[macvoiceover] Re: How to download an ebook from christianbook.com
- From: Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:37:41 -0500
cbdreader kind of works but i have mostly quit trying to use it. The books can
be read in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 and I recently discovered that in Adobe
Digital Editions you can paste them page by page into a Text Edit file but you
have to use vo-shift-c to copy; it will say it's copying the last phrase but it
gets the whole page. You can also convert the ebooks downloaded from
christianbook to some other format (I usually do text) in calibre. Calibre is
not accessible from within the application but there is a command-line command
that works for conversion; there are also some scrits for calibre that I
haven't looked at yet. Despite being drm, many of the christianbook ebooks run
through calibre's conversion just fine.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Oct 2, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Cheryl,
>
> I don't know if this is the same thing, however, I have never gotten the CBD
> reader to work on the iPhone, maybe I am out to lunch here. Hmmm, lunch
> sounds like a good idea.
> Keith Reedy
> keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I hope everybody will excuse that I am going to post this to three
>> lists but at least I am going to send separately to each list. I thought
>> this might be really helpful to some who may have been as frustrated as I
>> was.
>>
>> I have bought several ebooks from Christianbook.com. I could read them
>> online but aside from a copy-and-paste procedure that only worked on Snow
>> Leopard below 10.6.8, I could not download the books to my computer. Also,
>> when I tried it with Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 on my computer in Windows,
>> the fact that i had ADE installed wasn't even recognized but if I allowed
>> the ADE to be installed from Christianbook.com in Windows it was
>> inaccessible. Trying to download from the Mac was really frustrating because
>> you could see the message to close the window from the flash player but
>> couldn't access the link to download the item.
>>
>> I emailed Christianbook specifically about updating their version of ADE and
>> they wrote back suggesting I right-click. So I decided to try this on the
>> Mac. To my dismay, setting a keyboard commander command for right click did
>> not work even though I had the mouse lined up correctly; it just dinged at
>> me. Doing vo-shift-m brought up a seven item menu which didn't include
>> downloading the linked file.
>>
>> Finally, I went into System Preferences > Trackpad and under the "point and
>> click" tab, I changed the secondary click menu to "click in bottom right
>> corner". This time when i lined up my mouse on the "download" link for a
>> book and pressed the bottom right corner of the trackpad, and eight-item
>> menu opened with both "download linked file" and another to save as. I have
>> now tried this with three books and two times it downloaded the actual epub
>> file. One time it downloaded the urllink file which downloaded the epub when
>> opened in ADE.
>>
>> I hope this will be as helpful to somebody else as it was to me. I have
>> spent the greater part of the last two days stewing over this and trying to
>> get something to work to download ebooks from this site. I no longer need to
>> cling to Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on my old mac mini which threatens never to
>> start up again every time I shut it down! I again apologize for posting this
>> to three lists but I know that some people only subscribe to one of these.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheryl
>>
>> May the words of my mouth
>> and the meditation of my heart
>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>
>>
>>
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