I am having problems adding books on new IMac

[James Greystone]

I installed ADE on a PC running windows 7 and it works fine.

I installed ADE on a new Mac and when I try and add a book that I downloaded into the library from within ADE, it shows me the books I have downloaded however they are Greyed out and I can not select any of them?

The only way I am able to import the books is from outside of ADE. I have to navigate to the downloads folder, find the book and click on it. It then imports the book into ADE.

On the Mac I just want to be able to read it on the computer, and NOT transfer it to a reader. I am setting this up for a Senior.

This makes no sense as it should work as easily as on the PC?

Can someone perhaps chime in on this, as I am not as familiar with MAC as I am with PC's and wonder if I have missed something.

Thanks.

[sjpt · Accepted solution]

Are they DRM (digital rights management) books?

If so, have you authorized the Mac with the same Adobe ID as you authorized the PC and aquired the books?

If not, I suggest using the far superior free software Calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com/ )

Will it even let you ask about the books on the Mac?

Right click and 'item info', or menu/File/Item Info, or ctrl-I on PC, probably cmd-I on Mac?

[James Greystone]

Now that you mention it, that's odd when I installed it on the PC it asked me to authorize the computer as soon as I installed the software which I did.

I don't actually remember if the MAC version asked me to authorize or not?

Thanks for the assistance. I will check if it is authorized when I go back in the next few days and report back.

It just seemed odd that I am able to add it from outside of the program.

[James Greystone]

Just an update. I was just at the site, and I took a look at the software and the mac was not authorized. I authorized the Mac and the books are now able to be added to the library.

Thanks for for the assistance.