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Originally Posted by JSWolf
All you actually need is an account at adobe.com and ADE. Then you can authorize ADE and your Sony. After you are all set with ADE and your Sony, all you need to borrow library eBooks is your web browser. You would download the ACSM file which would tell ADE to download the eBook and once downloaded, you can use ADE or Reader Library to move the eBook to your Sony. It's not difficult and even on dialup it will work fine (just slower).
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I regularly use three different computers, plus the Sony. One of the computers can't be authorized for anything. (Work computer.) I can access much of the web from work (hi!) and even shop for & download ebooks, but installing software requires special permissions.
Can't get the Sony Library software. Too big for dialup and it's apparently on a weird server; the download crashes partway through. (I know there's not actually a "too big for dialup;" I've downloaded 30+mb files before. But they take a loooooong time, and I need a better reason than "I'll be able to check out the occasional library book.") Dialup download is ~5minutes/mb.
Currently, I don't use the Reader library or Calibre to move books on & off my reader; I use the explorer window. (Which means I don't get categories/tags, so I tend to edit the titles in the metadata with a prefix that I want them to sort with.) Having to install special software onto three computers (one of which may not let me install it), with authorization weirdness, is too much hassle.
My local-local library doesn't have ADE ebooks. I could get a card for the San Francisco library, which does--but again, more hassle, and I'm not out of non-DRM'd stuff to read yet.
Doctorow's new book comes out tomorrow.