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Originally Posted by onebookie
I appreciate all the help I can get. I have so much trouble with the Sony Reader program Not Responding that I would like to be able to use Calibre. I finally understand that books I purchased thru Sony or borrowed thru my local library will have to stay in the Sony Library. Now I need to know how to direct all new books to Calibre.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of 'rights management'. For your convenience, publishers make doing perfectly reasonable and legal things difficult. What you want to do, legally buy and download a book to your reader, is one of those things.
You are talking about books with Adobe DRM (digital rights management). To the best of my knowledge, you must use either the Sony SW or Adobe Digital Editions to download such books to your computer, because while they are downloading them the programs also 'sign' them so your Sony device can open them. Calibre does not talk to any DRM-protected store or library, so it cannot replace Sony Reader or ADE. In fact, calibre doesn't download from anywhere, but it can happily import books that have been downloaded by some other program.
My understanding, based on nothing, is that ADE is more reliable than Sony Reader, and that it works with a lot of stores and libraries. Take this with a grain of salt, because I avoid Adobe DRMed books like the plague.