Adam Albright said:
I'm still waiting for you to explain what you think downloading means.
"Save" or "Save as" a conventionally used by programs that modify or create
files. Mobipocket Reader does nothing of the sort. It downloads eBooks
from online bookstores for reading, or optionally reads eBooks that you
create yourself using other software. It does not have a "Save" menu. It
is a reader, something like Abobe Reader. It does have an interface for
telling it where the "Library" is located, which looks like a conventional
Windows file browser interface.
I opened the Library settings interface, created a folder, told Mobipocket
to use that folder, and then downloaded seventy Megabytes worth of
previously purchased eBooks there. I have to do this every time I move the
program to another computer or set up a new operating system from scratch.
This is because Mobipocket creates an encryption key using data that
identify the computer and motherboard where you have it installed, maybe
install time, who knows. Then you go to their web site and fill out a form,
saying you have a changed reader device. On the next download attempt, the
eBooks are encrypted to your new device. I have done this maybe twenty
times, and I have gotten quite good at it.
The process does not work as expected on Vista, if you try to put the
library in Program Files, because the folder is "virtualized". However, in
the Mobipocket Reader file browser dialog the Library and the eBooks are
shown as being installed right where you intended to put them. What is
worse, is that Vista Search cannot find the files. After the one useful
post in this thread I was able to find them, but that was not your post. I
used to work in Microsoft system development. My reaction to this
circumstance is that the system developers took to smoking crack after I
left, or perhaps the pressure of all that malware, viruses and poorly
written applications drove the program managers insane. Whatever, I had to
move my Library location that I had been using for some years.
Your post was just a basket full of red herrings. First, you suggested that
Mobipocket Reader did not actually work with local disk files, that the
eBooks were some sort of virtualized pdf file out in cyberspace somewhere.
Although this theory was interesting, it was false. Then you disputed that
I had seventy Megabytes of eBooks. Your other suggestions were equally
risible. What had happened, is that Vista had saved the folders and files
in my local application data folders, and maintained virtualized copies of
them in Program Files. A question that remains is why Vista Search could
not find them.
I checked your other posts in this news group and in Google. You don't
actually know anything about computers, operating systems or people and you
are a big Rush Limbaugh fan. That is enough for me to discount everything
that you say. And here is the promised Spanish lesson. Eres un morón, un
Klugscheißer, vete a la reputísima madre que te parió. Study and learn from
your betters, and you may improve with time. Lárgate, y peques no más.
Saludos cordiales,
Earle
