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Adobe Digital Editions... An engaging new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications.

Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet Application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports PDF and XHTML-based content as well as Flash SWF for rich interactivity.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.7.1:
  • Discontinues support for Adobe Content Server 3.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later.

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Developer:Adobe
Downloads:1,674
  - Version d/l:1,674
Home & Personal:eBooks
License:Free
Date:02 Jul 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel

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Jul 25 2010
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BORLOX  Fully embodies Adobe's habitual contempt for its users. Even leaving aside the intrinsically hostile nature of what it does, mere words can't convey how bad the interface is. It's nothing but a big Flash presentation. Like all Flash content, it's visual garbage. Need to activate an account? Don't bother trying to cut and paste your username and password -- you have to type them in, and get it right the first time, because if you make a mistake, you have to start over. Need to download a book? Don't plan on reading anything until it's done. Drop dead, Adobe, and take Flash with you.  
(Version 1.7.1)

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Mar 5 2010
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MACSWEEP  Adobe Digital Editions is such a load of garbage...!!! The interface is very unintuitive. Looks like they took a windows application and brought it over to the Mac.

The Page-Forward and Backward buttons are at the bottom of the window and are upward and downward -- that is to say vertically oriented. The natural way would be at the top and horizontally oriented.

Clicking on the scroll bar has no more effect that clicking on the up/down scroll buttons, and to make matters worse the scroll buttons are Windows-like in that they are at the top and bottom of the window with no option to put them both on the bottom in a Mac-like fashion.

The Adobe Digital Editions window will no remember it's position from one launch to the next. So, at each launch the user has to resize it. It also does not remember what size the document was last time. It starts out full-page, which may be fine on a low resolution screen.

The only reason to use this junky piece of software is DRM and encrypted ebooks. And that is the ONLY reason I use it.

If someone, anyone, knows of a better alternative that will handle DRM and encrypted PDF and maybe other ebook formats, please give a response here and a recommendation.  
(Version 1.7.1)

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Jul 2 2009

CHRISCHRAM  Version 1.7.1 has been out since April. I wonder why it's showing up on these sites today.  
(Version 1.7.1)

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