eReader Change

When we were leaving Florida, Barb had just finished one the books in her series and I was in the middle of the book I was reading.

I looked up my book in the library and found it as an ebook.  So I downloaded the book for me to read during our trip back.  I thought it was great to be able to continue my book even though I was on the road.

When I got back to Ottawa, I looked up the next book in the Barb’s series up in the Ottawa library.  There was only one copy.  It wasn’t available and there were a number of holds on it.  However, I found that it was available as an ebook.  So I downloaded it and installed it on my eReader.

However, when I checked it on the eReader, it said File Can Not Open.  I checked my eBook and it also said File Can Not Open.  This was a change since I was reading it on my eReader the night before.

I figured they had changed the format of the ebooks at the library and my eReader was no longer compatible because it didn’t have a clock to tell the eReader to delete the ebook when it was due back.

I searched the internet for a way to change the format.  I found a 14 step process to unencrypt the ebook using Linux.  I stayed up late trying to figure out how it worked.  I couldn’t get the process to work because I missed one little sub-step. 

The next day I went back through the process and found what I missed.  I was able to unencrypt the ebook and put in on my eReader.  Barb never read the book that I converted but I was happy I could do it.