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Old 10-31-2007, 01:33 PM   #1
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Just received a Sony Reader...

Hi there everyone

I just got given a Sony Reader after a friend of mine picked one up for me while in America. However, I quickly discovered that because I live in the UK, and therefore don't have a valid US credit card, I can't purchase bugger all from the Sony Connect website

What are my options here? Are there any e-book stores compatible with the Sony Reader? Is there a way to defeat yet another pointless exercise from Sony? Or do I have a rather expensive paper-weight sitting on my desk until they decide to release it over here?

Many thanks and apologies if this has been asked before!
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Old 10-31-2007, 01:40 PM   #2
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Welcome to the club, I am also in the UK and ordered a reader off EBay.

Fictionwise supply content preformated for the reader. The reader will natively support RTF documents so any content in HTML can be pasted into word and saved as an RTF for a quick and dirty conversion. You can also purchase .LIT based content and convert it using tools like convert lit.

Sony are due to officially launch the Reader in the UK next year so you should be able to get content more easily then.

Theres plenty of info on the forum about converting content if you look around and even a section with free books. If you want older books then Project Gutenburg is also worth a look.
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Old 10-31-2007, 01:49 PM   #3
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Hi, and thanks for the nice welcome

What about encrypted ebooks? I downloaded a PDF file from ebooks.com, and it has DRM on it which obviously, the reader cant err... read. Is there anyway around this, or am I limited to free, non-commercial texts for the time being?
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Old 10-31-2007, 01:56 PM   #4
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Hi, and thanks for the nice welcome

What about encrypted ebooks? I downloaded a PDF file from ebooks.com, and it has DRM on it which obviously, the reader cant err... read. Is there anyway around this, or am I limited to free, non-commercial texts for the time being?
What I'm doing for my books, besides classics (which I can get here), is getting the .lit version & using ConvertLit along with lit2lrf (through the libprs500 GUI) to convert them to .lrf's For stuff from Webscriptions you can get the .lit & just do the lit2lrf part since those books aren't DRM'd. You can also get some .lrf books from Fictionwise as part of some of their 'Mulitformat' selections.
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Old 10-31-2007, 03:13 PM   #5
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Well a lot of the books I download from Baen I just leave as text and the 505 reads them quite well. I find no need to convert them to lrf.
Just my .02 cents worth.
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Old 10-31-2007, 03:56 PM   #6
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you can use US sony site just join you don't need to enter credit card information or your address, its easy to join and you should be able to use what ever credit offer you got witht he reader
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Old 10-31-2007, 04:13 PM   #7
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Well a lot of the books I download from Baen I just leave as text and the 505 reads them quite well.
I did the same thing for a long time, I just bumped up the font size and was off to the races.

I eventually switched over to converting them via BookDesigner to take advantage of cover art and header/footers. I don't do anything fancy like Tables of Contents, so the time investment is minimal, and of course I keep the RTF files as my archive copies.

Next time I go on a conversion bender, I'm thinking of trying HTML2LRF or LIT2LRF, to see if one of them might give me similar results with less trouble.
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Old 10-31-2007, 04:33 PM   #8
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There are conversion tools for PDF but I am trying to figure them out at the moment!

I'm not sure you will be able to convert an encrypted PDF with DRM on it. If you look in the content subforum there are two tools called pdf2lrf and pdftolrf. One is part of libprs which converts quite a few formats to the readers native LRF.

Both have GUI's available for Windows so they are easy to pickup and play with.

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Old 10-31-2007, 04:35 PM   #9
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I think you may mean pdf2lrf and pdflrf (no "to").
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Old 10-31-2007, 04:44 PM   #10
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Neither pdf2lrf nor pdflrf will convert encrypted PDFs. Password protected, yes. Encrypted no.
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Old 10-31-2007, 06:53 PM   #11
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So we can get password protected PDFs converted?
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Old 10-31-2007, 07:33 PM   #12
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I would imagine so, since it's entirely up to the pdf reader software whether to honor passwords or not. I've never actually tried with a password protected PDF, but I'm pretty confident it'd work.
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Old 11-01-2007, 05:05 AM   #13
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Thanks everyone, you've given me plenty to get stuck into
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Old 12-08-2007, 12:10 PM   #14
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Gutenberg books

Try http://manybooks.net/

I'm in a similar situation and I've been able to download many out of copyright material from there. You just have to download the Sony .lrf version of the books. They seem to work just fine...
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Old 12-08-2007, 04:57 PM   #15
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The Sony Connect Store insists on a US credit card. However, you may still collect any initial credit or free books on offer, simply by just not filling in the section on credit card details when you register your reader online with them.
In addition, a forum member, Leaping Gnome, very kindly offers to buy Sony Connect gift vouchers for non-US owners. He will accept Paypal.
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