Adobe Digital Editions for Windows

User Reviews

• Worse than this website

  MrBigNog5/12/2018

  Pros

  >Doesn't crash your computer >Isn't as bad as AIDs

  Cons

  >Screen times out constantly >Touching the arrow keys to scroll up or down moves you to the very bottom/top every time >Touch the scroll bar does the same >Using scroll keys does the same >In other words, ever single page you're going to have to scroll back to where you started as soon as you have to move the viewing section, assuming it's timed out which occurs after 15sec.

  Summary

  Terrible.

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• Love it. Convenient, well organized, great program.

  Jason Boone10/13/2015

  Pros

  Simple, well organized, user interface. The library helps keep your epub files neat and easy to find and use. I just think it's the perfect program. No nonsense. No confusion. Just straight-forward and easy to use.

  Cons

  Doesn't read PDFs, which I was fully aware of upon installation. No matter, I use Nuance to read my PDFs. Non much to say as far as the cons.

  Summary

  I highly suggest this program if you need a program to read epub files. It organizes your library and has a minimal, but essential, user interface. Try it out.

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• not even worth trying. less than garbage

  my_name_is_Fil9/25/2015

  Pros

  pros...it was free... no wait it cost time... pros? i never met any of the developers.

  Cons

  the software

  Summary

  its pretty bad, slow, nazi drm, slow, it has trouble flipping pages on a 200 pp university manual on a quad core 4ghz+ system. awesome. make sure you own a super computer and many many vats of patience.

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• Awful, horrible, garbage.

  HTRC4/26/2014

  Pros

  Sometimes you can actually read and move to another page - amazing!!!

  Cons

  Complete garbage ware. Either this was developed by chimpanzees, or they purposely set out to design the world's worst e-reader software.

  Summary

  It's so bad, you should actually consider not buying or reading a particular book if it's available only in Adobe Digital Editions.

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• Garbage - Worse than useless.

  jjhardesty5/2/2013

  Pros

  Installing and then deleting gives you something to do

  Cons

  Buggy, refuses to open ASCM files

  Summary

  Version 1.7 was OK, not the greatest, not user friendly, difficult to use initially, but it shines when compared to version 2.0. This latest version offers nothing to recommend it. Never opened an ascm file for me: error messages say my device is 'not registered' (when I've been using it with v1.7 for about 2 years) or there is a missing or corrupt file, when my procedure was the same as it had been with the earlier version. Always some reason why it is unable to do the job it was supposed to do. Atotal waste.

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• Slow to respond

  wedgehog4/5/2013

  Pros

  Functional

  Cons

  Unpleasant reading experience

  Summary

  viewer for DRM protected books

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• Simple and useful

  Solun13/18/2013

  Pros

  Simplicity of use (imediatelly understood UI)

  Cons

  Better on larger screens (not that great on my 18,5 inch display) You have to have an Adobe account (free)

  Summary

  Fast, easy and free way to view your ebooks on PC

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• Major flaw:Broken for more than one user on a computer

  MarkTwainWasRight1/19/2013

  Pros

  Looks nice.

  Cons

  Not very robust.

  Summary

  If you have multiple users on the same computer, ADE will not recognize plugged in eBook readers; eBook bookshelves disappear. (no permutation of plugging and restarting the program fixes this.)

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• Too many limitations.

  7LaVerne12/11/2012

  Pros

  None that justify using this program rather than Calibre.

  Cons

  Customizable options are few. NG for PDF.

  Summary

  Following another posting's recommendation, I tried Calibre. Infinitely superior.

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• A good epub reader but still no good for pdf

  Bubbecus10/17/2012

  Pros

  I like the new theme. For epub there is good flipping of the 'view' pages.

  Cons

  Even the manual is in epub and not pdf. Shame adobe!! Even the C-Net screen view is out of date

  Summary

  May as well stay with Calibre.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Oct 17, 2012<p/>C-Net. Can't even select the version (2) for this review.

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