![]() Check the location where your browser automatically saves downloaded files: • Internet Explorer (WIndows): C. [user name] My Documents Downloads • Firefox: Choose Firefox > Preferences (Mac OS) or Tools > Options (Windows). In the General tab, look in the Downloads area. Check the setting Save Files To to see the download location. • Safari (Mac OS): Choose Safari > Preferences. In the General tab, check the setting Save Downloaded Files To. Follow these steps to download eBooks from an eBook store and add them to Adobe Digital Editions. • Google Chrome: Choose Customize and Control Google Chrome>Options. In the Under the Hood tab, look under the Downloads heading. ![]() Check the Download location setting. If you're reading this, you've probably never read my blog before - you probably Googled for how to get your PDF file or eBook from Adobe Digital Editions onto your iPad or Kindle. As of the 22nd of July 2011, it's taken me about 8 hours to finally do it, and it was an extremely painful process that involved a lot of research and trial/error. I hope that this post can spare you some of that pain. Why Your eBook is Stuck in Adobe Editions So, a little bit of back story to help you understand why this is so convoluted: eBooks which are sold nowadays often come encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM). This is a way for publishers to restrict the way in which you use your downloaded content - primarily with the goal of preventing piracy. The downside, however, is that it makes it incredibly hard to do what you want with your files - for example - putting them on your iPad or Kindle. When you buy PDF eBooks from certain online retailers (in my case, ) they are advertised as 'PDF' - but they aren't really. You get a download of an ACSM file, which you have to open through Adobe Digital Editions to download your eBook. Once it's downloaded, it's locked into Digital Editions, and there is no compatibility with iPad or Kindle. The only way to get the file onto your iPad or Kindle is to get it out of Adobe Digital Editions, so it functions as a normal PDF or EPUB file. Digital Editions saves a PDF file to your hard drive (/Documents/Digital Editions/Your_eBook.pdf) but if you try to open this file with any application other than Digital Editions, it will throw up errors or say that the file is corrupted. Usually something like: 'The file [xxx] could not be opened. It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize.' This is because the PDF file is encrypted with Adobe Adept DRM, which is surprisingly difficult to get around. We need to remove the DRM from the file in order to transfer it to a Kindle, or import it into iTunes. Unfortunately, most DRM removal software will not be able to handle this type of file.
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