Thread: PRS-300 Drag and Drop via Windows Explorer
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Old 12-20-2009, 11:19 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by jtdavies1000 View Post
Is it possible to use the Sony Pocket Reader without any software at all, if you just want to use free, unprotected books from the net?

Is it possible to plug the reader in via USB, and use Windows Explorer to drag and drop files (say from Guttenberg or Manbooks) directly to the reader?

If this is possible, what´s the best format to use?

Is it possible to do this type of transfer on multiple PC´s (ie a series of different internet cafés whilst travelling?) , or is the Sony Reader locked to one pc (the first you use) or anything like that?


If so this would be great whilst travelling at internet cafés, just to be able to downlaod and drag and drop free books rather than needing to instal software.

Thanks so much , James
I just answered in the other thread.
You can drag and drop files .
Raw Gutenberg files are not a good idea. They have hard returns in the paragraphs. The only device that can read Gutenberg formated "vanilla plain text" Gutenberg files is PocketBook.
There are, however many places where you can download the files formated for the Reader. One such place is this site. Just have a look at the top of this page. There is E-Books link.

You can read txt, rtf, epub, [some] pdf files and also proprietary Sony format BBeB with lrf and lrx extension.
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