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<p class="MsoNormal">Does your institution use a proxy server? EBSCO had to make changes so that we could download EPUB and PDF files. Like you, we had only been getting .ascm files until they made those changes. Customer support said that it was because we
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXT]: [Eril-l] EBSCO eBooks and Thorium Reader?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">(Never ever ever be one of a vendor's first guinea pigs...)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">Has anyone figured out how to download EBSCO ebooks with Thorium Reader?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">Yes, I click Download and select it gives me a passphrase, but just like with former Adobe Digital Editions it does not save it as EPUB or PDF, but as an ASCM file. And ASCM files are
<i>not </i>of the "Supported Extensions" in Thorium Reader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">Sorry, McGill, but on
<a href="https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/ebooks/thorium">https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/ebooks/thorium</a>, you indicate "...the file will have a file suffix of .lcpl". And the passphrases I am getting don't resemble "aurora-harmony-stellar-621" like you have
in your screenshots. Mine are like this: 6C2BZJZWEiYuJCXyBzw2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">Was there something I was supposed to set up in EBSCO and/or Thorium to get this all to work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",serif;color:black">Please let me know. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dan Michniewicz, MLIS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Seneca Libraries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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