Saturday, October 26, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Loading Penguin's FirstToRead Galleys on a Kindle Fire
If you're anything like me, you were a bit dismayed to discover that the Penguin FirstToRead program doesn't offer Kindle formatted e-galleys. You probably also couldn't get anywhere with the instructions provided on how to get the books to work on a third-party app. Relax. I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do to get your book up and running on your Fire, without any confusion.
1. First of all, as the program tells you, you will need the Aldiko app. It's not available as of this posting through Amazon's app store, but you can change the settings on your Kindle Fire to allow you to load outside apps just long enough to download it from their site and install it (they have instructions, I'll skip ahead presuming you're already at that point to tell you how to get over the final hurdle they don't.)
2. You need to have Aldiko authorized for Adobe Digital Editions with an Adobe ID. If you're an Overdrive user through your public library, you already use ADE so all you need is your current Adobe ID and password to set up in Aldiko. If you're not, you need to get an Adobe ID, but it's really easy (and free!) to do.
3. Here's the important part, that none of the other directions I've found make clear. Everyone else says, "open ADE on your computer, load your .acsm file, and then copy that PDF to your device". DON'T DO THAT. I tried it countless times, and it doesn't work. Here's what does. What you want to transfer onto your device is the original .acsm file downloadable from FirstToRead. It won't want to work using the browser on your device (on mine it tries to open the file using Overdrive, which doesn't support PDFs), so you'll need to download it onto your computer first, then hook your Fire up to your computer using the USB cable and transfer the .acsm into the Digital Editions folder. Once that's done, go into Files on Aldiko's main screen, open the Digital Editions folder, click the file and choose Import. The book itself should now appear on your bookshelf.
Now you're ready to read! This should also work with any other DRM protected PDF books you may download.
1. First of all, as the program tells you, you will need the Aldiko app. It's not available as of this posting through Amazon's app store, but you can change the settings on your Kindle Fire to allow you to load outside apps just long enough to download it from their site and install it (they have instructions, I'll skip ahead presuming you're already at that point to tell you how to get over the final hurdle they don't.)
2. You need to have Aldiko authorized for Adobe Digital Editions with an Adobe ID. If you're an Overdrive user through your public library, you already use ADE so all you need is your current Adobe ID and password to set up in Aldiko. If you're not, you need to get an Adobe ID, but it's really easy (and free!) to do.
3. Here's the important part, that none of the other directions I've found make clear. Everyone else says, "open ADE on your computer, load your .acsm file, and then copy that PDF to your device". DON'T DO THAT. I tried it countless times, and it doesn't work. Here's what does. What you want to transfer onto your device is the original .acsm file downloadable from FirstToRead. It won't want to work using the browser on your device (on mine it tries to open the file using Overdrive, which doesn't support PDFs), so you'll need to download it onto your computer first, then hook your Fire up to your computer using the USB cable and transfer the .acsm into the Digital Editions folder. Once that's done, go into Files on Aldiko's main screen, open the Digital Editions folder, click the file and choose Import. The book itself should now appear on your bookshelf.
Now you're ready to read! This should also work with any other DRM protected PDF books you may download.
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