Implicitly, no common-sense understanding of what function ADE has on a computer would encompass general roundup and monitoring of one's ereading. Explicitly, it can exercise some kind of control over the 43 borrowed and purchased books, as for example it removes access to borrowed books after three weeks. In terms of user utility, ADE is doing nothing useful in tracking my elibrary. And no possibility of disabling that function. There is no opt-in or opt-out choice here. Yet ADE is monitoring my ebooks in the database of another program, Calibre, and it is doing so without user activation, initiation, preference, or permission.
Would it be okay for Netflix to monitor Hulu activity on your computer? Of course not. Would it be okay for Google News to monitor what news items are opened in Yahoo News? No. Would it be okay for MS Word on its own to poke around and find all possible text documents or other material that could be opened in Word? No. I ask this forum: Why is ADE poking around in a desktop and tracking all titles in a Calibre library? Not just on my computer: yours. I use the ever-evolving and useful Calibre to run my elibrary. But I won't use it for elibrary management and can't use it with my Kobo for any function. ADE has an exclusive role in downloading a good number of ebook purchases. It has an exclusive role in getting public library ebooks via Overdrive. There is no working relationship whatsoever between ADE and my Kobo.īut I have to use ADE. What syncing? ADE crashed the first time I plugged in my Kobo, and has crashed every single time, whether it is running when Kobo is plugged in or I try to boot it when Kobo is already plugged in, and this is also the case when no other ebook app, including Calibre, is running. (#2) suggests ADE "probably has to make a catalog of what's already on the reader in order to avoid conflicts when transferring new books." So what we have here is an inert ebook that exists in my system only in Calibre.Īnd is being tracked by Adobe Digital Editions.Ĭharleski (#5 in the other thread) believes that ADE is syncing annotations. There can be no bookmark, no annotations, no record of any activity other than its presence in the Calibre database. I did not open it in any ereader or even the Calibre viewer. I did not sideload that ebook into my Kobo at any point.
The ADE user has no access to these non-transparent functions. I have not instructed ADE that I want it to monitor every ebook it can find on my PC.
I have not informed ADE that I have Calibre on my PC as well as the desktop apps for Kindle and Kobo.
ADE has had no connection with this ebook. That is Calibre's number, not mine, not Kobo's. I downloaded this public-domain Stevenson ebook from the University of Adelaide collection via weblink and imported it directly into Calibre, which numbered it 1267. Error 2038, discussed elsewhere and at Adobe's ADE forum, is a general-purpose error. Story of a Lie - Stevenson_Robert Louis.epubĭrive L: is one of my USB ports. L:\Stevenson_Robert Louis\The Story of a Lie (1267)\The The Story of a Lie - Stevenson_Robert Louis.epub: