ADE in Android?

I recently discovered txtr, which supports epub books with ADE DRM. I say "discovered", but really I mean "noticed it on the list of supported devices/apps and gave it a try." Getting the books onto an android device is a little bit clunky, but once there, the books are readable.

To get the app/phone ready:

1. search for txtr in the market and install
2. start the app, go to the settings screen, and enter your adobe account details
3. also on the settings screen, select 'Sign up for free' to create a txtr account
4. close the app

To transfer books to the device:

1. plug the device into the computer with ADE
2. the device should now be recognized in ADE as a result of init step 2 above
3. use ADE to transfer the book(s) to the device, necessary to get the license onto the device
4. in a file browser, go to the Digital Editions folder and delete the book's epub file (txtr won't be able to find it)
5. safely disconnect the device from your computer
6. in a web browser, log in at www.txtr.com and upload the book(s) from wherever ADE put them on the computer (it's 'My Documents' for me)
7. now, finally, on the android device, open txtr, go to the 'archive' tab, select the collection where you uploaded the book(s)
8. download the book(s)
9. READ!

Like I said, getting books onto the phone along with a usable license is a pain. It would be nice if txtr could just find them in the 'Digital Editions' folder, since then you wouldn't need a txtr.com account or the extra upload/download steps. Still, this is the only method I've found that actually works for reading library books on my phone, and once you know the method, it's not that big a deal.

another vote for Android support for Adobe Digital Editions..ive bought lots of book that are fine o

n my pc..but i want to read them on an andrioide pad...it should be possible - seeing as we pay 

so much for the books

kindle have caved - come on adobe..pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

I download books from the library all the time and usually read them on my Tablet PC

but I have gotten them to work on my phones.

The mobipocket books with DRM from the library have worked on my verizon droid .  Unfortunately the vast

majority of the books are epub or pdf.  I think I used the 'iReader' app which allows you to put in your

mobipocket PID number both in the droid as well as up on the library site and then it will open them.

It will usually say 'unable to open' and then it opens them and loads them to the droid.

The old Adobe (I used to use version 6 to read ebooks but then Adobe screwed things up after that)

worked fine for sending things to my old Windows PC phone.  But when they came out with that horrible

ADE it didn't work anymore.  How can a company be so regressive to have had a perfectly good working

product like the Adobe 6 (or maybe it was 7) and then pitch it for the stupid current reader -- you can't

even change the font size for heavens sake.

I have been looking for an ereader and haven't found  the perfect one to satisfy me yet since I want to

be able to download library books as well as buy new books.  Also want it to read academic journal

articles without it messing up the formatting.  I have already purchased two ereaders and ended

up taking them back.  The Sony drove me crazy because of the screen redraw and the incredibly long

time it took to turn pages -- I read pretty fast and that was unacceptable in keeping a reading flow going.

I got the Libre by Alurtek and that did read the epub DRM but the formatting was terrible with line breaks in

all the wrong places.  Also it kept forgetting how to open a DRM and I had to keep going back and resetting

it.  It stopped working completely after 2 weeks so I took it back.  However, it did a fast page turn.

I think I probably will spring for a android tablet (been looking at the velocity micro ones and they look pretty

neat and a good price) but will still have the problem of not being able to read the adobe drm library books.

Carin

For what it is worth.  The Nook app includes ADE.  However, it seems that it doesn't support books with DRM aside from protected DRM books from Barnes and Noble.

another vote for Android support for Adobe Digital Editions. I'd love if I could read digital library books and purchased digital books on my HTC Incredible.

Yet another vote to please get an Android-compatible version of ADE

working so I can check out ebooks from my library.

OK i found this link to and Android app.

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/2010/05/introducing_adobe_reader_for_a.html

There is says it opens PDF files.  My question is still the same as the rest hear i believe.  If i get the Android Pad and download this app will it open and read the PDF e-reader files from my local library?  I dont want to buy the pad if this is not possible as this is the reason im getting any kind of e-reader in the first place.  Some here say it doesnt but the video shows them opening a PDF file.  Does it only open some document like files and not e-book type ones?

Bummer.  I've had an ebook on hold from my library via Overdrive and was looking forward to reading it on my HTC Evo.  Today the book became available, but it took quite a while to figure out I wasn't going to be able to get it on the Android.  Nothing I had read through my library's website, Overdrive, or ADE had indicated Android was unsupported.

For what it is worth.  I would like to say that I could perhaps understand not including Adobe Digital Editions on Android because of system limitations and what not.  However, would it not be theoretically plausible to create an Adobe Digital Editions reader essentially creating an ADE profile making the phone or app a device?  That is how the eReaders like the Nook and others that use Android as their OS do it.  Somehow they have an ADE profile file that does all the communications and opens the doors for the books.  Unless they somehow added Flash on those devices I don't see why it would be more difficult to create the same type thing for the Phone/tablet/netbook OS as well.

Just wanted to throw my vote into the hat. I am interested in an ADE solution for Android OS as well. Checking out books online is great, but i want to read it on an Android  tablet, many of which are to be released in the second half of this year. I hope Adobe is working on a solution.