Suddenly I felt like I was back in Windows 95! But… no worries, it installs and the program itself is entirely modern and up to date, as you can see when you launch it.

Don’t be put off by the ancient installer utility that Adobe’s using for this program! Go to the Adobe Digital Editions Installers page and you’ll see something like this:Ĭhoose the Windows format and click to download. Better yet, it works great with EPUB format documents. Turns out that Adobe (inventor of the PDF format!) has a free ebook reader for Mac, Windows, Android, you name it. The next step is to download the EPUB ebook reader. DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS It gets a really weird file name once downloaded, but I opted to rename it as christie-affair-styles.epub. I’ll grab the EPUB with images since it’s only 378Kb. Go to that page and you’ll see you can download the ebook in a variety of formats, with or without images: For example, some of Agatha Christie’s early mysteries are available for free, including The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Web site’s old-school, for sure, but Project Gutenberg has a splendid library of free – out of copyright – ebooks that you can grab and keep without an account, membership fee, or any other hassle. On the Mac side, you can use Apple Books, a free app included with MacOS, to read EPUB books, but Windows? Fortunately, one of the biggest software developers in the industry has a great ebook reader that includes support for EPUB format and it’s a free download! Let’s have a look, starting with grabbing an EPUB for experimentation.

Get a MOBI ebook and you can open it in the free Amazon Kindle app for Windows!ĮPUB format books, however, are a bit more complicated because they don’t seem to be supported by anything that is included in Windows 11 by default. Turns out that while EPUB is the most popular format for ebooks and other documents, Amazon created its own format called MOBI for its Kindle readers and apps. But what about MOBI and EPUB? Not quite so easy.

Everyone’s worked with the “Portable Document Format” at some point and that’s supported in a variety of Windows programs, including Microsoft Edge. There are three major ebook formats that you can encounter nowadays in the online world: PDF, MOBI, and EPUB.

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