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I see that people have made these complaints on this forum for years and therefore I suspect that Adobe Digital Editions phone app is a neglected low priority product for Adobe. As a professor who requires students to read eBooks purchased by our university library, I'm disappointed since we are increasingly moving to eBooks and students are increasingly using their phones and wanting a read aloud feature. They are able to read the eBook on the ProQuest Clarivate website on their laptops without utilizing Adobe but the Adobe Digital Editions app on their phones only brings frustration.
First, there on the Adobe Digital Editions phone app there is no automatic zoom to remove the margins so one has to pinch to zoom in but then you can't scroll without the page zooming out again wildly until you "exit Zoom" so continuous reading is impossible. It is no use turning your phone to landscape either. So you cannot read many ebooks on the ebook reader. The answer given by Adobe is "the ebook was not formatted properly" but the book is in this locked acsm file Adobe Digital Editions format. (I can't take a screenshot because that's not allowed when using this app!)
Second, there is no Read Out Loud or Read Aloud function though I see people were pleading for it on this forum as far back as 2008.
Third, all of these functions work wonderfully on Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat phone apps. For most books, the universe library on the ProQuest website allows a student to download one chapter (per 24 hours) as a PDF (rather than the whole book as a Adobe Digital Editions acsm file) and you can read that chapter perfectly on Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat phone apps. They also have the Read Out Loud or Read Aloud feature.
How can Adobe in good conscience this many years later not have created a decent acsm file ebook reader? And it is mostly library readers who this affects. That is probably the answer but I hope ProQuest of Clarivate insists you improve it or removes you as a client and partner.
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