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11-30-2010, 06:49 PM | #303 |
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I'm really hoping that we can get it in there in January, but I can't promise that. We have to give priority to adding stores and doing white labels - as we need to eat
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I might be a complete moron, but are there step by step instructions for the wireless download of an Overdrive library book to my iPod touch without going through ADE?
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You will need iCab browser which does cost money (but not much). I'm assuming you already have Bluefire Reader and that you have authorized it with your Adobe ID and that you already have an Overdrive library account somewhere. Use iCab to navigate to your library's Overdrive web site, select a book to checkout, and go through the normal checkout process. When you get to the download page, touch the download button and hold for a bit until a window pops up with some choices. Choose to "download file" and the download should start. Then open the download window in icab (arrow pointing down icon) and find the file you just downloaded. Touch it and hold until a window pops up that should say "Open in Bluefire Reader", touch that, and you should be taken automatically to BF reader and the book will download and open in that. I hope that helps! There may be other browsers that will also do this, but I know it works in iCab. Last edited by steph_g; 11-30-2010 at 09:39 PM. |
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11-30-2010, 09:41 PM | #306 |
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Well, I'm hoping that I'll find another use for iCab since this didn't work and won't for the foreseeable future.
I can access 4 different Overdrive libraries and none of them allow access to their ebook collections via my iPod touch. The only thing I can get to is their .mp3 files. They all specifically say that Apple devices aren't supported. So at this point, I'll have to settle for downloading my books through ADE and then sideloading them to Bluefire. Unless, of course, somebody has another idea. |
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Because page numbers change depending on size of screen, font, margins etc. Locations should never change. If you read the same book on different devices or software, locations can be used as a common reference point in the book. So you dont need to sync position or bookmarks, you just remember the location number.
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Unfortunately, Overdrive still recognized it as a non-approved mobile device.
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I wonder how it could know? Hmmm, well, I would try contacting those libraries and letting them know there is now an app that works for library books and ask them to change their websites to allow access. Sorry it didn't work for you. My local overdrive system doesn't restrict what I can view on my iPad. I haven't tried on my iPhone. Good luck!
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Perhaps this is obvious to everyone, and it still requires a computer (though not ADE), but you can also email a downloaded .acsm file as a file attachment to a Mail account you have set up on your iThing. Open the attachment, and it offers to open it with Bluefire, etc.
At least this is more convenient than having to tether and go through ADE/iTunes/sync. Presumably the Overdrive iOS app (when available) will be able to download directly somehow, though if it works like their Media Console app, it will be using Safari, which implies they'll also have to change the mobile web interface to allow this (my library's portal is hosted on overdrive.com). And when they do that, you should be able to download directly to Bluefire as well, without a 3rd party browser. Last edited by tomsem; 12-01-2010 at 06:21 PM. |
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