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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I saw a report in another thread that the B&N Mac Reader may still be downloading eReader (.pdb) files when the Windows version is downloading ePub (.epub) files. Make sure you have the latest version (v1.1 for Mac, which supports ePub). Under Windows, Altar of Eden by James Rollins, currently free, downloads as a 2.1MB EPUB from within the Windows B&N Reader but if you download this from your B&N bookshelf via a web browser it comes as a 562KB eReader (.pdb) file.
Note that the .epub file format is a particular kind of ZIP file, and hence the "not a ZIP" error if the file isn't an EPUB. |
Thanks, wallcraft. I obtained
Altar of Eden in the way you mentioned and successfully used the
ignobleepub Python script from i♥cabbages (converted to a double-clickable application by my Mac) to decrypt it.
The situation, as you mentioned, is interesting. This eBook by James Rollins is being given away for free at the B&N online store. If you go there in a web browser, either on a Mac or in Windows, and "buy" and then download the book from your "My eBooks Library," you will get a
.pdb version of the book.
The
ignobleepub Python script doesn't work with that. It works only with the EPUB version. But apparently the only way to get the EPUB version is to download it from your online "My eBooks Library" using
Barnes & Noble Desktop Reader for Windows!
Barnes & Noble eReader for the Mac is
not a clone of that software, and it cannot access your online B&N eBooks library, so apparently it cannot obtain the EPUB version of the Rollins book directly.
I find it curious that (at least in this case) B&N would be able to "localize" two different versions of the same eBook, depending on how you access the eBook once it is in your online B&N library.
I wonder if the same is true for other B&N eBooks. Does anyone know?