Adobe Digital Editions: A great eBook reader
byWhile reinstalling Adobe Reader I stumbled upon a little surprise in the file menu labeled Digital Editions. I had no idea what it was but it sounded promising and I couldn’t help but click.
Adobe Digital Editions is a completely new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet Application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML—based content.
It takes hardly any time to download and install (here’s the link) and really is lightweight. It’s interface is quite sexy for Adobe, and the layout is super user & pen friendly.
All you do is select what books you want to be in your library and then they open in an easy to navigate/manipulate reading view. Very handy, especially for tablets and UMPCs that work perfectly with eBooks.
It looks like it’s currently labeled beta because it’s a work in progress and they want to find out what people want in it before finishing. Let’s petition for ink mark-up!
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Brilliant!
It is about time as well, thanks for the heads up!
March 20th, 2007 at 10:27 amYeah thanks, this is a neat tool.
Something weird though… on digitally-produced PDFs, I think the rendering is somehow better/clearer zoomed out than in Acrobat. But on some of my scanned PDFs, the rendering is far worse - very pixelated and choppy.
And I agree, markup would be a nice feature… heck, even standard Acrobat text highlighting and commenting would be great.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:46 amhmm… a bit slow for some reason on my computer… even though i have a reasonably fast turion64×2… I don’t know. otherwise, definitely nice…
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 amI like it, though it definitely needs ink markup. and some way to zoom on the thumbnail library view.
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 amI need ink markup!!!! whats a program that I can use PDFs or Jpegs to markup on
I am currently in a psychology course that has Course Notes printed from a company. I scan the notes in Jpeg format to save…I decided to find a jpeg to PDF converter so that I could use this program only to find that I cant write on it!!! ugh!
March 25th, 2007 at 2:05 pmPDF Annotator will let you mark up PDFs. I don’t think it will work on Jpegs, however.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:01 pmThe full version of Acrobat will let you mark up PDFs. And you can convert jpegs to PDFs and do the same with them. Probably one of the other PDF programs will do the same for less cost (but Acrobat is available for a student discount, which is how I got the full version).
April 12th, 2007 at 1:06 am