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29th Jan 2012

Adobe Digital Editions

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29th Jan 2012

Returning eBooks from a Mobile Device

If you’re using the OverDrive Media Console app to download eBooks directly to your smartphone, tablet or other mobile device, you can return them early and delete them from your device using the app.

Although you never need to return eBooks, returning them early lets you take out more eBooks if you’ve already reached the four-book limit. It also makes the eBook available for other users. If you don’t return books, they will automatically expire when the due date is reached.

Android

  • From the bookshelf, tap the plus sign + next to the title, then tap Return/Delete
  • Tap Return then Delete
  • The book is both returned and deleted from your device

BlackBerry

  • From the bookshelf, select the title you would like to return, then push the BlackBerry button
  • Select Return/Delete
  • Select Return then Delete
  • The book is both returned and deleted from your device

iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

  • From the bookshelf, tap the plus sign + next to an eBook, then tap Return/Delete
  • Tap Return then Delete
  • The book is both returned and deleted from your device

Windows Phone

  • From the bookshelf, tap and hold an eBook, then tap return/delete
  • Tap Return then Delete
  • The book is both returned and deleted from your device

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28th Jan 2012

OverDrive Media Console

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27th Jan 2012

Errors while Downloading or Transferring

The parameter is incorrect

Error messages such as “The parameter is incorrect” while downloading or transferring WMA Audiobook titles may be caused by a corrupt DRM folder in Windows.

Here’s how to reset the DRM folder:

  1. Open the ‘Control Panel’.
  2. Open ‘Folder Options’ and select the ‘View’ tab.
  3. Select ‘Show hidden files and folders’.
  4. Uncheck ‘Hide protected operating system files’.
  5. In the warning message you receive, click ‘Yes’.
  6. Click ‘OK’.
  7. Close the Control Panel
  8. Rename the DRM folder to DRM.old. In Windows XP, this folder should be located at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM
  9. Close this window and open OverDrive Media Console.
  10. Go to “Tools > Windows Media Player Security Upgrade”.
    If it will not run from the OverDrive Media Console, the security upgrade may also be run by going to (in Internet Explorer only) the following site: http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite

Once you’ve completed this, try the download and transfer of a title again.

Error 80040812

“We’re sorry, but an error occurred while processing your download.
Error code: 80040812
Error details: Failed call to fulfill the title.”

If you receive this error while attempting to download an Audiobook, then you have exceeded the download limit of 3 times. The counter can be reset if you send your library card number and the title to overdrive_support@noblenet.org.

Error 0xC00D27D8:

“Overdrive media error 0xC00D27D8: the license for this file has expired:

If you consistently get this error when downloading newly checked out WMA Audiobook titles, check the date and time on your PC. Digital Rights Management is time sensitive. If your PC date is way off, your file could appear to be expired.

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24th Jan 2012

Edith Wharton at 150

Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York city. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1930 she was elected into the Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was not only an accomplished author, but also a home and landscape designer. Her design aesthetic was fully realized in the creation of her estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton died of a stroke in France in 1937. Find our more about Edith Wharton on our page of links.

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23rd Jan 2012

Edith Wharton at 150

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), by Edward Harrison May

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), by Edward Harrison May

Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York city. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1930 she was elected into the Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was not only an accomplished author, but also a home and landscape designer. Her design aesthetic came to fruition in her estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton died of a stroke in France in 1937.

  • The Mount: Estate and Gardens — The Mount was Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox, Mass and is now a registered historic landmark. The Mount’s Web site includes a blog, detailed descriptions of the buildings and gardens, image galleries, and more.
  • The Mount in Lenox will mark 150th birthday of Edith Wharton — This article in the Boston Globe describes the Mount’s planned celebration of Wharton’s birthday.
  • For Edith Wharton’s Birthday, Hail Ultimate Social Climbers — This article from the New York Times sheds light on Wharton’s contemporaries, New York heiresses who married into British Royalty.
  • Edith Wharton Collection — The Edith Wharton Collection at The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, estimated at some 50,000 items, consists ofmanuscripts, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous personal papers that belonged to Edith Wharton and were part of her estate at her death” as well as documents related to Wharton that were obtained from other personal collections. Part of the collection is available online.
  • The Edith Wharton Society — This academic site is devoted to scholarship about Wharton and includes access to back issues of the Society’s “Edith Wharton Review,” links to digitized versions of Wharton’s works, teaching resources and a bibliography of recent articles about Wharton.
  • Edith Wharton’s World: Portraits of People and Places — This page from the National Portrait Gallery celebrates Wharton and her family through portraits and a brief biography.

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