Adobe Digital Editions – Anonymous Activation

You said above: "You can join your existing account with the newly created account, which will allow devices activated with one Adobe ID (or Vendor ID) to read books previously fulfilled with another Adobe ID (or Vendor ID)." How do I join the accounts?

I ceraste  an account, and adobe ID (ADE4.5) , I bougth a acsm link, it doesn't connect to adobe server.

no way to solve it.

no support available, no chat starting... the worst site  ever found.

So I lost my money.

 I'll never buy  something from adobe.

BR

mine is grayed out and wont let me authorize user at all. please help

Good evening. I bought a book. Unfortunately it has an adobe drm that don't allow me to read it.

It is a loss of time. You will send me the epub file i don't want to download anythingmore from adobe. This is an order. And quickly.

Paragraph 2 of the main post by the helpful-wishing Adobe employee says follow the steps below, which is immediately followed by a screen pic that is partly illegible on my computers, so not clear what the steps are.  They appear to be whatever is in the screen shot and are not the steps that follow the mystery screen pic, as he writes after the mystery picture, "This (ie, the mystery steps) gives rise to the question ..."

He goes on to say, "You can join your existing account with the newly created account", as the solution to using different accounts with different devices/books, yet achieving portability.  However, he doesn't state how you join the two accounts, so doing so sounds like an operation improbable of success for an ordinary user.

I have wrestled over the years, with long gaps, with this system and used a great deal of time and spent money on books, some of which have disappeared into the ether and others of which I can access only on a retired device.  My latest version was buying books for Kobo, but I found I couldn't access them on Kobo, thought I was lucky to find them also in Adobe Digital Editions (which is a clumsy way to read) on a now almost disused old computer.

Like others who comment here, I'm not succeeding in using on multiple devices and it looks, as the Adobe Employee says, that I will need to re-acquire them form the vendors if I wish to read them.

Adobe doubtless earns revenues from the publishers for the security over copying that the Adobe sytem provides, or if the system was easy and not diabolical to use, should.  Yet despite the probable revenue stream, the system is non-functional.  In contrast, I've used Kindle on two Kindles, an iPad, at least 2 phones and a computer, with no problems moving from device to device as I read.  With Kobo and Adobe Digital editions I've never had time to read more than a few pages, as so much time goes into access that it is just too hard.

Last night I had some online chat, which was nice to get, though essentially unproductive.  The chat simply gave me links to reference material.  Some of it was totally irrelevant, about entirely different Adobe products.  None of it solved the problems, though I learned a bit more about how ADE works, but not enough.

I do hope someone from Adobe reads and does something about this.  However, I suspect like most big companies, Adobe will (unfortunately) have little true interest in their users' problems because so much else that they do does work, perhaps not as well as it ought, but works.  However, here's hoping, Adobe.

Regards

Stephen Page

I made the mistake of de-authorizing my anonymous activation. However, I only lost access to the book I fulfilled through that device (PC) and the other book I fulfilled through another device is still accessible on the PC. What does this mean in terms of my PC's Adobe Digital Editions? I know that I cannot access that lost book again, but can I re-authorize my Adobe Digital Editions with an existing ID this time like so:

Will doing this cause any problems? After my experience of loosing access to my book just because I was trying to make it accessible to other devices (but took the wrong route of de-authorizing my anonymous activation, which resulted in lost access), I'm wondering if I should just make a new Adobe ID. I feel like my ID is messed up now and wondering if it is?

Finally, why is the book I fulfilled on another device still accesible on my PC, even after the whole de-authorizing an anonymous activation situation?

Est-ce que vous pouvez m'aider plus en me donnant plus de détails svp et j'utilise un Mac et c'est pour ma liseuse Kobo. Merci.

Can you please help? I have ADE 4.5.11.187303 and a B&N Nook Simple Touch. Computer is Win10. Since moving to this version of ADE, I can download books from my library as normal, transfer them to the Nook as normal, but when I attempt to open the books on my Nook, it keeps attempting to connect to WiFi instead of opening the book. 

I did not have this issue on the previous version of ADE, but unfortunately, this is a work computer and this version of ADE is the only one I have access to.

Any advice?? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

I'm so glad you pinned this announcement. I had a hard drive failure and could not deauthorize ADE so it didn't count against my maximum authorizations. Customer service agent said he could not do it because "ADE is a free product we do not support" even though the ADE help pages say they should be able to. I never transfer DRM-protected content between devices, so this is a perfect solution for me (that and avoiding anything requiring ADE to begin with).

If you want to download a library book Adobe has made it impossible to download ADE 3.0 which was the only thing that worked for Kobo.  Solution:  buy a Kindle.  Seemless when you want to read library books. Obviously Adobe and Kobo have a deal so that library download won't work anymore and you are forced to buy overpriced Kobo books.  #boycottKOBO, #boycottADOBE