I wish downloading books was as easy...

[Asawi]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

At least you seem to have a borrowing option in Sweden.

So true! I am am very happy with the way we can borrow eBooks! Even if I can't find everything I want in the libraries I have access to I can find enough to not have to buy much at all.
It makes me sad that you don't have the same (or similar) option!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by CleanYourNibs

This feels like a very specific detail that doesn't seem (to me) 100% relevant; what's the benefit of ePub 3 in this context? Or is it just that the best DRM-free ebook format should be used in its most current, updated form?

If eBooks are all going to be without DRM, then we need a way to read them without the need to convert formats. But before we do adopt ePub 3, I do think we'd need to tweak it to get rid of all the crap that Apple managed to get put in and made ePub 3 as easy to code as ePub 2.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I have no Kobo desktop software, but a magic plugin that reads acsm files. I have to remember to rename at download as every DRMed Kobo download has the same name.

Why? When the magic plugin does its magic, it will pull up the correct book regardless of what you named the downloaded acsm file.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Why? When the magic plugin does its magic, it will pull up the correct book regardless of what you named the downloaded acsm file.

When you purchase and download more than one book at a time without leaving the web site. Same issue would apply even if on Windows and using ADE.

So indeed I don't care what exactly I rename them. At least they could add an incrementing number?
I do like that unlike Amazon, Kobo has a shopping basket/trolly thing instead of the stupidly designed named "one click" for ebooks. I have "one click" turned off, but you can't turn it off for ebooks, yet sometimes Amazon offers bundles on "one click".

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

When you purchase and download more than one book at a time without leaving the web site. Same issue would apply even if on Windows and using ADE.

Again, your experience and mine are different.

I too use the magic plug in, not ADE. I purchase and download my requisite three books a day, download the files which are named URLLink.acsm, URLLink(1).acsm and URLLink(2).acsm. I drag and drop those acsm files into Calibre and boom! Three different ePubs automagically appear in Calibre. No download rename or anything.

Test it with three already purchased books and see if I am incorrect.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Again, your experience and mine are different.

I too use the magic plug in, not ADE. I purchase and download my requisite three books a day, download the files which are named URLLink.acsm, URLLink(1).acsm and URLLink(2).acsm. I drag and drop those acsm files into Calibre and boom! Three different ePubs automagically appear in Calibre. No download rename or anything.

Test it with three already purchased books and see if I am incorrect.

I suspect your OS or browser is autonumbering, I can either manually rename or overwrite. Which is expected behaviour when the site offers the same name each time. Unless I add a suffix the file overwrites.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I suspect your OS or browser is autonumbering, I can either manually rename or overwrite. Which is expected behaviour when the site offers the same name each time. Unless I add a suffix the file overwrites.

Sounds like you need a better browser or OS.

[Quoth]

I'm happy with both.

[JSWolf]

Downloading eBooks is easy to me.

[j.p.s]

My browser appends numbers to avoid overwrite. I rename anyway. Just because.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

When you purchase and download more than one book at a time without leaving the web site. Same issue would apply even if on Windows and using ADE.

So indeed I don't care what exactly I rename them. At least they could add an incrementing number?

Oddly, that's exactly what Firefox does for me. urllink.acsm, urllink(1).acsm, urllink(2).acsm, etc. What web browser are you using that does not do so? So far a quick test with FireFox, Edge, Chrome and Safari all show the same behaviour.

[Aleron Ives]

It sounds like a Linux thing. Windows will offer to rename a file to file(1) if there is a naming conflict, but Linux won't necessarily offer to do that, depending on your distro and desktop environment.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

It sounds like a Linux thing. Windows will offer to rename a file to file(1) if there is a naming conflict, but Linux won't necessarily offer to do that, depending on your distro and desktop environment.

It's no big deal and I don't like the silent renaming, sometimes I want to overwrite. It's no bother to rename.
The Archive manager will autoincrement a suffix if the unzipped target exists. Drag & Drop copy to same place (usually a mistake and "undo" is good!) in Caja File Manager will autoincrement a suffix. I actually prefer that the Wbe brower doesn't. The point is that Kobo is the ONLY site I download from that gives every different download the same name.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's no big deal and I don't like the silent renaming, sometimes I want to overwrite. It's no bother to rename.
The Archive manager will autoincrement a suffix if the unzipped target exists. Drag & Drop copy to same place (usually a mistake and "undo" is good!) in Caja File Manager will autoincrement a suffix. I actually prefer that the Wbe brower doesn't. The point is that Kobo is the ONLY site I download from that gives every different download the same name.

My local library does the same thing.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The point is that Kobo is the ONLY site I download from that gives every different download the same name.

Originally Posted by DNSB

My local library does the same thing.

ebooks.com does as well.

In addition, from time to time, downloading from amazon gives a file named something like download (maybe with an extension).