Adobe Digital Edition

fourcats

Can anyone help me out here........I need to load Adobe Digital Edition in order to use Borrow Box, an ap to read e-books from the Library. My iPad will accept ADE happily but Bolinda Digital (Borrow Box) tell me I have to use a computer. When I try to load ADE on my laptop I get the message that it is "not eligible for ap install". From what I have been able to find out thus far it is a huge problem which will mean that I cannot use the Kobo e-reader with this service. Any suggestions which do not require a degree in Computer Science would be appreciated!

mordeith

fourcats wrote: »

Can anyone help me out here........I need to load Adobe Digital Edition in order to use Borrow Box, an ap to read e-books from the Library. My iPad will accept ADE happily but Bolinda Digital (Borrow Box) tell me I have to use a computer. When I try to load ADE on my laptop I get the message that it is "not eligible for ap install". From what I have been able to find out thus far it is a huge problem which will mean that I cannot use the Kobo e-reader with this service. Any suggestions which do not require a degree in Computer Science would be appreciated!

What OS is on your laptop, Windows 7, 8 or 10?

fourcats

Wthanks for answering, it's Windows 7

bonzodog2

Maybe this will help?
http://www.cbrl.ca/Overdrive/Kobo_ereader.pdf
Not from experience. I have a Kobo Arc and just use a reader called UB Reader to read .epubs

mordeith

Are you installing ADE onto your laptop from here?
http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html

fourcats

I saw Overdrive on the Kobo website but reading purchased books isn't the problem. My problem is that the library service uses this Bolinda Digital site that you can borrow ebooks as one would normal library books. I have no problem reading their books on the iPad but can't on the Kobo because the ebooks have to go through ADE first which won't load on my laptop. All very complicated I know.

fourcats

No, I did look there for a solution, there appear to be a few, all very complicated. It was the ADE ap from Google Play I tried on my old laptop as Bolinda Digital don't support iOS.

fourcats

mordeith wrote: »

Are you installing ADE onto your laptop from here?
http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html

Just tried downloading it from the Adobe download page and I got a page telling me "download.adobe.com's server DNS address cannot be found".

mordeith

fourcats wrote: »

Just tried downloading it from the Adobe download page and I got a page telling me "download.adobe.com's server DNS address cannot be found".

Downloads fine for me. I've uploaded the install file to a public Google drive link. Try downloading from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B65tFE3rnJDhaW9aZTZseVlwcGM/view?usp=sharing

fourcats

mordeith wrote: »

Downloads fine for me. I've uploaded the install file to a public Google drive link. Try downloading from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B65tFE3rnJDhaW9aZTZseVlwcGM/view?usp=sharing

Just tried that, told me the file requested does not exist. And to Make sure you have the correct URL and that the owner of the file hasn't deleted it.

fourcats

Thanks everyone for your help. Found it had downloaded in my downloads folder, hope it works now!

fourcats

What I don't understand is why I was getting the error messages e.g. File doesn't exist, not available on your device etc. when all the time it was sitting in the download file. The app icon went straight to the desktop on the iPad with no messing about ..........IT grrrrrrr.

mordeith

fourcats wrote: »

No, I did look there for a solution, there appear to be a few, all very complicated. It was the ADE ap from Google Play I tried on my old laptop as Bolinda Digital don't support iOS.

You can't download and install an app for Android onto a laptop. You need the Windows installer file.

fourcats

You're right, something isn't working properly, thought I had downloaded ADE but it's only in bits. same for Bolinda Digital, Google Play tells me it's installed but it's not. How do I get Windows installer file?

ED E

Have you got cracked Adobe software on this PC?

Part of the cracking process will have entered all the adobe update domains into the HOSTS file as localhost, this will prevent you downloading anything from the adobe site.

fourcats

Don't know if I have, it's not just Adobe it seems to be all apps, although it has the banking app and a few others which I downloaded before I got the iPad.

mordeith

fourcats wrote: »

Don't know if I have, it's not just Adobe it seems to be all apps, although it has the banking app and a few others which I downloaded before I got the iPad.

You're confusing the issue when you say apps. Are you having problems with the laptop only?

fourcats

Yes laptop only. Would rarely use it but but these two apps need to be on a computer in order for me to download ebooks to my E reader, obviously a laptop doesn't qualify as a computer. Can download the ebooks directly to the iPad but to do so to the ereader needs to go through ADE first so need to have ADE and Bolinda Digital (Borrow Box) on laptop, there was no problem putting both on iPad. What is cracked software?

mordeith

fourcats wrote: »

obviously a laptop doesn't qualify as a comyputer.

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