Best ereader?

nucoder

Hi, I work in it but I haven't a clue about ereaders I was wondering if anyone had some expert advice? thanks

What is best ereader for €180-€200 that:



Can buy books from the online store Amazon, unless or as an alternative any
other online ebook stores.

And be able to download from the overdrive ebook library online which is part of
the dublin eblook library lending network.

And read the most formats out of these

Adobe EPUB eBook
Adobe PDF eBook
Kindle Books
Overdrive open PDF eBooks
Overdrive EPUB eBooks
Overdrive PDF eBooks
Overdrive open EPUB eBooks

be able to download and read online magazines as well,
I'm assuming they're the same format as some of them above.

Have inbuilt Wifi.

Have the best storage space for books.

And have the longest battery life before replacing


Colour wouldn't be an issue for me with reading magazines on an ereader,
however I'm wondering do an ereaders out there have the ability to read
digital magazine subscriptions.

Some people will probably suggest a tablet, thats fine especially for colour magazines,
I'm just wondering would it have a battery life that would last as long as some of the
ereaders, which I heard can last up to a couple of weeks without being plugged in.


I know this is alot of info, I just want to get this right and not disappoint myself,
and your informed opinions will help alot.

thanks

riclad

GET an android tablet maybe 7 inch,with long battery life.
download the kindle app,
and coolreader app,
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=coolreader++

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.coolreader
http://www.powercity.ie/index.php?par=10-28&cat=TV,%20DVD,%20Camera,%20Laptop,iPad&action=brandstory

samsung tab 3, 199 euro,
takes 16gig,or 32,gig or 64gig,sdmicro card.

average book ebook, is less than 1meg,

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-28-5000704

YOU have to buy the card,
16gig card around 18 euro in , moore st dublin phone shops.


or buy a kindle reader,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007OZO03M/?tag=googiehydra-21&hvadid=30290228273&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1779147411584284785&hvpon



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CTUKFNQ/ref=fs_clw



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.kindle&hl=en

kindle app for android tablets

get apps android ,to read pdf or overdrive epub books on google play store.

riclad

Format: IDPF/EPUB
Published as: .epub


The EPUB logo.
The .epub or OEBPS format is an open standard for e-books created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It combines three IDPF open standards:
Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0, which describes the content markup (either XHTML or Daisy DTBook)
Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0, which describes the structure of an .epub in XML
OEBPS Container Format (OCF) 1.0, which bundles files together (as a renamed ZIP file)
The EPUB format has gained some popularity as a vendor-independent XML-based e-book format. The format can be read by the Kobo eReader, Blackberry Playbook, Apple's iBooks app running on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (with firmware v. 2 and up), COOL-ER, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton, AZARDI, FBReader, Aldiko, Mantano Reader, Moon+ Reader on Android, the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader, and Okular. Several other desktop reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as dotReader, Mobipocket, uBook.
The only notable device lacking support for the EPUB format is the Amazon Kindle. There are a number of programs that can convert EPUB to formats the Kindle can read, including Calibre.
Adobe Digital Editions uses .epub format for its e-books, with DRM protection provided through their proprietary ADEPT mechanism. The recently developed ADEPT framework and scripts have been reverse-engineered to circumvent this DRM system.[3]





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

I don,t know if the kindle ereader can read all the ebook formats
that you need.

FREE openoffice for android has a pdf reader built in,
or get a pdf reader on the google play android store.
Some 7 inch tablets have 8 hours battery life.

nucoder

riclad wrote: »

Format: IDPF/EPUB
Published as: .epub


The EPUB logo.
The .epub or OEBPS format is an open standard for e-books created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It combines three IDPF open standards:
Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0, which describes the content markup (either XHTML or Daisy DTBook)
Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0, which describes the structure of an .epub in XML
OEBPS Container Format (OCF) 1.0, which bundles files together (as a renamed ZIP file)
The EPUB format has gained some popularity as a vendor-independent XML-based e-book format. The format can be read by the Kobo eReader, Blackberry Playbook, Apple's iBooks app running on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (with firmware v. 2 and up), COOL-ER, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton, AZARDI, FBReader, Aldiko, Mantano Reader, Moon+ Reader on Android, the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader, and Okular. Several other desktop reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as dotReader, Mobipocket, uBook.
The only notable device lacking support for the EPUB format is the Amazon Kindle. There are a number of programs that can convert EPUB to formats the Kindle can read, including Calibre.
Adobe Digital Editions uses .epub format for its e-books, with DRM protection provided through their proprietary ADEPT mechanism. The recently developed ADEPT framework and scripts have been reverse-engineered to circumvent this DRM system.[3]





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

I don,t know if the kindle ereader can read all the ebook formats
that you need.

FREE openoffice for android has a pdf reader built in,
or get a pdf reader on the google play android store.
Some 7 inch tablets have 8 hours battery life.

Thanks for all the info riclad,

I would really like to get a Paperwhite Kindle alright,
What do you have a Kindle? or a tablet? and have you converted books using calibre yourself onto a Kindle Paperwhite? or maybe I should get a Kindle Fire HD.

As regards an android tab I dunno if the glare of the screen would be as easy on the eyes as say an ereader, any personal experience yourself reading on the the two.

The Samsung tab 3 looks pretty cool, very tempted to get that.
Have you used this yourself
or would you get the latest google Nexus tab?

riclad

i got archos,tab, 3 years ago.
I don,t think the nexus has an sdcard slot,
i used ipad, samsung tab.
i use coolreader,
set brightness to 5 per cent, i find it very readable, I
read books on my samsung phone.
theres loadsa settings text,size ,color, brightness ,backround.
text color,night mode.etc
in coolreader menu.
not too bright.
i set it to dark display.
easy to read. not bright at all.

when i use coolreader.
not hard on the eyes.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/tablets/3475217/ipad-mini-2-vs-google-nexus-7-review/
if i was buying a tablet now ,i buy a samsung,7 INCH.
IF it has removable battery .


I used my friends samsung tablet,
let me put it this way,
ALL samsung tablets are very good.
well designed,good battery life.
good interface.
easy to use,
better than ipads in my opinion.
I think the nexus is expensive.its a good tablet ,8 hours battery life.

YOU can use calibre to convert formats from one to another,
its free.to download.

i find no glare on my phone,
as i go to settings on reader,
brightness is 5 per cent or less.

I won,t buy a tablet,unless it has removable ,battery, 8 hours battery life,
sdcard micro.

A TABLET, YOU CAN USE FOR YOUTUBE, WEBROWSING,

EBOOK READER ,it can read, ebook, pdf. thats about it.

if you to to pcworld,
carphone warehouse, they have tablets on tables,
try em out.
or look on youtube videos.

I think nexus is fine,
if it HAS an sdcard slot,
of battery is REMOVABLE ,
read a review.

i read books on phone, 800 pages.
maybe 30 minutes at a time.

riclad

nexus has NO sdcard slot, so
i ,,do NOT recommend it.
dont know if battery is user acessable,or can be removed .
so its a BIG no from me.

I can put anything on sdcard ,then put it in my phone,or in my tablet.
without using the battery.
for downloading.
say a book is 1meg,
you,d get alot of books on a sdcard 16gig,
16gig = 16000 megabyte .

samsung tablets well built,reliable, good interface,
good battery life,
easy to get parts CHEAP, if say in 4 years you need a new battery.

sdcard to usb unit ,
2 euro in dealz shop, mary st.

never used kindle,
calibre is easy to use,
i have it on my laptop.

using the settings in coolreader,app,
Glare is zero on my samsung phone.
i always buy matte screen laptops,
no relections,
set brightness to zero on my phone,settings,display.


i recommend the samsung tab,

i f you just want a basic ereader ,
a kindle,
theres the fire tablet from amazon,
it gets good reviews,
dont know if it has an sdcard.

I THINK in 4 years time, nexus, hard to get parts,
more expensive to fix than samsung ,
cos samsung sell millions of units ,
so any parts tend to be cheap ,
and easy to find in a local shop.

nucoder

riclad wrote: »

nexus has NO sdcard slot, so
i ,,do NOT recommend it.
dont know if battery is user acessable,or can be removed .
so its a BIG no from me.

I can put anything on sdcard ,then put it in my phone,or in my tablet.
without using the battery.
for downloading.
say a book is 1meg,
you,d get alot of books on a sdcard 16gig,
16gig = 16000 megabyte .

samsung tablets well built,reliable, good interface,
good battery life,
easy to get parts CHEAP, if say in 4 years you need a new battery.

sdcard to usb unit ,
2 euro in dealz shop, mary st.

never used kindle,
calibre is easy to use,
i have it on my laptop.

using the settings in coolreader,app,
Glare is zero on my samsung phone.
i always buy matte screen laptops,
no relections,
set brightness to zero on my phone,settings,display.


i recommend the samsung tab,

i f you just want a basic ereader ,
a kindle,
theres the fire tablet from amazon,
it gets good reviews,
dont know if it has an sdcard.

I THINK in 4 years time, nexus, hard to get parts,
more expensive to fix than samsung ,
cos samsung sell millions of units ,
so any parts tend to be cheap ,
and easy to find in a local shop.

Well thats helped me a lot thanks for all that info

riclad

get tablet you can buy in a shop,
like samsung,
I think nexus is just avaidable online,
some tablets only take 32gig ,max ,on an sdcard.

Khannie

I would in my eyeball get a normal tablet for reading books from. E-ink displays are where it's at for books.

The kindle fails here:

And be able to download from the overdrive ebook library online which is part of
the dublin eblook library lending network.

Because they lend out epub books and the kindle wont handle them.

My advice: Kobo Glow.

Gamayun

Khannie wrote: »

I would in my eyeball get a normal tablet for reading books from. E-ink displays are where it's at for books.

The kindle fails here:

And be able to download from the overdrive ebook library online which is part of
the dublin eblook library lending network.

Because they lend out epub books and the kindle wont handle them.

My advice: Kobo Glow.

+1 on Kobo Glow, I have a Kobo mini, here's my post about it from the Literature forum. The Kobo Glow looks great.

Regarding formats on the Kindle, you can use Calibre to convert epub/lit etc. to mobi files which the Kindle supports. However I assume that the library epubs probably have some protection against this so it would only be of use to purchased ebooks.

Khannie

Gamayun wrote: »

I assume that the library epubs probably have some protection against this

Yeah, they are DRM'd. I believe it's possible to circumvent this, but most people wouldn't be arsed with de-DRM-ing something just to put it on a kindle.

syklops

I have a kindle and a kindle fire. the kindle is for reading books. The fire for magazines, books with pictures/diagrams and some PDFs. For text, e-Ink all the way. With e-Ink, I get tired holding it long before my eyes get tired reading it.

nucoder

syklops wrote: »

I have a kindle and a kindle fire. the kindle is for reading books. The fire for magazines, books with pictures/diagrams and some PDFs. For text, e-Ink all the way. With e-Ink, I get tired holding it long before my eyes get tired reading it.

Yeh but I'd like the option of borrowing ebooks from the library online in Dublin.

So basically an ereader that can read ebooks from the library online and has a large book store online that I can buy books from and to be able to read digital magazines as well.

I was tempted to get the Kindle Fire, but now that you mention its a hassle to convert library ebooks to the kindle, I dunno.

Drained_Empty

riclad wrote: »

nexus has NO sdcard slot, so
i ,,do NOT recommend it.
dont know if battery is user acessable,or can be removed .
so its a BIG no from me.

I can put anything on sdcard ,then put it in my phone,or in my tablet.
without using the battery.
for downloading.
say a book is 1meg,
you,d get alot of books on a sdcard 16gig,
16gig = 16000 megabyte .

samsung tablets well built,reliable, good interface,
good battery life,
easy to get parts CHEAP, if say in 4 years you need a new battery.

sdcard to usb unit ,
2 euro in dealz shop, mary st.

never used kindle,
calibre is easy to use,
i have it on my laptop.

using the settings in coolreader,app,
Glare is zero on my samsung phone.
i always buy matte screen laptops,
no relections,
set brightness to zero on my phone,settings,display.


i recommend the samsung tab,

i f you just want a basic ereader ,
a kindle,
theres the fire tablet from amazon,
it gets good reviews,
dont know if it has an sdcard.

I THINK in 4 years time, nexus, hard to get parts,
more expensive to fix than samsung ,
cos samsung sell millions of units ,
so any parts tend to be cheap ,
and easy to find in a local shop.

is this some kind of poem or are you writing this on a ereader device.

nucoder

That's interesting about the Kobo Glow Gamayun and Khannie,

It looks good, just had a look at the book store for it online, its big enough and the formats it can read is a lot larger than the Kindle.

I'm wondering does it have a replaceable battery when the battery on it finally does go kaput.

And also whats the battery life when its not plugged in 8 hours 2 weeks?

The way I have it is I read books on my laptop at the moment through Adobe Editions 2.0

I like the layout that Adobe Editions 2.0 creates where you have the option to highlight text and
create bookmarks.
I'm wondering if Kobo glo has an operating system that can download this particular software for reading books.

This is what I add books from the Fingal Ebook library online, It seems to work well.

wil

My 2cents
E-readers and tablets are still fairly different devices.
E-readers are for reading books, essentially text only - novels etc, equivalent of your typical paperback.
They use e-ink which gives a very different reading experience to current tablet or laptop screens.
They display a full page at a time, with a very slow refresh and are fairly useless for anything other than text.
Lit from the front for night reading , or unlit they are built for reading in almost any lighting conditions.
They have very long battery life, up to 2 months, depending on page turns.
Tablets are backlit and difficult to read in bright sunlight and realistically give max 10 hours reading.

e-readers have little or no scrolling, very limited browsing ability they are almost useless for magazines with lots of graphics or text mixed.
Too frustrating and slow to read on an e-reader

Small screens are really only suitable for shortsighted readers, reading a book on a phone is just not comfortable. I find most of the e-readers just a bit too small at 6 inch. They tend to have too few words per page, they feel like reading a child's book unless you can change the font to a much smaller one, then it's less comfortable to read.
The ipad mini is closer to paperback size in this respect.
Regular ipad is just a bit big and heavy for book reading.

In terms of battery life, screen size and portability, the ipad Mini is as close to dual purpose as I've seen, especially with the new retina screen.

So if you read a lot of paperbacks, get a kindle or kobo.
You get lightweight, long battery life, reading in any light, clear text, loads of books, and the readers have become quite cheap. The books though are still too expensive.

If you want to read magazines, pdfs, anything else, get the tablet of your choice.

nucoder

wil wrote: »

My 2cents
E-readers and tablets are still fairly different devices.
E-readers are for reading books, essentially text only - novels etc, equivalent of your typical paperback.
They use e-ink which gives a very different reading experience to current tablet or laptop screens.
They display a full page at a time, with a very slow refresh and are fairly useless for anything other than text.
Lit from the front for night reading , or unlit they are built for reading in almost any lighting conditions.
They have very long battery life, up to 2 months, depending on page turns.
Tablets are backlit and difficult to read in bright sunlight and realistically give max 10 hours reading.

e-readers have little or no scrolling, very limited browsing ability they are almost useless for magazines with lots of graphics or text mixed.
Too frustrating and slow to read on an e-reader

Small screens are really only suitable for shortsighted readers, reading a book on a phone is just not comfortable. I find most of the e-readers just a bit too small at 6 inch. They tend to have too few words per page, they feel like reading a child's book unless you can change the font to a much smaller one, then it's less comfortable to read.
The ipad mini is closer to paperback size in this respect.
Regular ipad is just a bit big and heavy for book reading.

In terms of battery life, screen size and portability, the ipad Mini is as close to dual purpose as I've seen, especially with the new retina screen.

So if you read a lot of paperbacks, get a kindle or kobo.
You get lightweight, long battery life, reading in any light, clear text, loads of books, and the readers have become quite cheap. The books though are still too expensive.

If you want to read magazines, pdfs, anything else, get the tablet of your choice.

That's some interesting points thanks I guess its a toss up between the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 and the Kobo Glo.

I was just checking the Koblo glo on a youtube review its not that bad when it comes to reading pdfs to be honest, and it gives you the option to read it like a book mode to bookmark certain parts, which is handy for myself for bit of info I like to hold onto.

You made a very good point about reading size.
I'll have a look into the ipad mini, if its more that €200 euro though, no thanks.

Gamayun

nucoder wrote: »

That's interesting about the Kobo Glow Gamayun and Khannie,

It looks good, just had a look at the book store for it online, its big enough and the formats it can read is a lot larger than the Kindle.

I'm wondering does it have a replaceable battery when the battery on it finally does go kaput.

And also whats the battery life when its not plugged in 8 hours 2 weeks?

The way I have it is I read books on my laptop at the moment through Adobe Editions 2.0

I like the layout that Adobe Editions 2.0 creates where you have the option to highlight text and
create bookmarks.
I'm wondering if Kobo glo has an operating system that can download this particular software for reading books.

This is what I add books from the Fingal Ebook library online, It seems to work well.

I can only speak for the Kobo Mini which I assume has a similar interface to the Glo, the Mini does have a highlight function, which I found a bit fiddly but then again I don't use it so might get more intuitive as you use it.
There is also a bookmark function where you touch the upper right hand corner of the page and it creates a 'dog-ear' to indicate the bookmark.
There is an inbuilt dictionary which you can manually type into or you can highlight the word and get a definition.
I can't really vouch for the battery life as the Glo has a backlight and mine does not, the battery life on the Mini is great though, I have mine a few weeks now and it's still at about 60% with 39.4hrs logged! That's just the initial charge and once again for a few minutes when I was adding more ebooks. I'm unsure about battery replacement but as long as you only charge it when required you should, theoretically at least, get years from it.

You can buy ebooks (epubs) from elsewhere for it too, not just the Kobo store.
Amazon is a different story though as I think you get a azw file which is like a mobi but with additional DRM protection which would have to be removed first so you could then convert to epub for reading, pain in the hole really. Amazon have also introduced the kf8 format which I haven't encountered yet but seems like the same deal.

nucoder

Gamayun wrote: »

I can only speak for the Kobo Mini which I assume has a similar interface to the Glo, the Mini does have a highlight function, which I found a bit fiddly but then again I don't use it so might get more intuitive as you use it.
There is also a bookmark function where you touch the upper right hand corner of the page and it creates a 'dog-ear' to indicate the bookmark.
There is an inbuilt dictionary which you can manually type into or you can highlight the word and get a definition.
I can't really vouch for the battery life as the Glo has a backlight and mine does not, the battery life on the Mini is great though, I have mine a few weeks now and it's still at about 60% with 39.4hrs logged! That's just the initial charge and once again for a few minutes when I was adding more ebooks. I'm unsure about battery replacement but as long as you only charge it when required you should, theoretically at least, get years from it.

You can buy ebooks (epubs) from elsewhere for it too, not just the Kobo store.
Amazon is a different story though as I think you get a azw file which is like a mobi but with additional DRM protection which would have to be removed first so you could then convert to epub for reading, pain in the hole really. Amazon have also introduced the kf8 format which I haven't encountered yet but seems like the same deal.

I guess the only thing to do now is to go into somwhere like waterstones and see what a book looks like on their screen.

The kinds of books I'll be reading will be larger then a paper back about twice the size so I'll be needing a decent bit of space, so that guy wil made a valid point about having some decent space with which to read a book that size.

nucoder

I think I might go for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.

One of the main concerns was getting an eye strain when viewing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 the same as sitting in front of a computer 4-5 hours straight

But since I won't be reading paperback books, just viewing notes from computer books and magazines, it'll probably be about 1 or 2 hours at a time.

And its 7" which is better for viewing the larger books. so I'll see.

scouserT

nucoder wrote: »

That's interesting about the Kobo Glow Gamayun and Khannie,

It looks good, just had a look at the book store for it online, its big enough and the formats it can read is a lot larger than the Kindle.

I'm wondering does it have a replaceable battery when the battery on it finally does go kaput.

And also whats the battery life when its not plugged in 8 hours 2 weeks?

The way I have it is I read books on my laptop at the moment through Adobe Editions 2.0

I like the layout that Adobe Editions 2.0 creates where you have the option to highlight text and
create bookmarks.
I'm wondering if Kobo glo has an operating system that can download this particular software for reading books.

This is what I add books from the Fingal Ebook library online, It seems to work well.

Hi, I am coming to this party fashionably late …

I am technically-minded guy but the Kobo Mini Touch 5” is so mind-numbingly difficult to get set-up and working with online Dublin libraries.

Where I am at in this is that I have using Calibre transferred the downloaded content from South Dublin library in epub format to the main memory of the Kobo. If I use Windows Explorer I see my book under a folder with the Author’s name, but when I turn off Kobo and disconnect from computer and the try to View Library on the Kobo itself I don’t see it.

There is little online help.

From one book lover to others I am pleading for help, especially from the likes of Gamayun, Khannie and nucoder who seem to have this cracked.

syklops

scouserT wrote: »

Hi, I am coming to this party fashionably late …

I am technically-minded guy but the Kobo Mini Touch 5” is so mind-numbingly difficult to get set-up and working with online Dublin libraries.

Where I am at in this is that I have using Calibre transferred the downloaded content from South Dublin library in epub format to the main memory of the Kobo. If I use Windows Explorer I see my book under a folder with the Author’s name, but when I turn off Kobo and disconnect from computer and the try to View Library on the Kobo itself I don’t see it.

There is little online help.

From one book lover to others I am pleading for help, especially from the likes of Gamayun, Khannie and nucoder who seem to have this cracked.

Just to get this right, are you ejecting the device from the OS, before you turn it off?

I push my books via calibre using Linux, so things are different, but you still need to unmount the device somehow, others wise things dont work.

Before you turn off the device, click the "Safely remove USB Mass Storage device" after clicking on the small Icon bottom right hand corner.

Gamayun

syklops wrote: »

Just to get this right, are you ejecting the device from the OS, before you turn it off?

I push my books via calibre using Linux, so things are different, but you still need to unmount the device somehow, others wise things dont work.

Before you turn off the device, click the "Safely remove USB Mass Storage device" after clicking on the small Icon bottom right hand corner.

Yes, I've the same set up of Linux + Calibre. I eject the device from within Calibre and it has always worked perfectly, there's a little arrow next to the 'Device' Icon on the top bar with a drop down menu containing an 'eject' option. When you eject the device and then plug it out it should update your device library.

I don't use library ebooks myself but I'd imagine that the have some kind of DRM that may be stopping you from viewing it on your device. Due to Boards policy on such matters I cannot advise in any detail however I know that DRM-removing plug-ins do exist for Calibre, so you should definitely check that out.

scouserT

Gamayun wrote: »

Yes, I've the same set up of Linux + Calibre. ....
I don't use library ebooks myself but I'd imagine that the have some kind of DRM that may be stopping you from viewing it on your device. Due to Boards policy on such matters I cannot advise in any detail however I know that DRM-removing plug-ins do exist for Calibre, so you should definitely check that out.

Hi,

thanks, you are correct I hadn't correctly ejected. Now that I have done that I see the books on the eReader, but I get an error indicating that the book isn't authorised with my Adobe ID.

I don't want to have to work around the DRM by any other means.

I understood from the following link http://www.overdrive.com/drc/ and from discussion with library staff that this should work i.e. I should be able to borrow ebook and for publisher and author to get a cut and for me to read it on my kobo. After all I can read it on my computer and it time-bombs / disappears after loan period expires so I would imagine I should be able to read on Kobo and for it to time bomb on that also?

Did anyone manage to view Dublin library books on any eReader?

Gamayun

scouserT wrote: »

Hi,

thanks, you are correct I hadn't correctly ejected. Now that I have done that I see the books on the eReader, but I get an error indicating that the book isn't authorised with my Adobe ID.

I thought you were just using Calibre? You never mentioned Adobe.
As I said I'm not up to speed with the lending of Library ebooks but Adobe DE authorisation seems to be a very common problem.

I'm afraid I can't help you with that as I don't use that software myself but the overdrive site has this page.

It implies that you just drag the ebook from the Adobe bookshelf/library onto the device and it authorises it and sends it to the device, no need for Calibre. Had you tried this?