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jcornel7 · 05-07-2008, 09:16 AM

After some very extensive research I went to the Sony store yesterday and used my company discount to buy a Sony Reader. Its a very cool device and I travel a lot for work so this way I can do my research and tech reading without having to open my laptop. (I hope)

If not youll see this thing end up on Ebay

Here are my questions:
1. I have a library of hundreds of technical Ebooks, however they are all pdf or chm. Is there some way to batch convert them?

2. Where do you get your fiction books? (legally or "not so legally" - e.g. George RR Martin, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Lincoln Childs, etc.)

3. Do you have to use the Sony eBook Library software, its a heap of dung as software goes?

4. I also have a ton of Word docs that I save to RTF however when I try to open them I get page invalid. How do I fix this?

OK I think that is all for now....Thanks in advance.

05-07-2008, 09:16 AM	#1
jcornel7 Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2008 Device: Sony PRS-505	A ton of Newbie questions - Sony Reader After some very extensive research I went to the Sony store yesterday and used my company discount to buy a Sony Reader. Its a very cool device and I travel a lot for work so this way I can do my research and tech reading without having to open my laptop. (I hope) If not youll see this thing end up on Ebay Here are my questions: 1. I have a library of hundreds of technical Ebooks, however they are all pdf or chm. Is there some way to batch convert them? 2. Where do you get your fiction books? (legally or "not so legally" - e.g. George RR Martin, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Lincoln Childs, etc.) 3. Do you have to use the Sony eBook Library software, its a heap of dung as software goes? 4. I also have a ton of Word docs that I save to RTF however when I try to open them I get page invalid. How do I fix this? OK I think that is all for now....Thanks in advance.