Okay, I hope everybody will excuse that I am going to post this to three lists but at least I am going to send separately to each list. I thought this might be really helpful to some who may have been as frustrated as I was.
I have bought several ebooks from Christianbook.com. I could read them online but aside from a copy-and-paste procedure that only worked on Snow Leopard below 10.6.8, I could not download the books to my computer. Also, when I tried it with Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 on my computer in Windows, the fact that i had ADE installed wasn't even recognized but if I allowed the ADE to be installed from Christianbook.com in Windows it was inaccessible. Trying to download from the Mac was really frustrating because you could see the message to close the window from the flash player but couldn't access the link to download the item. I emailed Christianbook specifically about updating their version of ADE and they wrote back suggesting I right-click. So I decided to try this on the Mac. To my dismay, setting a keyboard commander command for right click did not work even though I had the mouse lined up correctly; it just dinged at me. Doing vo-shift-m brought up a seven item menu which didn't include downloading the linked file. Finally, I went into System Preferences > Trackpad and under the "point and click" tab, I changed the secondary click menu to "click in bottom right corner". This time when i lined up my mouse on the "download" link for a book and pressed the bottom right corner of the trackpad, and eight-item menu opened with both "download linked file" and another to save as. I have now tried this with three books and two times it downloaded the actual epub file. One time it downloaded the urllink file which downloaded the epub when opened in ADE. I hope this will be as helpful to somebody else as it was to me. I have spent the greater part of the last two days stewing over this and trying to get something to work to download ebooks from this site. I no longer need to cling to Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on my old mac mini which threatens never to start up again every time I shut it down! I again apologize for posting this to three lists but I know that some people only subscribe to one of these. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
