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cannot open my usb stick which works fine on windows xp and has all of my files on it and planned to transfer to LQ; could not find a simple solution that i could understand to do

cannot get overdrive so can end up downloading my audiobooks from my City public library onto my mp3 players. these r both critical to me, so will have to give up on LQ unless get answers easily doable shortly as have been floundering for many weeks on these two problems



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These i consider critical for me not surrender and go out and buy windows 7

You seem to have made the most of your first post.

No one is forcing you to use linux. I use Windows and many other OS's everyday and I'm OK!


For overdrive have you seen this web page? Also one may be able to run windows app in linux with wine or codeweavers app. http://help.overdrive.com/customer/p...-a-chromebook-