhile and appreciate all the useful information that's been made available by MobileRead's user community.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that using Ubuntu 8.10 and GNOME, I've been able to run ADE under Wine and authorize it with Adobe. Also, I've been able to successfully download DRM'd epub books that I've purchased from Books On Board by following these steps:
- Download and save the acsm file after you purchase your book.
- Open ADE under Wine.
- Find the downloaded acsm file and drag it into the open ADE window.
After doing that, ADE downloads the epub, then ADE adds whatever bit of information to the epub so that it works with your ADE account, and then ADE finally saves it in the My Digital Editions folder in the /home/
useraccount directory (or whichever directory you've specified for 'My Documents' under Wine) and opens the book for you to read.
You can then take that epub and copy it into your Sony Reader (and I assume to any other ADE-recognized reading device) that's been registered to your ADE account and start reading. Also, you can import that epub into Calibre. In Calibre, you won't be able to read the book, but you can add metadata such as tags so that you can put it into a collection for your Sony Reader.
What I have not been able to do in Linux is find a way to authorize your Sony Reader with Adobe. ADE under Wine doesn't seem to recognize that I've plugged it in. Nor is it recognized if I run ADE under Windows XP in VirtualBox. So, to authorize my Sony Reader, I had to use a Windows computer.
Well, I think that's all I can say. Hopefully it will be of some help
--Richard