Section 59. View a Digital Edition


59. View a Digital Edition

Before You Begin

56 Activate Your Digital Editions Account

57 Download a Digital Edition


See Also

58 Borrow a Digital Edition


Now that you have selected your digital edition, you can view and read it. When traveling or away from your computer, it's convenient to be able to copy your digital editions to either your laptop or PDA.

1.
Open My Digital Editions

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

2.
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.

3.
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.

    TIP

    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.

    TIP

    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.

TIP

One nice feature of digital editions is that they automatically revert to the last open page when you reopen them. This makes it easier to read long files, such as books and magazines, across multiple sessions.




Adobe Acrobat 7 in a Snap
Adobe Acrobat 7 in a Snap
ISBN: 0672327015
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 139
Authors: Shari Nakano

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