[PLUG] Library ebook access with virtual OS?

[Ali Corbin]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> 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.