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Not with the current rev of the iPhone. While there is a multitude of issues with Apple not opening the iPhone for 3rd party development (file system access comes to mind), the real show stopper with the current iPhone is that there is no Flash support.
Jim Lester
Adobe Systems
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Anthony, you are right, PDF files can be read on the iPhone & iPad (and other smartphones) using apps from companies other than Adobe. This would be OK but there is a much bigger problem : ebooks in "PDF for Digital Editions" bought from, e.g., ebooks.com are NOT readable by PDF readers, not even the Acrobat Reader from Adobe. In other words, "PDF for DE" is not PDF.
I posted today a new thread to that effect in this forum.
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Finally it is possible to read library books on your iOS device. This is one of the features I have been looking for for a long time. Please see the CNET link below.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20023016-233.html
I have tested it and it is actually easy to get library books onto the iphone. You can just email the .acsm file to your iphone and then say open in .. Bluefire Reader and it will download the file.
The formatting is not ideal on the iphone. It leaves too much space around the edges and I wish the page turn would be slow as a move so that I can finish the last words on a page while already seeing the next word on the upcoming page. But those are little issues that can be resolved in the future. It definitely makes the ipad and iphone the most versatile reader now.
Additionally together with txtr this is the second app that empowers international readers to purchase epub books and read them on their iOS device. txtr does not read library books though.
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Ye, thanks man it works really great, the link was very helpful for me. really, the Bluefire Reader now supports not only ePub and PDF formats, but also the Adobe DRM used by most libraries. i think its like one of very best app built for reading ebooks on iPhones absolutely at no cost but i know one more website that i think, i must share with you which help me a lot to download ebooks for iphone and that is http://www.downloadebooksforiphone.com. thanks....
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Just an update - in case someone is still looking for this answer. This works for library books in the Adobe format. Get the iFlow Reader app. Also get www.iflowreader.com. Download a book to your computer. Open iflowreader.com. Import book - browse for the book you've downloaded to a file on your computer. Mine go into "ebooks". If you've set up both accounts (use the same user name/password for all your Adobe accounts), your book will be on the iPhone. You'll hae to click "download", it will open, and you can read!
Also, for PDF files, get the Good Reader app. It translates the files into a perfect format for reading on iPhone/iPod Touch.