[PLUG] Library ebook access with virtual OS?
Vernon Geiszler
vernon.geiszler at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 18:22:06 UTC 2018
On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> _______________________________________________
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
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