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Zora · 06-25-2013, 09:38 PM

I'm a researcher-writer-editor-proofreader ... and I've recently added ebook formatting to my skills. One of the editors at a local book design company asked my advice re some ebook files that she believed were full of errors. I looked at the epub and mobi files on my PC and my iPod and saw no problems with the rendering of Hawaiian diacritics (macrons and glottal stops). I asked her what she was using to read the book and she said Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2. So I downloaded and installed ADE (the latest, 2.0) to look at the epub file and it was perfectly fine.

Something wrong at her end, clearly.

One of the things that puzzled me was that she would choose to use ADE as a reader. So far as I can tell, folks these days either use a Kindle app or an epub reader like Calibre (on a desktop) or Aldiko (on a smartphone). I don't hear much about ADE. I can't find any statistics online as to what percentage of the ereading public uses ADE. Does anyone here know?

06-25-2013, 09:38 PM	#1
Zora Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Honolulu Device: iPod Touch, Nexus tablet	Percentage of readers using Adobe Digital Editions? I'm a researcher-writer-editor-proofreader ... and I've recently added ebook formatting to my skills. One of the editors at a local book design company asked my advice re some ebook files that she believed were full of errors. I looked at the epub and mobi files on my PC and my iPod and saw no problems with the rendering of Hawaiian diacritics (macrons and glottal stops). I asked her what she was using to read the book and she said Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2. So I downloaded and installed ADE (the latest, 2.0) to look at the epub file and it was perfectly fine. Something wrong at her end, clearly. One of the things that puzzled me was that she would choose to use ADE as a reader. So far as I can tell, folks these days either use a Kindle app or an epub reader like Calibre (on a desktop) or Aldiko (on a smartphone). I don't hear much about ADE. I can't find any statistics online as to what percentage of the ereading public uses ADE. Does anyone here know?