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Old 12-15-2020, 06:35 AM   #31
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I use ADE 2.0 and it recently stopped opening ACSM files (some message about 'bad device key' etc). To get around that, I open the ACSM file with the Bluefire app on my iPad, I email the ePub to myself, and I then open it in Calibre. Convoluted but it works.
Which sounds like a workable solution for someone with IOS/Android devices and a linux PC, if you don't want to mess around with Wine.
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Which sounds like a workable solution for someone with IOS/Android devices and a linux PC, if you don't want to mess around with Wine.
That works only if you have the decryption key for your Adobe ID obtained from an installation of ADE somewhere else.
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That works only if you have the decryption key for your Adobe ID obtained from an installation of ADE somewhere else.
Thanks for the info. So there is no way to get the key off of an Android device?
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Thanks for the info. So there is no way to get the key off of an Android device?
Not as far as I know.

(Edit: I was wrong. Looking at Apprentice Harper's GitHub I see that it has been done.)
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Old 12-15-2020, 01:40 PM   #35
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I'm probably misreading your message but why the OP would need to purchase an OS license to run ADE under WINE?
I thought it was clear that the license fee would be for the dual boot case, not for wine. I am sorry if it wasn't.

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Fora full Windows install, yes but then most Linux tend to have a Windows license or two kicking around from where they sidegraded to Linux.
Will ADE run on win 9x?

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Personally, I have a great fondness for virtualization since it allows me to run multiple Windows. Linux and even MacOS installations on my laptop. Not to mention, the ease of creating and tweaking an OS template for our corporate virtualization environment.
I was a big fan of vmware when it first came out and bought a personal license, which I renewed a couple of times. But it kept getting worse for me and its online documentation went from among the best I've ever seen to opaque.

I've tried virtualbox from time to time, but each time the particular hardware support I was looking for didn't work.
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And some Linux users going months or even years between reboots? From what I've seen that is not that common and is taking unnecessary risks. Our Linux servers get rebooted several times per year when we install security upgrades both for the OS and for applications.
"some" does not mean "typical". I just wanted show that uptime can be quite lengthy in practice.

Such computers usually only have 1 or very few open ports and only allow access from
a small IP white list.
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Old 12-15-2020, 01:42 PM   #36
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you are dealing with eBooks, Windows is the best OS and this is not disputable since OS X has gone 64-bit only.
Saying something wrong over and over and over does not make it correct.
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Old 12-15-2020, 01:45 PM   #37
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Before we give any more suggestions, we need the OP to come back and say what it is he actually wants based on our suggestions.
The OP has already stated to be likely to select getting a kindle as the least undesirable choice. If someone has a suggestion different from already offered, they don't need your permission to make it.
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Old 12-16-2020, 06:37 AM   #38
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Why? A Kobo is so much better. The firmware makes the Kobo give a better reading experience plus you can manage eBooks so much easier. If you go Kindle, you'll regret it.
Absolutely true and a great bookstore..
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Absolutely true and a great bookstore..
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Thanks for all the replies. My current setup is a ThinkPad 530 that is 6 or 7 years old, running Ubuntu 20.04 and an HP chromebook. I used to dual boot windows 7 and it was a PITA because of all the necessary updates and crap windows would do to entice me to upgrade to Windows 10. I ended up wiping and installing Ubuntu and am happy with that.
None of the solutions offered are easy or inexpensive. I'm amazed at how difficult it is to buy an ebook and read it without having to turn to Amazon/Kindle and their proprietary app. I could spend a long time ranting about DRM and proprietary ecosystems, but I suppose everyone on this site feels the same way. I think the industry has 'legalized' itself out of a lot of revenue.
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@raynchk yes the all love lock-in force you to use only there things, and as linux user i will NOT use a product that only runs on windows newest. So I buy only drm free books,or go to the library You could ask a doze user to buy and DoRreMi for you,grey area butt many companies do that, group buying.
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@raynchk yes the all love lock-in force you to use only there things, and as linux user i will NOT use a product that only runs on windows newest. So I buy only drm free books,or go to the library You could ask a doze user to buy and DoRreMi for you,grey area butt many companies do that, group buying.
I'm curious...if you won't read books with DRM, how do you read library books? Or are you talking about paper books from the library?

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As for being least configurable? I have no issues with configuring Windows 10 to work the way I want it to work for the end users. Group Policy has an enriched selection over Windows 7 making it easier for IT to manage them.
And you being able to use group policy makes clear that you're talking about one of the corporate windows versions, instead of W10Home edition, which is a very different beast.
Usng the home edition I can understand how it is 30% less efficient than previous versions, less configurable, etc. It is, because MS doesn't want us to do any configuration. This even cost me half a working day once when W10 decided to do a fall upgrade I wasn't allowed to postpone. Luckily, postponing/choosing your own time now is allowed, although MS overwrites the setting every now and then during updates.
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Just to add a touch off lightness

My happiest bookshop memory is of one in Barrow-in Furness, UK, when I visited from Australia aeons ago. Two very old ladies ran it; second hand books were stacked on top of each other in vast piles, and a very fat cat slept on the top of the pile I was studying. I managed to get the book I wanted out of the pile eventually.

Never seen another like that shop. The old ladies, if extant, would probably be well over 100 by now, if not more, so I guess that little shop has closed... And the cat is sleeping on a tall stack of second-hand halos.

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