My library uses Overdrive. When I download the .ascm file of a borrowed book on my Win7, it gets the epub on my laptop, with the correct title, cover, and lending time. When I try to open it, however, it gives me an error, usually that there is an error in the file. My ereader can also not open the files (it's an old offbrand model, but it had no issues with the library epubs just a year ago). It worked fine with library books just a few months ago. In fact, I could read Gideon the Ninth just fine, but not its sequel Harrow the Ninth just a bit afterwards this year.
I have tried the following:
- Reinstall ADE (nothing changed)
- Redownload ascm, reopen ascm, restart ADE
- This has happened with all four library books everytime I tried between switching my laptop on and off
- I installed ADE on my parents' Win10 PC and opened the books there. I could open them in ADE (although images were a bit funky, one cover for example was completely squished) but after transferring them to my ereader, I still couldn't open them there.
I thought that maybe the .epub file format was changed, but according to wikipedia, the most recent version is from 2019, and I only got a library card December 2020 and experienced this issue first somewhen in 2022. So unless Overdrive changed their format only now (in which case I might as well throw my ereader into a pool of acid) this should not be the issue. But I really don't know what is. I wanted to try installing an older version of ADE but I can't find out how to do that for the life of me.
AdChoices