Working in a school enviroment

[darrell milam]

We want to be able to use Digital editions in a school enviroment where a student is never setting at the same device and may use 8-10 different devices during the day and even more throughout the week.  The authorization processes is making this very difficult.  Is there a way around the authorization required to use ADE or a way to unautorize and release the book from the device so it can be brought up on another device by that user.

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

No, ADE is not really suited for use in an institutional environment - and especially so in one with roaming desktops.

[darrell milam]

thanks for your reply Jim

do you know of another product that will read epub files that may work in our enviroment

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

Do the books you are looking to use have DRM or not?

[darrell milam]

sorry for the delay

The library is OverDrive I do not think they use DRM.

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

hmm...  While Overdrive does offer the occasional book without DRM, the vast majority of their business (public libraries) definitely uses DRM.

If there is no DRM involved, then either ADE 1.8 (which doesn't force activation until you try to use a DRM book) in public beta on labs.adobe.com, FBReader, or Stanza may work for you.

If the books have DRM, and you can't have the computer have all the books (authorize to an institutional account), then what you describe won't work.

[darrell milam]

Thank you for all your help

I will look at these apps and also double check with the overdrive rep.

If I find a work around i'll let you know.