Thread: project gutenberg supported by sony 505 ?
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Old 11-04-2007, 08:40 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by jbenny View Post
Only PDF and Sony's proprietary LRF formats are supported. No TXT, HTML, etc. That is why people here are posting all those LRF ebooks, quite a few of which started with Gutenberg content. At some point, the new epub format should be supported on the 505 when Adobe finishes porting Digital Editions to it.

It is the limited format support on the Sony that makes me seriously consider the new Cybook. And if you are needing a larger e-ink screen, the iLiad also has better format support than the Sony, although the iLiad costs a lot more.
The 505 DOES support text. So you can download PG text and read it as is. No idea how good or bad it would look. If it does not look good on the 505, the text won't look good on any reading device without cleaning up/formatting. Yes the 505 does not support HTML out of the box, but html2lrf does an excellent and easy job of converting html to lrf for reading on the 505. So html support is not really a problem. And taking a text file and formatting it into RTF or LRF is fairly easy. As of now, the Cybook Gen3 does not support RTF. The 505 does.
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