On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/31/2018 09:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> >>> Multnomah County (and other) libraries offer ebooks that >>> are readable only with Windoze or MacOS client software. >>> Some linux books are only available in this form. :-( >>> >>> Has anyone read library ebooks with this client software >>> running in a Virtualbox or Vmware virtual machine? >>> How well does it work? Tips and suggestions? >>> >> >> Clackamas County uses Library2Go: >> >> https://library2go.overdrive.com/ >> >> While they offer various e-book formats, they also offer "Read now in >> browser." I tried figuring out how to get one of the other formats to work >> without success, but I have no problem with the browser version. I'd be >> surprised if Washington and Multnomah counties didn't have something >> similar. >> >> I'm in Multnomah County, and have never had a problem with reading library > e-books in my browser. Or on an android tablet. I remember trying to get > calibre to decode an epub for me, but failing. As I remember, you have to > give it the key that overdrive installed for you. I obviously didn't have > that on my linux box, and I couldn't find it on my tablet. I wonder if it > would work to install overdrive on a vm just to get the key and use that > with calibre under linux to decode the books. > _______________________________________________
If you install Adobe Digital Editions (runs through wine). Then you can use the desktop. You do have to create an account with Adobe. I use Aldiko on my tablet to read these books (with the Adobe credentials). Vernon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
