Digital Editions "sucks the sweat off a deadman's back"

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I was also forced to use this unforgivable piece of garbage for a law class. Not only is the program every bit as unpleasant to use as the above post(s) state, but sometimes the program won't even open on a 1-year-old laptop running Windows 8.1.

Despite the headache the program is to use, I thought that it would be worth it to finish the last 20 pages of reading for class today on my computer instead of having to lug the actual book around. Much to my surprise, Adobe Digital Editions managed to aggravate me with an even more critical flaw than the ones already well known.

I also find it ironic that the readings it's locking me out from are for an Intellectual Property class!

PS: I didn't realize until after I'd posted that this thread was started 8 years ago. How many times a year do I get updates from Adobe for Reader or Acrobat? Honestly, it seems like it's every other month, and they haven't addressed any of these DE issues in almost a decade. I would be thoroughly ashamed to be on the team responsible for this, and/or whomever decided to completely ignore users' needs in favour of the profiteering gluttons who have the gall to charge what they do for textbooks, with the "privilege" of access to the Digital Edition for 1 year. Did they think digital textbooks would be a fad??

I just spent $200 on a book that I am required to use for my work and I cannot highlight the parts I want. It's infuriating and it makes the book nearly worthless.

Then, to add insult to injury - there is no support and there are a number of questions about this same problem on this forum that have been unanswered for months.

I will never buy another ADE book again.

5 years later and it still sucks. srsly it's busting my balls. i can't scroll farther than 10 pages without freezing for a minute. it's horrible

I am just starting using ADE 4.0 and it sucks, you can't drag pages and pages are moving very very slowly when you try to scroll them, it is real pain, nothing has changed or improved I guess. I am using DL Reader for Windows 8, but for Windows 7 there doesn't seem to be good reading software available.

Really awful, practically unusable because of slow scrolling.

I am a university faculty member and am recommending to our library to avoid any ebook purchased that require ADE in the future.  I'd urge others to do the same.

I know!!! I absolutely cannot even fathom how this application is still in such a horrific state, and yet it is still being used by publishers!!

Adobe Reader can scroll and zoom normally, why is ADE so deficient in these simple functions? Isn't that the main function of an application like this? To allow one to view and navigate documents?? Zoom is locked to a couple terrible levels and does not allow free-zooming. Scrolling is slow and inefficient. Arrow keys to navigate randomly jump the page around and are inconsistent. Page links within documents bring you to a location where a portion of the section is cut off (and then you must try to use the horrific arrow key navigation to scroll up slightly, only to jump up several pages at intermittent keystrokes!!).

This unusable application is preventing me from learning!!! I will avoid ADE like the plague from here on out and tell everyone else I know to do the same!!

Five years after the original post and users are still expressing their disgust with this application.  Let me add my complaint to the pile:  scrolling, zooming, and navigation in general are absolutely terrible.  The application is unpleasant in general.  The last complaint isn't directly Adobe's fault but the custom published material I'm viewing in DE is incredibly expensive and this terrible app is the only way to view it.  On top of that, my ability to print has suddenly disappeared despite the content still being authorized.  Adobe, if you could spare 0.01% of the resources you are devoting to Creative Cloud to fix this broken application you would improve the educational experience of thousands of students.  Right now, ignoring this problem is actually harming education in some quantifiable sense for those who are forced to use this DRM app.

Like many others, I also bought a book of a few hundred pages for my studies. Imagine my shock when realizing that I can't highlight text, it just doesn't work; nor can I skip pages! I'm absolutely enraged!!!!!

Just used it for the first time and it is nothing but garbage, i wish i had tested this before buying a god damn book on google play. Horrible, how am I suppose to read this book now? anyone reading this, Dont even try ......