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Anonymous
May 13, 2015
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Can't search a digital editions textbook - please help!

  • May 13, 2015
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I purchased a digital edition of a textbook (if it matters, it's An Introduction to Modern Cosmology by Andrew Little, published by Wiley) and it opens perfectly well in the Adobe Digital Editions software (I'm on a PC running Windows 8.1) and although I can type a search term in the search field, nothing happens. 

Any suggestions?  The reason I bought a digital edition was to be able to search, so this has been a problem.

Thanks!

Ed

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    shreya
    Adobe Employee
    May 14, 2015

    ok,please check below things:


    Please check the following:

    1. Open the file in Adobe Digital Editions.

    2. Go to File -> Item Info

    Check the file extension under location ,whether its pdf or epub.

    Are you trying to search using search list like:

    or Search box like:

    Thanks !!

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    Anonymous
    May 14, 2015

    I'm trying to search from the square box on the right.  The search on the left just searches the text doesn't do anything.  It's a pdf file ... that's what I got when I downloaded the book.  However, I can't open it in Acrobat XI Pro; it only opens in Adobe Digital Editions which I installed as instructed.

    Thanks!

    Ed

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    Anonymous
    May 14, 2015

    Mis-typed: The "spyglass" search on the left (the sidebar that shows the bookmarks) doesn't respond at all. 

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