#Adobe digital editions 3.0 full
#Adobe digital editions 3.0 software

I just went ahead and used the package from my distro: wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1). I just downloaded these directly into my home directory for easy reference later.

#Adobe digital editions 3.0 full

Yes, the full download package because using the smaller web installer caused my installation to hang. NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Full Package (231.5 MB) Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1 Windows installer (5.7 MB).To start, you’ll need a couple of downloads for later: You’ll need to be comfortable in your shell to do this, no graphical installer for these steps (sorry). I have successfully installed ADE 2.0.1 on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04. If you’re still reading this far I can only assume that you need to get this installed as well.

Overall it took a good few hours of searching and playing to finally arrive at a working installation of ADE 2.0.1 with Wine on Linux. The instructions there didn’t really work for me, but there were some other posts in places like the MobileRead wiki where I was able to gain some more insights as well. I spent some time researching if the application would work over at the App Database for Wine. (The actual interface for Overdrive at the library is a website.) For other purposes that I won’t go into here right now, I need to be able to use an older version of ADE. Rather, it’s use of Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) as the means for checking out books. It actually installs just fine all on it’s own in Wine so it’s a non-issue. I won’t go into using CloudLibrary, as it’s not the focus of this post. Luckily for Linux users, there’s the project to run Windows applications on various POSIX-compliant operating systems: Wine.

#Adobe digital editions 3.0 software

Neither of these software solutions have a Linux option. Currently, there are mainly two big systems in place for digital library lending, Bibliotheca’s CloudLibrary and Rakuten Overdrive.Īs is often the case in modern computing, anything not Apple or Microsoft is relegated to the rubbish bin.Īs a Linux user, this is not ideal for me. The problem lies in how we can borrow and checkout digital books. I immediately ran into a bit of a disconnect between my rapidly advancing digital life and the reality of digital books.

It’s like supporting net-neutrality in meatspace! Side note: Please, please, please support your local libraries. In the course of finding more books to read I did what I’ve always done for as long as I can remember: visit my local library. I picked up an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite over a year ago, and I have been tearing through books at an alarming rate. I'll stop posting relevant xkcd comics when Randall stops making relevant xkcd comics. This post is a little more esoteric, but in the spirit of helping others from the future we’re gonna dive into this.

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