Tuesday 13 March 2012

Tips for using e-books

Banding together : how communities create genres in popular music / Jennifer C. Lena


Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? "Banding Together" explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music.
 
As well as reading this book online, you can download it onto your desktop for a maximum of three days. Some publishers such as this one - Princeton University Press, have relaxed their publishing and copyright restrictions, which means you can now print 20% or copy 10% of the book if you are viewing it online.
 
If you are a Mac user you may have had some problems with e-books opening one page at a time in separate pdf files when you try to read online and scrambled content when downloading e-books.


If you have Safari 5.1

• download and use Google Chrome (in Google Chrome, type about:plugins in the address bar and check that Chrome PDF Viewer is enabled) and/or

• download the Schubert plugin http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

If you have Safari 5.0 or lower

Files downloaded from Dawsonera do not work with Preview, the default pdf viewer on a Mac. Users need to download the latest Adobe Acrobat reader and open the file using that program. To set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF viewer, CTRL-click on any pdf document in the Finder window, click Get Info, then choose Adobe in the “open with” dropdown list and also click on the “change all” button.


The problem of each page opening in a separate pdf window when reading online should be solved by checking the settings in Adobe itself. Open Adobe Reader and go to Adobe>Preferences>Internet and make sure that “display PDF in browser using:” is checked.


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