Section 58. Borrow a Digital Edition

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Borrow a Digital Edition

Adobe has an online digital editions library demo that can be found at the following site: http://librarydemo.adobe.com/library/. Select a digital edition from one of the categories available, such as Children's Books, Literature & Fiction , or Mystery & Thrillers . Select whether you would like to borrow the digital edition for 1 day or 3 days. Then click the Add to Bookbag button. A Bookbag web page appears prompting you to download your eBook. After it is downloaded, a thumbnail of the digital edition appears in your My Digital Editions window.

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Return a Digital Edition

When you are finished reading the digital edition, you can return it to the library by clicking the Time-out icon indicated by a small clock located on the thumbnail of the digital edition. The Document Expiration dialog box appears and displays the expiration date, an OK button, and a Return to Lender button. Click the Return to Lender button to return the digital edition. This removes the borrowed digital edition from your My Digital Editions window. To close the dialog box, click the OK button.

To see when a borrowed digital edition expires , click the Time-out icon on the thumbnail of the book. When the borrowing period has expired , the digital edition is automatically "returned" and disappears from your My Digital Editions window.

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Open My Digital Editions

From the Advanced menu, under the Digital Editions submenu, select the My Digital Editions command.

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Select a Digital Edition

Simply click the Digital Edition thumbnail to highlight your selection; then click the Read button located at the top of the My Digital Editions window. If your library is quite extensive , you can select a particular category by clicking the categories drop-down menu; only those books in that particular category are then displayed.

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Select an Action

Another way to view and read your digital edition is to click the Actions button located at the bottom of the My Digital Editions window. Other commands available are as follows :

• Remove This action deletes the digital edition from your library.
  
  
• Email This command emails your digital edition to a friend.
  
  
• Save a Copy This action saves a copy of the digital edition to your hard drive.
  
  
• Check for New Issues This command goes out to the Web and checks to see whether any new versions of the digital edition are available to download. If so, it downloads the latest version.
  
  

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  Some publishers of digital editions allow you to turn on the Read Out Loud feature and have the digital edition read out loud to you. From the View menu, under the Read Out Loud submenu, select either Read This Page Only or Read to End of Document .

• Subscription Preferences This action brings up the Subscription Preferences dialog box, which displays the subscription ID number, when the digital edition will expire, and the option to check for a new issue notification.
  
  
• Visit Subscription Website Select a digital edition and then select the Visit Subscription Website command. A browser window opens with the website from which you downloaded the digital edition.
  
  

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  You can annotate digital editions with comments, highlight selected text, or copy text and objects in Acrobat. If you find a particular passage within the digital edition, you can also use a bookmark to mark its location.

• Send to Mobile Device If the publisher has allowed sharing of the digital edition, this action sends a digital edition to your PDA.
  
  
• Return to Lender When you are finished reading a borrowed digital editions, simply select it and then select the Return to Lender command. The digital edition is then returned.